Where to go on a tour in Russia. Cherepovets - the story of one of the monastery

Cherepovets – provincial Northern city, the center of one of the districts of the Vologda region. He has a fundamental difference from other similar localities: Russia's only a regional center of predominant regional area and population.
In the old Slavonic language is the word "skull", which means high place, and the word "villages" – settlements. From their merger and get city name – Cherepovets.
To consider the city's deaf province biased, because he developed industrial (though almost all of the enterprise – metallurgical), many theatres, museums, monuments. Cherepovets one is unique: the only district centre with its University.
The beginning of urban history is considered from the mention of the appearance here of the resurrection monastery in the XIV century Chronicle tells us that even then, around the monastery there was a settlement. Officially, the status of Cherepovets received in 1777, when Catherine the great the monastery was abolished, and the Cherepovets Posad conducted according to the Empress of the land reform, became the district centre in the Novgorod province.
Church of the Resurrection in the former monastery lasted until the present time. In the first years of Soviet power was handed over to the Renovationists. During the great Patriotic war were repaired aircraft engines, which were transported here from all fronts. Immediately after the Victory, the temple was returned to believers.
During the reign of N. With.Khrushchev was developed the project of reconstruction of Cherepovets, with new parks, stadiums, 9-storey houses. On the site of the resurrection Cathedral was planned to establish a monument to V. I. Lenin. Prevented these plans lack funding. The temple remained in place, it is not interrupted prayer.
Currently, the clergy of the Cathedral leads an active educational work. There is a Sunday school for children, discussions for adults. When the Cathedral was built as a hotel for pilgrims who come to venerate the saints, whose relics are kept in a special ark in the temple.
In 1992, at the Cathedral square of Cherepovets was a monument to the founding fathers of the resurrection monastery – monks, Athanasius and Theodosius, who are also considered founders of the city.

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