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Saint Michael's Cathedral (Собор святого Архистратига Михаила) in
The cathedral was erected between 1897 and 1915, only to be demolished by the Soviets in 1937. It was rebuilt to Charushin's original designs in 2004–2007.
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Saint Michael's Cathedral (Собор святого Архистратига Михаила) in Izhevsk
Izhevsk or Ijevsk (, ; , or ) is the capital city of Udmurtia, Russia. It is situated along the Izh River, west of the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. It is the 21st-largest city in Russia, and the most populous in Udmurtia, with over 600,000 ...
rivals the older Alexander Nevsky Cathedral as the main Orthodox church
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of Udmurtia
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in Russia
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.
Its Russian Revival
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design belongs to Ivan Charushin, a little-known 19th-century architect from Vyatka. The red-brick church is capped with a tent-like roof that rises to a height of 67 metres. It is encircled by several massive chapel
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s with gilded bulbous domes and slender candle-like belfries. The porches have sharply pitched roofs in the manner of the Muscovite
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churches of the 17th century.
The Izhevsk arms factory owed its rise partly to the involvement of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, whose patron saint was Michael the Archangel
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. The factory's employees contributed one percent of their wages
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to a fund set up to finance the construction of a large church to this military saint
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.Official website of St. Michael's CathedralThe cathedral was erected between 1897 and 1915, only to be demolished by the Soviets in 1937. It was rebuilt to Charushin's original designs in 2004–2007.
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