ASIRIS wins competition with Pureh village conservation project

ASIRIS won the first place in the nomination “The best concept of managing a historical settlement” – the award was brought by the project to preserve the heritage of the village of Pureh in the Chkalovsk district, the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin said.

Pureh has been known since the XVII century: for the victory of the militia of 1611-1612, the village was granted to Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, and it became his patrimony. And from 2026 Pureh entered the Golden Ring of Russia.

ASIRIS has been working on the development of the village for a long time - a tourist and design code, a local merch and a pedestrian audio guide have already been created. Since 2024, together with the "School of Restoration" and volunteers of the "Obela" have put in order 52 historic wooden houses with the preservation of carved decor, including the former school, built at the expense of merchant Dmitry Sirotkin in 1902.

According to Nikitin, the region knows where to go behind the historical streets with carvings thinner than lace: it is here that copper bells sound, the glory of which from the XVI All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1896 reached Paris and Brussels. In Purekha, the most valuable architectural monuments are preserved - the Transfiguration Cathedral of the XVII-XIX centuries with unusual vaults and icons and the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit of 1905.