ROC captures museums, houses and parks in Russia. Why dying temples are not interesting ROC ROC is trying to take the premises of the Museum of Cosmonautics

The struggle for the transfer to the Russian Orthodox Church of real estate that belonged to it before the revolution continues in the cities of the country. In Orenburg, the Russian Orthodox Church demands to return to her the building of the Museum of Cosmonautics, which is one of the departments of the Museum of the History of the City.

The building was erected before the revolution, then it housed a theological seminary. The exhibits include a training spacesuit and flight equipment. Yuri Gagarin. Also, the institution conducts military-patriotic work with teenagers.

As the museum told the correspondent, the struggle for the building began under Yeltsin. Representatives of the church have applied with demands for the transfer of real estate to the mayor's office, but they do not directly contact the leadership of the cultural institution.

Recently, the demands of clerics for the transfer of real estate have become more frequent, recently this situation was even discussed by the governor Yuri Berg and the patriarch Cyril.

In a conversation with a journalist, author of the Agitation and Propaganda program Konstantin Semin noted with sad irony: “This is a natural process by which the Church will have to demand the return of Baikonur and the Plesetsk cosmodrome in order to launch rockets and satellites from there. Gradually, the very existence of Roscosmos should be questioned by our believing public, it is not excluded, that Roskosmos, as well as the Academy of Sciences, will be placed under the protectorate of the Church. "

The Russian Orthodox Church takes Russia: how the church expands its possessions, taking away parks, museums and houses

2017 without exaggeration can be called year of expansion of the Russian Orthodox Church: the scale of the territories that became the property of the church is amazing. The next wave of expansion of the church's property began in January 2017, when the authorities of St. Petersburg agreed to transfer St. Isaac's Cathedral into the free use of the Russian Orthodox Church for 49 years. During the first half of 2017, in different regions of Russia, the Orthodox Church announced its claims not only to public territories, but also to the private property of citizens.

The process that we are witnessing today began back in the 1990s, when the state began to return to the ROC property seized from the church by the Bolsheviks. Then it was about religious objects - the buildings of temples and monasteries, icons and shrines kept in museums were transferred to the ownership of the church.

Culture houses, museums and historical buildings: local dioceses receive public buildings for free

Penza: "How can a believer go there if they play jazz, stamp their feet and have fun?"

In early August, it became known about the transfer of the Penza House of Culture named after Dzerzhinskywhich was previously owned by Russian Railways. The building has about 400 children. The basis for the transfer of the building to the church was the fact that the Epiphany Church was located on the site of the Palace of Culture from 1884 to 1917. In 1923, the Bolsheviks gave the church into the ownership of the railway, the leadership of which organized a club there for their workers and their children.

Picket against the appropriation by the church of the building of the House of Culture named after Dzerzhinsky.

On August 3, Penza residents went to a picket against the appropriation of the building by the church - residents were worried about whether their children would be able to continue to study in circles and sections of the House of Culture. “How will they start studying when there are candles and prayers around? And how can a believer go there if they play jazz, stamp their feet and have fun? ”, The residents were indignant. The governor of the Penza region had earlier assured residents that all the circles would remain in their places, but a few days later he said that the children would now study in the Officers' House, which would be reconstructed for this purpose. Penza residents do not want to take their children to draw and dance in a remote area of \u200b\u200bthe city and believe that there are enough temples in the center in order to perform religious rites. " Penza residents have already planned a new protest action and are going to get Russian Railways to reconsider the decision.

Orenburg: Russian Orthodox Church evicts Yuri Gagarin's spacesuit

A similar story is developing with the Orenburg Museum of Cosmonautics with an attendance of more than 3 thousand people a year. The pride of this museum is personal belongings and equipment of the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who once graduated from the local flying school. But long before the appearance of Yuri Gagarin himself and cosmonautics, there was an Orthodox seminary here - this is what gives rise to the local representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church later more than a hundred years claim this premises.

