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{{Short description|Town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia}}
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'''Alapayevsk''' ({{langx|ru|Алапа́евск}}) is a [[types of inhabited localities in Russia|town]] in [[Sverdlovsk Oblast]], [[Russia]], located at the [[confluence]] of the [[Neyva River|Neyva]] and Alapaikha rivers. Population: {{ru-census2010|38,192|;}} 44,263 ([[Russian Census (2002)|2002 census]]);<ref name="2002Census">{{ru-pop-ref|2002Census}}</ref> 50,060 ([[Soviet Census (1989)|1989 census]]);<ref name="1989Census">{{ru-pop-ref|1989Census}}</ref> 49,000 (1968).

==History==
Alapayevsk is one of the oldest centers of [[ferrous metallurgy]] in the [[Ural Mountains|Urals]] with the first [[factory]] built in 1704. The town proper was founded in 1781.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Историческая справка |trans-title=Historical background |url=https://moalapaevsk.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=42 |access-date= |website=moalapaevsk.ru |language=ru-ru}}</ref>

===Murder of Russian Imperial family members===
{{see|Martyrs of Alapayevsk}}
On July&nbsp;18, 1918, the day after the shooting at [[Yekaterinburg]] of the last tsar, [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas&nbsp;II]] and [[shooting of the Romanov family|family]], other members of the extended Russian royal family, the [[House of Romanov|Romanovs]], including a [[nun]], and their servants, met a brutal death there being thrown down a mineshaft near Alapayevsk by the local [[Bolshevik]]s on the orders of the Ural Soviet.{{Efn-ua|Member of the Presidium of the Ural Regional Soviet [[Georgy Safarov]] oversaw the killings}} All except [[Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia|Grand Duke Sergey Mikhaylovich]] (who was the first one to die; he was shot before they could throw him in) survived the fall, hand-grenades were thrown down after them killing Grand Duke Sergey's secretary, Fyodor Remez. Other victims died a slow death including the [[Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia]], [[Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia]], [[Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia]] and [[Vladimir Pavlovich Paley|Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley]], and [[Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna]] (born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine). Grand Duchess Elizabeth was the sister of Empress Alexandra; when her husband, the Tsar's uncle, was murdered in 1905, she gave all her wealth to the poor and became a nun, but she was shown no mercy.<ref name="timemag">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080604141845/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762269-2,00.html "Death at Ekaterinburg"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. April 22, 1935. Archived from [https://web.archive.org/web/20080604141845/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762269-2,00.html the original] June 4, 2008.</ref> Killed with her was a nun who had accompanied her - [[Varvara Yakovleva]].

The bodies were recovered from the mine by the [[White Army]] in September 1918. The bodies were placed in coffins and despite the struggles between the Whites and the opposing [[Red Army]], they were moved to the far east. Grand Duchess Elizabeth's remains were ultimately taken to [[Jerusalem]], where they were laid to rest in the [[Church of Maria Magdalene]], while the coffins of the others were interred in a former Russian Mission in [[Beijing]], now beneath a parking area.

In 1981, Grand Duchess Elizabeth was canonized by the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]], and in 1992 by the [[Moscow Patriarchate]].

Alapayevsk is a place of pilgrimage to the memory of Grand Duchess Elizabeth.<ref name="martyrs">[http://life.orthomed.ru/st-elizabeth/alap_e.htm Life Orphomed Russia]</ref>

==Administrative and municipal status==
Within the [[subdivisions of Russia#Administrative divisions|framework of the administrative divisions]], it is, together with nine [[types of inhabited localities in Russia|rural localities]], incorporated as the '''[[City of federal subject significance|Town]] of Alapayevsk'''<ref name="OKATO">{{OKATO reference|65 403}}</ref>—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the [[administrative divisions of Sverdlovsk Oblast|districts]].<ref name="SverdlovskO_adm">Law #30-OZ</ref> As a [[subdivisions of Russia#Municipal divisions|municipal division]], the Town of Alapayevsk is incorporated as '''Alapayevsk Urban Okrug'''.<ref name="SverdlovskO_mun">Law #85-OZ</ref>

==Transport==
The [[Alapayevsk narrow-gauge railway]] serves the communities around Alapayevsk.

==Miscellaneous==
Local orphanage (Alapaevsk Family-Type Orphanage) proclaims itself as the largest in the Urals.<ref name="detsk">{{Cite web |url=http://alapaevski.detskidom.ru/eng/ |title=Alapaevsk Orphanage. Russia, Sverdlovsk region |access-date=April 13, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724090315/http://alapaevski.detskidom.ru/eng/ |archive-date=July 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

==Notable people==
The composer [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] spent a part of his childhood in Alapayevsk.

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==External links==
*[https://moalapaevsk.ru/ Official website of Alapayevsk] {{in lang|ru}}
*[https://alapaevsk.jsprav.ru/ Directory of organizations in Alapayevsk] {{in lang|ru}}

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