Street racer strikes pedestrians in Moscow, one dies, five injured.

MOSCOW, September 19 (Itar-Tass) -- A street racer struck a group of
pedestrians in southern Moscow. One died and five were injured in the
accident, a city police source told Itar-Tass.
A race of cars took place on Promishlennaya Street in the industrial
zone overnight. The accident occurred in the race, the source said.
According to the preliminary information, the injured people were
spectators. The driver was not hurt.
Traffic policemen have arrived at the site.



.Patriarch Kirill consecrates cathedral in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.



PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, September 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Patriarch Kirill
of Moscow and All Russia on Sunday consecrated the Trinity Cathedral in
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
The snow-white church with five golden domes that ia situated between
two active volcanoes and surrounded by hills has become a very beautiful
and architecturally dominating site in the city. It is well seen from any
place of the city and the Avacha Bay, around which the city has been built
since 1740.
It is the fifth and the largest cathedral in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
More than a thousand people gathered for the consecration ceremony in
the sunny, but windy, day of the Kamchatka golden autumn. Representatives
of federal and local authorities attended the ceremony.
The church construction was financed with donations. About 50 million
roubles were spent to build it, and 7.4 million of the sum were donated by
Kamchatka residents.
The widely-known choir of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery sang during
the ceremony and the first liturgy service.
The cathedral consecration will take its place in history not only of
Kamchatka, but also entire Orthodox Russia, the Kamchatka Territory's
Governor Alexei Kuzmitsky said.
The cathedral is designed as an ancient Russian church. The
42-metre-high building will stand firm in a 10-point earthquake. It has a
capacity for 3,000 people. There is no other cathedral like this in Russia.
The Orthodox faith began to spread on Kamchatka more than 300 years
ago. The first church was built on a plain near the Kamchatka River in
1713.
The first church appeared in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the year of
its foundation -- in 1740. It was a field church from the ship Svyatoi
Apostol Pavel. It reached the Kamchatka coast together with the ship
Svyatoi Apostol Pyotr on the expedition of Bering. Kamchatka's main city
was named in honour of the two ships.
About 200,000 people live in the city at present, and a total of
320,000 live on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Buildings in the seismic zone are
not high. They were constructed in the Soviet time. Only one two-storey
building of a governor has been preserved since the post-revolution time.
It is occupied by a museum.
The city's main production sector is fishery. It supplies salmon,
halibut and other fish. Particularly valued are Kamchatka crabs.
Mainly Russians and also Ukrainians and Belarussians who came in the
1990s account for the most of the population. There are also foreign
workers from Caucasian republics, Central Asia and China. The Kamchatka
indigenous population of Koryaks, Itelmens, Kamchadals, Evens and Aleuts
numbers about 9,000 people.
When arriving in Kamchatka, the patriarch noted the Church intended to
pay particular attention to the development of local indigenous peoples.
He visited Koryak and Aleut villages, where he presented awards to
families with many children and also presented computers to schools.
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