Shadrinsk

The Iset River defines the setting of Shadrinsk — its valley has long provided a route and a focus for settlement in the Trans-Urals of Kurgan Oblast. Founded in 1662 as Shadrinskaya Sloboda, the town developed as a regional commercial centre and received town status in 1781. Streets near the centre retain the measured scale of a nineteenth-century provincial town, with brick merchants’ houses and public buildings. The eighteenth-century Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral is one of its best-known historic landmarks. Shadrinsk is also associated with the Shadrinsk goose, a traditional Russian breed developed locally. Place Shadrinsk in its wider Trans-Ural context by browsing webcams across Kurgan Oblast.

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