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==History== Founded in 1631 as '''Irbeyevskaya Sloboda''' ({{lang|ru|Ирбе́евская слобода́}}),<ref name="Matveyev">''Geographical names of the Urals: Short Toponymic Dictionary'' ({{lang|ru|Матвеев А. К. Географические названия Урала: Краткий топонимический словарь. Свердловск, 1987}})</ref> its name was changed in 1662 to Irbit.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} It was granted official town status by [[Catherine the Great]] in 1775 for the town's loyalty to the Empress during the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of 1773–1774.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} In 1776, she awarded the town its official crest. In the 19th century, the [[Irbit Fair]] was an important event for the trade in [[Siberia]]n [[fur]] and [[China|Chinese]] [[tea]].
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