“RussNeft” financed restoration of Protection of Holy Mary Church in Udmurtia, consecrated today.

The Protection Church, built in 1788, under Catherine the Great used to be a spiritual center of the city. During the Civil War the church was partially destroyed and later closed by Bolsheviks who used the building as a bread-baking complex.

The decision that RussNeft  sponsor reconstruction of the church was taken by the head of the holding in August 2010 in response to appeal  of the president of the republic and the people of Udmurtia, stressing the necessity of restoration of one of the oldest and most beautiful temples  in the Kama Region. Large-scale construction and restoration works completed in the shortest time possible permitted to recreate the unique sample of temple culture of the XVIII  century.

Churches construction and restoration are an integral part of social policy of OAO NK RussNeft in Udmurtia

The holding sponsored construction of Holy Royal Martyrs Church in the city of Izhevsk, Kazan Holy Mary church in the village of Balezino, Holy Trinity Church in the village of Valamaz, Septinsky district, Saint Panteleimon Great-Martyr and Healer Church in the village of Karakulino, Presentation of the Virgin Church in the village of Nynek, Mozhginsky district, restoration of Saint Michael Cathedral in   Izhevsk, Malo-Diveevsky Monastery in the village of Noria, Malopurginsky district of the republic.  

Protection of Holy Mary Church in Sarapul, Udmurtia 

                                      September 2010г.                                                                                                                                         October 2012г.