Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands in Bakura
The Bakura parish once included the villages of Bakur with a church and Varysh. Before the church was built, these villages belonged to the Izhma parish, and later to the Sizyab parish.
The church was erected over eight…
Circum-Baikal Railway
Circum-Baikal Railway
The Great Siberian Railway, later known as the Trans-Siberian Railway, became a true "Spine of Russia," connecting its western and eastern regions. A special adornment of this route is the Circum-B…
Holy Trinity Church in Bolshoye Galovo
The parish included the village of Dibožskoye, where the parish church was located, and three villages: Malogolovskaya, Kelcheyurskaya, and Ust-Izhemskaya, situated on the right bank of the Izhma River. Until 1833, these…
Church of the Meeting of the Lord in Gam
By the decree of the Arkhangelsk Spiritual Consistory dated March 30, 1892, number 3039, permission was granted to build a wooden church in honor of the Meeting of the Lord between the villages of Gamskaya and Zlobskaya.…
Transfiguration Church in Izhma
The Izhma Transfiguration Church is located in the Izhma District of the Republic of Komi, historically situated in the Pechora County of the Arkhangelsk Province. The parish included the only settlement, the village of …
Assumption Church in Izhma
The historical Assumption Church with a separate bell tower was built in 1794 and had two altars: the Assumption altar, consecrated in 1796, and the Nicholas altar, consecrated in 1795. An image of the bell tower has sur…
The Brothers Eliseev Merchants' House
Merchant traditions were among the most significant in pre-revolutionary Russia, which gradually transformed from a noble empire into a trading one after Napoleon's invasion. Over a hundred years of Soviet power led to m…
Alexey Gladkoy, Kulibin's Peer
In the early 19th century, two German mechanics, Zoll and Koppe, arrived in Russia, demonstrating an unprecedented machine, a perpetual motion device, to the capital's public for 2 rubles. The audience was thrilled by th…
Wooden Church of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir
Very few pre-revolutionary wooden churches have survived to this day, as the fragility of the material and the anti-religious propaganda of the Soviet period played their role. Therefore, each such church now holds immen…
Church of the Epiphany of the Lord in Utyatskoye
The exact date of the establishment of a separate parish in the Utyatskaya sloboda is unknown, but it likely coincided with the construction of the church in the mid-1690s. Before this, residents turned to the Dmitrievsk…
