Online camera Cherepovets. Krasnoarmeyskaya Square (Vologda Region)
In 1919 by decision of Cherepovets regional executive committee Blagoveshchenskaya square - the central square of the town, located at the intersection of Voskresensky avenue (Sovetsky avenue) and Fedosievskaya street (Victory avenue) was renamed into Revolution square.
The pre-revolutionary name of the square - Annunciation Square - was related to the church in honor of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Annunciation Cathedral was the second city church. Before a stone church was built in the village of Fedoseyev, there was a wooden church with a bell tower. It was erected in 1757 with the blessing of the Vologda bishop Iosif Zolotoy at the expense of the parishioners - residents of the village of Fedosiev, which, having merged with the submonastery settlement to the south of the village, formed the town of Cherepovets.
Construction of a stone church began as early as 1829-1830. The building work dragged on until 1861, when the church was consecrated in honour of Saints Theodosius and Athanasius of Cherepovets. Coincidentally, the consecration of the church coincided with the Manifesto of emancipation of peasants, and the people's opinion that the church was built to this very event strengthened.
The Church of the Annunciation with chapels of the Venerable Theodosius and St. Athanasius in memory of the thrones of the former church was built in a style that later became known as eclectic.
It absorbed monumentality of the XVI century, ornamentation of the XVII century, features of baroque of the XVIII century, and the strict proportions of the XIX. The iconostasis and the icons for the church's interior were made by famous Cherepovets icon painter and carver Alexander Leonov. The new Church of the Annunciation formed a single architectural ensemble with the nearby Church of St. John the Theologian. In 1907 in the Church of the Annunciation the funeral service for the city mayor I.A.Milutin (1829-1907) was held.