The building that houses the Museum of Cosmonautics.

After the collapse of the USSR, part of the museum building was returned to the local diocese - now it wants to take the entire building. Employees of the Cosmonautics Museum are convinced that the museum exposition will not be able to be moved to another building and will have to be destroyed, because it "was made for centuries." Now the city authorities are looking for a new room for the museum - the issue of transferring the building of the diocese, one might say, has already been resolved, but until a suitable building for the museum is found, the icons and candles will not be in the place of Yuri Gagarin's spacesuit.

Novocherkassk: Cossacks write a letter to the Russian Patriarch

In the city of Novocherkassk, Rostov Region, Cossacks and the local diocese clashed in the struggle for a historic building. In house 72 on Kirpichnaya Street, the board of the Cossack village "Srednyaya" is now located. The Russian Orthodox Church claims that the building used to belong to the Mikhailovsky Church, although the church owned it for only 5 years, after which an elementary school was located there for a long time. Now the atamans of the Cossack army regularly gather in the building. On June 17, they wrote a letter to the Patriarch of All Russia and the President of Russia with a request to moderate the appetites of the local diocese.

Cossacks of the village "Srednyaya" in the building of the administration of the village.

For several years now, the diocese has been planning to open a parish school in this building. The Cossacks admit that they are ready to provide a room for 120 seats in the building of the village administration for classes with children. But the representatives of the church were not satisfied with this proposal - they insist on change of owner. According to the Cossacks, this year the diocese came to the aid of city Administration, which unilaterally terminated the lease due to the transfer of the building to the Russian Orthodox Church.

Squares, dachas and embankments: city administrations donate municipal lands to the Russian Orthodox Church

Kaliningrad: "Find money and then everything will work out"

In January 2017, the Kaliningrad authorities decided to keep up with the capital and offered to erect a 10-meter monument to Prince Vladimir near Victory Square. To implement this idea, the authorities decided to transfer the plot next to the square for free use by the Russian Orthodox Church. As the city authorities later told, the cost of this site is 5,015,358 rubles and 61 kopecks. The proposal was supported by 20 city council members, two abstained. The monument is supposed to be erected this year, but the sculptor Vladimir Surovtsev, who was approached by the authorities, on January 19 (before the vote on the transfer of land to the Russian Orthodox Church) told Komsomolskaya Pravda that the city authorities offered him to find money for the monument himself: “Today, to me they ask: "Vladimir Alexandrovich, find money and then everything will work out." It turns out that I, as an author, must create, go through all the approvals, and also find finances. Honestly, for me this is an impossible task for today.<...> We are in contact with some representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, and they sometimes call me: "Have you found money?" The sculptor estimates that 16 to 20 million rubles will be needed to make the monument. In 2016, the administration allowed the Kaliningrad diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church to build a four-story Orthodox educational center with an area of \u200b\u200b5.6 thousand square meters on Victory Square.

Sketch for the monument to Prince Vladimir in Kaliningrad.

St. Petersburg: 47 acres in Komarovo and a chapel in the parking lot

At the end of July, the Committee for Property Relations of the Administration of St. Petersburg donated 4.7 thousand square meters of land in the village of Komarovo to the ROC for free use. The cost of this site is estimated at 30 million rubles... According to the Land Code, the Russian Orthodox Church has the right to acquire ownership of the territory on which the property belonging to it is located. There really is a "church" real estate in Komarovo - the dacha of Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg and Ladoga is located here. As of 2005, there is a house with an area of \u200b\u200b212 square meters and a house for servants with an area of \u200b\u200b144 square meters.

Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko and Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Varsonofy (right to left).

The other day it became known about the plans of the Russian Orthodox Church to receive also the parking area in Komarovo - now the construction of the chapel is being completed there, although there is no permits for this structure. As Novaya Gazeta writes in St. Petersburg, church representatives expect to legalize the construction retroactively and are confident that the governor will "take a political decision."

