# Lalsk

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**Lalsk** (Russian: Лальск) is an [urban locality](/source/Types_of_inhabited_localities_in_Russia) (an [urban-type settlement](/source/Urban-type_settlement)) in [Luzsky District](/source/Luzsky_District) of [Kirov Oblast](/source/Kirov_Oblast), [Russia](/source/Russia), located 27 kilometers (17 mi) northeast from [Luza](/source/Luza,_Luzsky_District,_Kirov_Oblast), the [administrative center](/source/Administrative_center) of the district. Population:

## History

It takes its name from the [Lala River](/source/Lala_River_(Russia)), a [tributary](/source/Tributary) of the [Luza](/source/Luza_River). The settlement was established by the [Novgorodians](/source/Novgorod_Republic) fleeing east from [Ivan the Terrible](/source/Ivan_the_Terrible) after the [Massacre of Novgorod](/source/Massacre_of_Novgorod).[1] It was a large trading outpost in the eastern part of the [Russian North](/source/Extreme_North_(Russia)) in the late 17th and 18th centuries. The earliest stone church was consecrated in 1711.

Lalsk had town status between 1779 and 1927 and served as the administrative center of [Lalsky District](/source/Lalsky_District) between 1924 and 1963.

## Architecture

Lalsk is notable for a remarkable cluster of 18th-century Orthodox churches in various stages of disrepair:[2]

- The Cathedral of Christ's Resurrection (1698–1715) with a [campanile](/source/Campanile) dating from 1729
- The nearby Church of the Annunciation for winter services (1732–1762)
- The partly ruined Church of the Epiphany (1711)
- The Church of St. John the Baptist (1714)
- The Church of the Savior's Transfiguration (1730–1732)
- The Church of the Virgin's Dormition (1791–1796)

## References

1. ["срок регистрации доменного имени www.lalsk.ru истек"](http://www.lalsk.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51:history-vv-lalsk&catid=36:lalsk-history&Itemid=61)

1. ["Муниципальные образования - Лузский район - Памятники истории и культуры"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120426081755/http://www.municipal.ako.kirov.ru/luza/tourism/monument/). *www.municipal.ako.kirov.ru*. Archived from [the original](http://www.municipal.ako.kirov.ru/luza/tourism/monument/) on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2022.

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