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Set of bells sent out from Voronezh to St Petersburg Wed.
VORONEZH, July 20 (Itar-Tass) - A set of bells, recreated for
installation in the bell tower of the Kronstadt Nautical Cathedral, have
been sent out from here to St Petersburg on Wednesday. The bells were cast
by the bellmakers of the Voronezh-based bell casting plant Vera.
The St Nicholas Cathedral, closed down in the 1930s, had been built in
1913 by architect Vassily Kosyakov. The Cathedral had been contemplated as
a monument to all mariners and is reckoned a spiritual center of domestic
fleet and main building of Kronstadt.
Restoration work on the Cathedral is now under way due to the joint
efforts of the Cathedral's Public Board of Trustees, the Russian Orthodox
Church, the RF Ministry of Culture and Defence Ministry with support from
an international charity foundation.
The manufacture of the bells required special effort on the part of
the plant's bell makers. A special ornamentation with representation of
icons was worked out for each of the 16 bells. The largest bell weighs
about 17 tonnes, just like its prototype, Marina Anisimova, deputy
director of the enterprise, has told Itar-Tass.
Originally the set of bells was installed in two bell towers.
According to the then existing traditions, the arrangement of bells
corresponded both to Western European and Byzantine architecture. The
set of bells of the St Nicholas Cathedral in Kronstadt was one of the
latest major ones in the Russian Empire.
Recreated in Voronezh, the set of bells, accompanied by a police
escort, will be delivered to the city on the Neva withnt wo days, for a
distance of 1,237 km a special heavy-duty truck can cover only in the
daytime .
The output of the plant Vera is known both in Russia and in many other
countries. Over 20 years of the plant's existence, the personnel of the
enterprise has made about 17,000 bells which are installed in Russia, in
Orthodox churches in the United States, Japan, and a number of European
countries.
One of the largest orders placed with the plant included copies of the
carillion of St Daniel Monastery, the original of which had been for years
at Harvard University. After copies of the monastic bells had been
delivered to the US from Voronezh, the University administration returned
the sacred relics to Russia.
installation in the bell tower of the Kronstadt Nautical Cathedral, have
been sent out from here to St Petersburg on Wednesday. The bells were cast
by the bellmakers of the Voronezh-based bell casting plant Vera.
The St Nicholas Cathedral, closed down in the 1930s, had been built in
1913 by architect Vassily Kosyakov. The Cathedral had been contemplated as
a monument to all mariners and is reckoned a spiritual center of domestic
fleet and main building of Kronstadt.
Restoration work on the Cathedral is now under way due to the joint
efforts of the Cathedral's Public Board of Trustees, the Russian Orthodox
Church, the RF Ministry of Culture and Defence Ministry with support from
an international charity foundation.
The manufacture of the bells required special effort on the part of
the plant's bell makers. A special ornamentation with representation of
icons was worked out for each of the 16 bells. The largest bell weighs
about 17 tonnes, just like its prototype, Marina Anisimova, deputy
director of the enterprise, has told Itar-Tass.
Originally the set of bells was installed in two bell towers.
According to the then existing traditions, the arrangement of bells
corresponded both to Western European and Byzantine architecture. The
set of bells of the St Nicholas Cathedral in Kronstadt was one of the
latest major ones in the Russian Empire.
Recreated in Voronezh, the set of bells, accompanied by a police
escort, will be delivered to the city on the Neva withnt wo days, for a
distance of 1,237 km a special heavy-duty truck can cover only in the
daytime .
The output of the plant Vera is known both in Russia and in many other
countries. Over 20 years of the plant's existence, the personnel of the
enterprise has made about 17,000 bells which are installed in Russia, in
Orthodox churches in the United States, Japan, and a number of European
countries.
One of the largest orders placed with the plant included copies of the
carillion of St Daniel Monastery, the original of which had been for years
at Harvard University. After copies of the monastic bells had been
delivered to the US from Voronezh, the University administration returned
the sacred relics to Russia.