Krasnoyarsk: "referendum on the cathedral is extremism"

In May 2017, a rally was held in Krasnoyarsk against the construction of a church in the historical center of the city - the Strelka area. For many years, the local diocese and city authorities have been looking for a place to build the Nativity of the Mother of God Cathedral - in the 19th century it was the largest church in Siberia until it was blown up by the Bolsheviks in 1936. Now on the site of the destroyed cathedral is the building of the government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. “Krasnoyarsk will soon be one of the last cities where there is no cathedral,” complained representatives of the local diocese. In 2012 came to Krasnoyarsk patriarch Kirill and personally chose the site for the new church - the patriarch's finger pointed to the embankment at Strelka.

This is how the Mother of God Nativity Cathedral looked like before the explosion in 1936.

According to the law, the ROC can lay claim to this land, since before the revolution there was another cathedral here, so the city authorities quickly made a positive decision. This was not prevented by the fact that officially the land had already been given for the construction of a business center for the Moscow company "Retail Park Group". Local residents were outraged by the fact that the city authorities did not hold any auction or public hearings. Emerged by analogy with Isaac Metropolitan Panteleimon called the residents' demand to hold a referendum on the transfer of land at Strelka into the ownership of the Russian Orthodox Church as extremism and recalled: “Everyone who broke crosses and churches ended up in a terrible death.” “The mission of the church is not to surprise with the luxury of cathedrals and not to collect municipal land for themselves, but to bring relief from torment to the disadvantaged,” protesters said at the rally.

The cost of building the temple is estimated at 1.3 billion rubles, and they plan to build the cathedral for the 2019 Universiade. In July, a tarpaulin tent for prayers was erected on the site of the future church - the entrance to the “cathedral” is decorated with an inscription with the hashtag “city beyond the cathedral”.

Houses and apartments: the Russian Orthodox Church in court demands the cancellation of the results of privatization

Vysha: "Go to the toilet in the forest - it is near"

In the village of Vysha, Ryazan Region, the Holy Dormition Monastery is not encroaching on public buildings or municipal land, but on the private property of local residents. In 1917, this monastery was closed, and all its property, including buildings and land, was given to the state. In the 1930s, a psychiatric hospital was housed here, and in the 1970s, the workers of the medical institution were given apartments in houses located on the territory of the hospital. In the 90s, the inhabitants of these houses privatized their apartments, and then the hospital moved... The state then decided to transfer several buildings that had previously belonged to the monastery to the Russian Orthodox Church. In 2011, as a result secret border surveying, all privatized buildings ended up on the territory of federal property - people were recognized The "invaders" of the monastic landsand their gardens and sheds are illegal. One family living on the allegedly monastic land was demolished with the only outdoor toilet - the court advised residents to "go to the forest, he is nearby." Residents and would be ready to move out of the monastery lands - but they are not offered other housing, and the possible monetary compensation is so small that it is impossible to purchase new housing with it. 23 families have already suffered from the oppression of the monastery, among them a former prisoner of a concentration camp.

One of the residents of the village of Vysha, whose house becomes the property of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Stavropol: “My documents will be kept there, and the nun's grandmother will be accepted into the monastery”

In Stavropol, the local diocese is seeking the eviction of the family of the 90-year-old veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Raisa Fomenko. The barrack-type house, where Raisa and her family now live, is, in the opinion of the local church, a church monument: before the revolution, this house was allegedly the abbot building of the Ioanno-Mariinsky convent. Now the church is demanding the abolition of privatization - in their opinion, the municipality illegally allowed residents to privatize the house, which was supposed to become the property of the local diocese. The residents of the house are ready to move to new housing, but neither the city administration nor the diocese are ready to either provide new housing or offer compensation. The only proposal made by the diocese is to resettle 90-year-old veteran Raisa Fomenko to the monastery cellso that the abbess of the monastery in the building vacated for the church could store documents.

Tamara and Raisa Ivanovna in the corridor of the barrack.

