"On the way to..." /Ishim/

____On the road to Ishim, there are several other villages on both sides of it. Their names are difficult to remember. And they all look the same: small, but shabby.
________Ishim is not remarkable, at first glance. It is located on the border of the Tomsk and Kemerovo regions, 80 kilometers from Tomsk. The Yaya river flows nearby. Today there are about 400 people living here. The village was founded in 1726 by settlers-peasants from the Ishim parish of Tobolsk province.
_____But there is one attraction here-the legendary Church of Kuzbass-the temple of the image of Jesus Christ not made with hands.
The first wooden Church appeared here in the 18th century. In the following years, the village developed, the Siberian highway passed nearby, and the wooden Church could no longer accommodate all the believers from neighboring settlements. The Church of the uncreated Image of Jesus Christ was laid in 1803, and completed due to lack of funds for construction only in 1841.
In addition to the architectural value with decorative and plastic techniques of "Siberian Baroque", the temple is also famous for the fact that it was visited by Nicholas II in July 1891, returning from Japan. There were exiled Decembrists in the Church: Anton Chekhov, who was heading to Sakhalin, and Alexander Radishchev, who performed the Ishim prayer service in honor of the Russian victory in the Crimean war.
After the revolution, on February 23, 1930, the Bolsheviks removed the bells, looted valuables, closed the Church itself and converted it into a grain warehouse. The building began to collapse. And a few years ago, communal workers digging a trench under it found the remains of priests who were shot by the Bolshevik Church in ruins, although it is put on state protection as an architectural monument.
___For several years in a row, the crusaders from Anzhero – Sudzhensk come here to pray and worship at the Shrine, always coming in advance to improve this historical place at least a little – mow the grass, collect garbage.
___WHAT about the residents themselves?
And the residents themselves do not think much about this problem. It seemed to me that they were not thinking about coronovirus, the fall of the ruble, or the zeroing of presidential terms. And not because they are all deep purple... no... it seems to me that they are simply afraid to think about all this, understanding the full scale of the hopelessness that surrounds them.....

And they are surrounded by a complete reset of the village!