Paraskeva Pyatnitsa Chapel

In 1805 a merchant named Novikov constructed a wooden chapel on that place out of gratitude for being saved from a whirlpool of rapids.

Another version about the construction of the building states that the local inhabitants built the chapel due to the deliverance of their ancestors from their enemies.

In 1852 the bishop of Tomsky, Afanasy, gave permission to the city Duma for the building of a stone chapel.

Nabalov from the funds of the prominent owner of gold mines and patron of art, Pyotr Kuznetsov.

In 1887 the Russian scientist and radio inventor Aleksander Popov observed the solar eclipse from the chapel.