Parks and reserves: dioceses want to assign recreational zones and UNESCO sites

Bryansk: felling of chestnuts in honor of the Romanov family

In July, protests took place in Bryansk in defense of the territory of Proletarsky Park from the claims of the Russian Orthodox Church - the Bryansk diocese intends to establish another church there. According to the Bryansk activists, the new church building will occupy up to 3.5 thousand square meters of the city park, and the construction will require cutting down 80 chestnut trees.

Eight trees have already been cut down only in order to conduct geological surveys - after research it will become clear whether it is possible to build a temple here. The Bryansk diocese, to which a plot in the park was donated, has already prepared a project for a temple “in honor of the Holy Royal Passion-bearers” (in honor of the executed imperial Romanov family).

The local authorities claim that they take a neutral side in the conflict, although residents are outraged that the citizens themselves were not invited to public hearings on the fate of the park. As a result, the architectural council of Bryansk recognized the park as a good place for a temple, despite the felling of trees.

Crimea: a hotel for the diocese on the site of an ancient Greek city

In January 2017, it became known that the Simferopol and Crimean diocese was going to take possession of the objects of the state museum-reserve "Tavricheskiy Chersonesos"... The diocese in its application asked to give it 24 objects of the museum - allegedly, these buildings were previously used by the monastery of St. Vladimir.

National reserve "Chersonesus Tauric".

According to Sergei Khalyuta, the Dean of the Sevastopol District, who previously headed the museum, only the transfer of the reserve to the church will help "begin the process of genuine development of the national reserve." The management of the museum, on the contrary, believes that if the decision to transfer this territory to the Russian Orthodox Church is taken by the regional authorities, then the work of the museum-reserve will actually stop.

Museum-reserve "Chersonesus Tauric" is uNESCO World Heritage Site, archaeological excavations are regularly conducted there. The diocese plans to build a museum complex on the territory of the reserve, the central part of which will be a tower with a height of 28 meters and an area of \u200b\u200bmore than 4 thousand square meters, as well as build churches and the Necropolis of Saints complex with guest houses there.

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The Russian Orthodox Church takes Russia: how the church expands its possessions, taking away parks, museums and houses

2017 without exaggeration can be called year of expansion of the Russian Orthodox Church: the scale of the territories that became the property of the church is amazing. The next wave of expansion of the church's property began in January 2017, when the authorities of St. Petersburg agreed to transfer St. Isaac's Cathedral into the free use of the Russian Orthodox Church for 49 years. During the first half of 2017, in different regions of Russia, the Orthodox Church announced its claims not only to public territories, but also to the private property of citizens.

The process that we are witnessing today began back in the 1990s, when the state began to return to the ROC property seized from the church by the Bolsheviks. Then it was about religious objects - the buildings of temples and monasteries, icons and shrines kept in museums were transferred to the ownership of the church.

AT 2000s The State Duma adopted a number of laws, according to which the church was able to claim in general all property and territories that belonged to it before 1917. The last of the documents - Federal Law No. 327 ("On the Transfer of State or Municipal Property of Religious Purpose to Religious Organizations"), adopted in 2010, made it possible to transfer any municipal and state property to the ROC, and allowed the church itself to lease the received areas to lease and conduct business where hospitals, schools, cultural centers and museums were located yesterday.

Culture houses, museums and historical buildings: local dioceses receive public buildings for free

Penza: "How can a believer go there if they play jazz, stamp their feet and have fun?"

In early August, it became known about the transfer of the Penza House of Culture named after Dzerzhinskywhich was previously owned by Russian Railways. The building has about 400 children. The basis for the transfer of the building to the church was the fact that the Epiphany Church was located on the site of the Palace of Culture from 1884 to 1917. In 1923, the Bolsheviks gave the church into the ownership of the railway, the leadership of which organized a club there for their workers and their children.

Picket against the appropriation by the church of the building of the House of Culture named after Dzerzhinsky.

