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В 2004 году была построена небольшая часовня в честь Урюпинской иконы Божией Матери. В память о "кладбищенском" прошлом часовни, в 2006 году прихожане установили возле нее три мраморных креста православным воинам, отдавшим жизнь за веру и отечество в годы гражданской и Великой Отечественной воин, а также в мирное время. А год спустя, в марте 2007-го рядом с часовней были перезахоронены останки советских воинов, найденные при земляных работах в Комсомольском саду.
In 2004 we built a small chapel in honor of Uryupinsk Mother of God. In memory of "cemetery" past the chapel, in 2006 the congregation established by her three marble crosses Orthodox soldiers who gave their lives for their faith and the fatherland during the Civil and the Great Patriotic War, as well as in peacetime. A year later, in March of 2007, next to the chapel were reburied the remains of Soviet soldiers found during the excavation works in Komsomolsk garden.
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Just in case you mistakenly heard that it was all ice and snow in Russia, take a peek at the Big Bikini Exposition. This is right on the river Moskva in Moscow!Moscow has been the capital of Russia for almost its entire history. The exception is during the period of the Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 until the Russian Revolution 1917. For these two centuries the capital was St. Petersburg. The Russian Empire was the second largest contiguous Empire in world memory; only the Mongol Empire had been greater.Check out what's happening north of Mongolia these days, in ChitaAlthough you may not have heard of Sochi, on the Black Sea, they're building up quickly and hope to host the 2014 Olympics.Other periods of Russian history include the Tsardom of Russia, from Ivan IV to Peter the Great, and the Grand Duchy (14th-16th centuries).The earliest period of Russian history was ruled by the Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus, which was the first Russian state dating back to 800AD in Kiev.Modern Russia remains one of the world's superpowers. They launched the earth's second satellite, called Sputnik 1, and were the first country to put a human being into orbit around earth. (The first one is called the Moon.)After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a federal republic of 83 states.Text by Steve Smith.
