Seraphim Sarovsky Church in Novostroyka
Novostroyka is a rural settlement in the Diveevo District of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. It is located 12.5 km south of the village of Diveevo and 1 km west of the city of Sarov, on the right bank of the Vichkinza River,…
Museum-Apartment of Academician Y. B. Khariton in Sarov
The museum-apartment of Academician Y. B. Khariton was opened on February 27, 1999, on the day of his 95th birthday.
Yuliy Borisovich lived in a cottage on Zelenaya Street from 1972 to 1996. In the late 1960s, his house…
Arzamas Spaso-Preobrazhensky Male Monastery
The monastery was founded around 1555 on the shore of a lake and was under the administration of all-Russian metropolitans, and later patriarchs. With its emergence in the Arzamas region, Christianity began to spread mor…
Transfiguration Cathedral in the Arzamas Spaso-Transfiguration Monastery
The Spaso-Transfiguration Cathedral, built in the 16th century, was originally wooden and located in the northwestern part of the monastery on an elevation. Surrounding the altar of the cathedral was the monastery cemete…
Church of the Annunciation in the Arzamas Spaso-Transfiguration Monastery
The Annunciation Church in Arzamas, one of the oldest parish churches in the city, was founded in the 17th century and was located near the Spaso-Transfiguration Monastery, on the left side of the ravine that separated t…
Chapel of the Savior Not Made by Hands in the Spaso-Transfiguration Monastery
The Chapel of the Savior Not Made by Hands in Arzamas, which is part of the monastery, is located nearby. Currently, services are not held there, and access for visitors is limited, as the interior decoration has not yet…
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Arzamas Spaso-Transfiguration Monastery
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary served as the winter, warm, cathedral, and refectory church of the Arzamas Spaso-Transfiguration Monastery. The first brief description of the monastery, dated 1585, …
Church of St. George the Victorious in Arzamas Monastery
The church above the Holy Gates, dedicated to the great martyr George, was built in 1684-1685. This brick building in the classical style, topped with a small dome, had two-story cell buildings on its sides. In 1806, the…
Belfry of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery in Arzamas
Initially, the monastery's belfry was wooden and had nine bells and a clock. The new belfry, built in the second half of the 17th century, was a tall octagonal pillar with a tent-like top and a small onion-shaped dome. A…
St. Nicholas Women's Monastery in Arzamas
The foundation of the Nicholas Monastery is closely linked to its founder, Theophilact Yakovlev. N. M. Shchegolkov reports that around 1580, a resident of Arzamas, Theophilact Yakovlev, built a wooden church in honor of …