On August 3, Penza residents went to a picket against the appropriation of the building by the church - residents were worried about whether their children would be able to continue to study in circles and sections of the House of Culture. “How will they start studying when there are candles and prayers around? And how can a believer go there if they play jazz, stamp their feet and have fun? ”, The residents were indignant. The governor of the Penza region had earlier assured residents that all the circles would remain in their places, but a few days later he said that the children would now study in the Officers' House, which would be reconstructed for this purpose. Penza residents do not want to take their children to draw and dance in a remote area of \u200b\u200bthe city and believe that there are enough temples in the center in order to perform religious rites. " Penza residents have already planned a new protest action and are going to get Russian Railways to reconsider the decision.

Orenburg: Russian Orthodox Church evicts Yuri Gagarin's spacesuit

A similar story is developing with the Orenburg Museum of Cosmonautics with an attendance of more than 3 thousand people a year. The pride of this museum is personal belongings and equipment of the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who once graduated from the local flying school. But long before the appearance of Yuri Gagarin himself and cosmonautics, there was an Orthodox seminary here - this is what gives rise to the local representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church later more than a hundred years claim this premises.

The building that houses the Museum of Cosmonautics.

After the collapse of the USSR, part of the museum building was returned to the local diocese - now it wants to take the entire building. Employees of the Cosmonautics Museum are convinced that the museum exposition will not be able to be moved to another building and will have to be destroyed, because it "was made for centuries." Now the city authorities are looking for a new room for the museum - the issue of transferring the building of the diocese, one might say, has already been resolved, but until a suitable building for the museum is found, the icons and candles will not be in the place of Yuri Gagarin's spacesuit.

Novocherkassk: Cossacks write a letter to the Russian Patriarch

In the city of Novocherkassk, Rostov Region, Cossacks and the local diocese clashed in the struggle for a historic building. In house 72 on Kirpichnaya Street, the board of the Cossack village "Srednyaya" is now located. The Russian Orthodox Church claims that the building used to belong to the Mikhailovsky Church, although the church owned it for only 5 years, after which an elementary school was located there for a long time. Now the atamans of the Cossack army regularly gather in the building. On June 17, they wrote a letter to the Patriarch of All Russia and the President of Russia with a request to moderate the appetites of the local diocese.

Cossacks of the village "Srednyaya" in the building of the administration of the village.

For several years now, the diocese has been planning to open a parish school in this building. The Cossacks admit that they are ready to provide a room for 120 seats in the building of the village administration for classes with children. But the representatives of the church were not satisfied with this proposal - they insist on change of owner. According to the Cossacks, this year the diocese came to the aid of city Administration, which unilaterally terminated the lease due to the transfer of the building to the Russian Orthodox Church.

Squares, dachas and embankments: city administrations donate municipal lands to the Russian Orthodox Church

Kaliningrad: "Find money and then everything will work out"

In January 2017, the Kaliningrad authorities decided to keep up with the capital and offered to erect a 10-meter monument to Prince Vladimir near Victory Square. To implement this idea, the authorities decided to transfer the plot next to the square for free use by the Russian Orthodox Church. As the city authorities later told, the cost of this site is 5,015,358 rubles and 61 kopecks. The proposal was supported by 20 city council members, two abstained. The monument is supposed to be erected this year, but the sculptor Vladimir Surovtsev, who was approached by the authorities, on January 19 (before the vote on the transfer of land to the Russian Orthodox Church) told Komsomolskaya Pravda that the city authorities offered him to find money for the monument himself: “Today, to me they ask: "Vladimir Alexandrovich, find money and then everything will work out." It turns out that as an author I have to create, go through all the approvals, and also find finances. Honestly, for me this is an impossible task for today.<...> We are in contact with some representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, and they sometimes call me: "Have you found money?" The sculptor estimates that 16 to 20 million rubles will be needed to make the monument. In 2016, the administration allowed the Kaliningrad diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church to build a four-story Orthodox educational center with an area of \u200b\u200b5.6 thousand square meters on Victory Square.

