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the Famous Transfiguration Church on Kizhi island this year will not open. All ceremonial events postponed to 2021.

this was reported in the press service of the Museum-reserve “Kizhi”. The main reason anti – epidemic activities on the territory of Karelia. They do not allow a mass congestion of people. And at the opening of the Church of the Transfiguration was expecting large number of guests.

Therefore, on 19 August, when the planned opening on the island will be in normal mode, no further events will not. The opening of the Church was postponed to next year.

“RG” was told that in July, the Church of the Transfiguration back the shroud from the original decoration of the Church. Its more than a year was restored in the workshops of the all-Russian art scientific and restoration center them. academician I. E. Grabar, Moscow.