Sketch for the monument to Prince Vladimir in Kaliningrad.

St. Petersburg: 47 acres in Komarovo and a chapel in the parking lot

At the end of July, the Committee for Property Relations of the Administration of St. Petersburg donated 4.7 thousand square meters of land in the village of Komarovo to the ROC for free use. The cost of this site is estimated at 30 million rubles... According to the Land Code, the Russian Orthodox Church has the right to acquire ownership of the territory on which the property belonging to it is located. There really is a "church" real estate in Komarovo - the dacha of Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg and Ladoga is located here. As of 2005, there is a house with an area of \u200b\u200b212 square meters and a house for servants with an area of \u200b\u200b144 square meters.

Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko and Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Varsonofy (right to left).

The other day it became known about the plans of the Russian Orthodox Church to receive also the parking area in Komarovo - now the construction of the chapel is being completed there, although there is no permits for this structure. As Novaya Gazeta writes in St. Petersburg, church representatives expect to legalize the construction retroactively and are confident that the governor "will take a political decision."

Krasnoyarsk: "referendum on the cathedral is extremism"

In May 2017, a rally was held in Krasnoyarsk against the construction of a church in the historical center of the city - the Strelka area. For many years, the local diocese and city authorities have been looking for a place to build the Nativity of the Mother of God Cathedral - in the 19th century it was the largest church in Siberia until it was blown up by the Bolsheviks in 1936. Now on the site of the destroyed cathedral is the building of the government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. “Krasnoyarsk will soon be one of the last cities where there is no cathedral,” complained representatives of the local diocese. In 2012 came to Krasnoyarsk patriarch Kirill and personally chose the site for the new church - the patriarch's finger pointed to the embankment at Strelka.

This is how the Mother of God Nativity Cathedral looked like before the explosion in 1936.

According to the law, the ROC can lay claim to this land, since before the revolution there was another cathedral here, so the city authorities quickly made a positive decision. This was not prevented by the fact that officially the land had already been given for the construction of a business center for the Moscow company "Retail Park Group". Local residents were outraged by the fact that the city authorities did not hold any auction or public hearings. Emerged by analogy with Isaac Metropolitan Panteleimon called the residents' demand to hold a referendum on the transfer of land at Strelka into the ownership of the Russian Orthodox Church as extremism and recalled: “Everyone who broke crosses and churches ended up in a terrible death.” “The mission of the church is not to surprise with the luxury of cathedrals and not to collect municipal land for themselves, but to bring relief from torment to the disadvantaged,” protesters said at the rally.

The cost of building the temple is estimated at 1.3 billion rubles, and they plan to build the cathedral for the 2019 Universiade. In July, a tarpaulin tent for prayers was erected on the site of the future church - the entrance to the “cathedral” is decorated with an inscription with the hashtag “city beyond the cathedral”.

Houses and apartments: the Russian Orthodox Church in court demands the cancellation of the results of privatization

Vysha: "Go to the toilet in the forest - it is near"

In the village of Vysha, Ryazan Region, the Holy Dormition Monastery is not encroaching on public buildings or municipal land, but on the private property of local residents. In 1917, this monastery was closed, and all its property, including buildings and land, was given to the state. In the 1930s, a psychiatric hospital was housed here, and in the 1970s, the workers of the medical institution were given apartments in houses located on the territory of the hospital. In the 90s, the inhabitants of these houses privatized their apartments, and then the hospital moved... The state then decided to transfer several buildings that had previously belonged to the monastery to the Russian Orthodox Church. In 2011, as a result secret border surveying, all privatized buildings ended up on the territory of federal property - people were recognized The "invaders" of the monastic landsand their gardens and sheds are illegal. One family living on the allegedly monastic land was demolished with the only outdoor toilet - the court advised residents to "go to the forest, he is nearby." Residents and would be ready to move out of the monastery lands - but they are not offered other housing, and the possible monetary compensation is so small that it is impossible to purchase new housing with it. 23 families have already suffered from the oppression of the monastery, among them a former prisoner of a concentration camp.

One of the residents of the village of Vysha, whose house becomes the property of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Stavropol: “My documents will be kept there, and the nun's grandmother will be accepted into the monastery”

In Stavropol, the local diocese is seeking the eviction of the family of the 90-year-old veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Raisa Fomenko. The barrack-type house, where Raisa and her family now live, is, in the opinion of the local church, a church monument: before the revolution, this house was allegedly the abbot building of the Ioanno-Mariinsky convent. Now the church is demanding the abolition of privatization - in their opinion, the municipality illegally allowed residents to privatize the house, which was supposed to become the property of the local diocese. The residents of the house are ready to move to new housing, but neither the city administration nor the diocese are ready to either provide new housing or offer compensation. The only proposal made by the diocese is to resettle 90-year-old veteran Raisa Fomenko to the monastery cellso that the abbess of the monastery in the building vacated for the church could store documents.

Tamara and Raisa Ivanovna in the corridor of the barrack.

Parks and reserves: dioceses want to assign recreational zones and UNESCO sites

Bryansk: felling of chestnuts in honor of the Romanov family

In July, protests took place in Bryansk in defense of the territory of Proletarsky Park from the claims of the Russian Orthodox Church - the Bryansk diocese intends to establish another church there. According to the Bryansk activists, the new church building will occupy up to 3.5 thousand square meters of the city park, and the construction will require cutting down 80 chestnut trees.

Eight trees have already been cut down only in order to conduct geological surveys - after research it will become clear whether it is possible to build a temple here. The Bryansk diocese, to which a plot in the park was donated, has already prepared a project for a temple “in honor of the Holy Royal Passion-bearers” (in honor of the executed imperial Romanov family).

The local authorities claim that they take a neutral side in the conflict, although residents are outraged that the citizens themselves were not invited to public hearings on the fate of the park. As a result, the architectural council of Bryansk recognized the park as a good place for a temple, despite the felling of trees.

Crimea: a hotel for the diocese on the site of an ancient Greek city

In January 2017, it became known that the Simferopol and Crimean diocese was going to take possession of the objects of the state museum-reserve "Tavricheskiy Chersonesos"... The diocese in its application asked to give it 24 objects of the museum - allegedly, these buildings were previously used by the monastery of St. Vladimir.

National reserve "Chersonesus Tauric".

According to Sergei Khalyuta, the Dean of the Sevastopol District, who previously headed the museum, only the transfer of the reserve to the church will help "begin the process of genuine development of the national reserve." The management of the museum, on the contrary, believes that if the decision to transfer this territory to the Russian Orthodox Church is taken by the regional authorities, then the work of the museum-reserve will actually stop.

Museum-reserve "Chersonesus Tauric" is uNESCO World Heritage Site, archaeological excavations are regularly conducted there. The diocese plans to build a museum complex on the territory of the reserve, the central part of which will be a tower with a height of 28 meters and an area of \u200b\u200bmore than 4 thousand square meters, as well as build churches and the Necropolis of Saints complex with guest houses there.

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At 17 Chelyuskintsev Street in Orenburg, there is the Cosmonautics Museum, which is visited by more than three thousand people annually. The museum grew out of the room of the Battle Glory of the Orenburg Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after V.I. I. S. Polbina, which Yuri Gagarin graduated with honors. The personal belongings of the first cosmonaut of the planet, his flight equipment and training spacesuit are kept here. In 2007, the museum became one of the branches of the Museum of the History of Orenburg.

From that moment on, the diocese has been striving to have the entire building transferred to it. If this happens, the museum in the form in which it exists now will be destroyed. “The exposition cannot be moved any more, it will have to be destroyed. Because it is made in such a way that it cannot be dismantled, the school hoped that it would be here for centuries, ”says the head Valery Lezhnin.

Neither the museum nor the cadet corps know where to move. According to Valery, for 17 years he has been trying to get a building on Sovetskaya Street, 1 - formerly one of the buildings of the same disbanded flight school. “Nothing worked, now they seem to have made some progress, they seem to be giving us this building from federal property to the region. But it needs to be formalized, then repairs need to be done there. It will be very, very long, ”says Lezhnin.

House 1 on Sovetskaya for the museum is "punched" by the governor himself, but the manager does not see other actions from the local authorities. “Arapov (the mayor of Orenburg Yevgeny Arapov. - Open Russia) just came here the last time, when another letter came from the diocese, looked again and said:“ The people will not forgive us if we remove the museum from here, ”he recalls.

Now, according to Valery, there is a lull in the situation with the transfer of the church building. Lezhnin is told in the department for culture and art that there is no reason for concern so far. But the manager is not worried: he has long come to terms with the fact that he will have to move. “The veterans of the school turned to Moscow, to the president, to the minister of defense. Naturally, all this did not reach the president. It's useless to apply anyway. You know what is happening now in St. Petersburg with St. Isaac's Cathedral and in other museums, and this was before, "says Valery.

The words of the representatives of the administration are confirmed by the rector of the neighboring theological seminary, Abbot Nikodim (Shushmarchenko). The diocese is not going to take the building until there is an alternative for the museum and the cadet corps: “The situation is not developing in any way. We are not yet transferred, because there is nowhere to resettle others, there is no way to resettle those who are neighbors with us.

Recall that we are talking about an old building on Chelyuskintsev Street. Before the revolution, it housed a theological seminary, and in the Soviet years - one of the buildings of the Polbin Higher Military Aviation School of the Red Banner. Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut of the planet, was among the graduates of the Orenburg "Letka". True, he studied in another building - on Sovetskaya Street, 1. In 1993, the school was disbanded, and the museum of cosmonautics created on its basis is still alive.

Our museum "grew" out of the military glory room of the school, - director Valery Lezhnin, a first-class pilot, retired lieutenant colonel, told RG. - It has existed in its modern form since 1991. We, the veterans, have preserved all the exhibits, including Gagarin's training spacesuit and his flight equipment, which he handed over to the pilot. By the way, later the cosmonaut corps was replenished by three more students of the school: Valentin Lebedev, Alexander Viktorenko and Yuri Lonchakov.

Once a delegation from the USA came to us, they said that in America the university where the first cosmonaut of the Earth studied would never be closed.

Among the graduates of our "Letka" - 341 Hero of the Soviet Union ...

In the 90s, part of the building on Chelyuskintsev Street was returned to the diocese. Since then, the museum has been adjacent to a theological seminary and a cadet school named after V. Neplyueva. Three museum halls are located on an area of \u200b\u200b160 square meters, over time the exhibits became crowded here. The regional authorities started talking about the fact that a more suitable place for the museum would be, where a memorial plaque was installed reminding that Yuri Gagarin studied within these walls. However, the building, which was given the status of a monument of history and culture, was in shared federal, municipal and private ownership for many years and eventually fell into disrepair. As "RG" already wrote, recently the question of the fate of the legendary house was finally decided:. This means that plans to move the museum may come true. Will the museum workers themselves be satisfied with this option?

So we are fighting for this! The talks have been going on for 17 years, - Valery Lezhnin explained. - Before the Day of Cosmonautics, we turned to our colleagues with a request to give us exhibits related to the conquest of space, but we do not have space for their storage. And in the new building, we could significantly expand the exposition.

True, there is no need to rely on an early housewarming - the house on Sovetskaya is in need of repair. Meanwhile, there is not enough space for the theological seminary in the building on Chelyuskintsev, and the diocese periodically reminds the authorities of its rights. However, there is no talk of any "eviction" of the museum.

The municipality assured that they would not touch us: “If we lose the museum of cosmonautics, the people will not forgive us for this,” says Valery Lezhnin.