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MAKS-2009 is drawing to a close
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ZHUKOVSKY, the Moscow region, August 23 (Itar-Tass) - The MAKS-2009
International Aerospace Show is wrapping up on Sunday. Despite the global
economic crisis, the show confirmed its reputation of being one of the
world's biggest aviation forums.
Over the past six days dozens of major deals were struck on the
sidelines of MAKS-2009. Official representatives of leading aviation firms
made a number of serious statements and defined plans for the industry's
further development.
The Zhukovsky airfield was crowded with spectators over the past two
days. Despite cold weather and rain, the schedule of exhibition flights
was not changed. None of the flights were cancelled although minor
corrections had to be made to the exhibition programs of aerobatics teams.
Russian pilots have prepared a fascinating exhibition program for the
show's closing ceremony.
The Russkiye Vityazi (the Russian Knights) aerobatics group will
perform one flight over Zhukovsky on four Su-27 planes at approximately
16:50 Moscow time on Sunday despite earlier reports that the team would
not participate in MAKS-2009 because of the tragic death of its commander
Igor Tkachenko, 45, in an air crash on August 16.
.Arkhangelsk is last stop in Patriarch Kirill's northern trip.
ARKHANGELSK, August 23 (Itar-Tass) -Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
Kirill will finish his four-day tour of the Russian North in Arkhangelsk
on Sunday, the press service of the Arkhangelsk regional administration
told Itar-Tass.
The festive jangle of bells on a mobile bell-tower that has been
mounted on the city's main square in front of the regional drama theatre
will herald the patriarch's arrival. The belfry is standing on a place of
the former St. Trinity Cathedral, which was destroyed in 1929.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church will lead a church service and
consecrate the first brick laid in the basement of a future St. Trinity
Chapel on the place of the altar of the former regional church of St.
Trinity.
After that, the patriarch will visit a construction site of the Church
of Archangel Michael to bless its construction. The Church of Archangel
Michael will be the main church in the Pomorye region. It's being built on
donations from god-believers. Its foundation will rest on pillars with the
names of the donators. A campaign to raise funds for 'name' bricks that
will be used for building the church's walls is under way in Arkhangelsk.
Patriarch Kirill will meet the city and regional public at the
Arkhangelsk Drama Theatre named after Mikhail Lomonosov. The 1,500-seat
theatre hall is unlikely to accomodate all those who would like to meet
the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Therefore, it will be broadcast
live on large sceens on the theatre's building. Microphones will be
installed outside the theatre so as people could address their questions
to the patriarch.
A day before, on Saturday, Patriarch Kirill visited the Solovki
Islands where he discovered museum documents about his grandfather Vasily
Gundyayev. He was kept in punitive confinement on the Sekirnaya Hill on
Solovki's Grand Island during Stalin's purges in the 20th century.
During his visit to the Priory Church of Ascension on Sekirnaya Hill
the head of the Russian the patriarch saw a museum exposition devoted to
the tragic events in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. He
discovered a copy of a document proving that his granddad Vasily Gundyayev
had spent thirty days in punitive confinement on Sekirnaya Hill, the
Moscow Patriarchy press service reported on Saturday.
Gundyayev was sent to a punishment cell for participation in secret
church services which Solovki clergymen conducted in the nearby woods.
"Very few people returned from Sekirnaya Hill but God was merciful to
my grandfather although his punishment was severe. It's a miracle that he
remained alive," Patriarch Kirill said.
A punitive cell notoriously famous as 'Sekirka' was located in the
Priory Church of Ascension in the times of the Solovki Special Purpose
Camp. The inmates were kept without upper clothes in the cold and unheated
church. They slept on the stone floor. Very few Sekirka inmates survived
brutal tortures. Those who were sentenced to death were executed at the
foot of the mountain.
Vasily Gundyayev, Patriarch Kirill's grandfather, was imprisoned and
exiled several times in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s for church activities.
He became a priest in the mid-1950s.
-0-fil/
ZHUKOVSKY, the Moscow region, August 23 (Itar-Tass) - The MAKS-2009
International Aerospace Show is wrapping up on Sunday. Despite the global
economic crisis, the show confirmed its reputation of being one of the
world's biggest aviation forums.
Over the past six days dozens of major deals were struck on the
sidelines of MAKS-2009. Official representatives of leading aviation firms
made a number of serious statements and defined plans for the industry's
further development.
The Zhukovsky airfield was crowded with spectators over the past two
days. Despite cold weather and rain, the schedule of exhibition flights
was not changed. None of the flights were cancelled although minor
corrections had to be made to the exhibition programs of aerobatics teams.
Russian pilots have prepared a fascinating exhibition program for the
show's closing ceremony.
The Russkiye Vityazi (the Russian Knights) aerobatics group will
perform one flight over Zhukovsky on four Su-27 planes at approximately
16:50 Moscow time on Sunday despite earlier reports that the team would
not participate in MAKS-2009 because of the tragic death of its commander
Igor Tkachenko, 45, in an air crash on August 16.
.Arkhangelsk is last stop in Patriarch Kirill's northern trip.
ARKHANGELSK, August 23 (Itar-Tass) -Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
Kirill will finish his four-day tour of the Russian North in Arkhangelsk
on Sunday, the press service of the Arkhangelsk regional administration
told Itar-Tass.
The festive jangle of bells on a mobile bell-tower that has been
mounted on the city's main square in front of the regional drama theatre
will herald the patriarch's arrival. The belfry is standing on a place of
the former St. Trinity Cathedral, which was destroyed in 1929.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church will lead a church service and
consecrate the first brick laid in the basement of a future St. Trinity
Chapel on the place of the altar of the former regional church of St.
Trinity.
After that, the patriarch will visit a construction site of the Church
of Archangel Michael to bless its construction. The Church of Archangel
Michael will be the main church in the Pomorye region. It's being built on
donations from god-believers. Its foundation will rest on pillars with the
names of the donators. A campaign to raise funds for 'name' bricks that
will be used for building the church's walls is under way in Arkhangelsk.
Patriarch Kirill will meet the city and regional public at the
Arkhangelsk Drama Theatre named after Mikhail Lomonosov. The 1,500-seat
theatre hall is unlikely to accomodate all those who would like to meet
the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Therefore, it will be broadcast
live on large sceens on the theatre's building. Microphones will be
installed outside the theatre so as people could address their questions
to the patriarch.
A day before, on Saturday, Patriarch Kirill visited the Solovki
Islands where he discovered museum documents about his grandfather Vasily
Gundyayev. He was kept in punitive confinement on the Sekirnaya Hill on
Solovki's Grand Island during Stalin's purges in the 20th century.
During his visit to the Priory Church of Ascension on Sekirnaya Hill
the head of the Russian the patriarch saw a museum exposition devoted to
the tragic events in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. He
discovered a copy of a document proving that his granddad Vasily Gundyayev
had spent thirty days in punitive confinement on Sekirnaya Hill, the
Moscow Patriarchy press service reported on Saturday.
Gundyayev was sent to a punishment cell for participation in secret
church services which Solovki clergymen conducted in the nearby woods.
"Very few people returned from Sekirnaya Hill but God was merciful to
my grandfather although his punishment was severe. It's a miracle that he
remained alive," Patriarch Kirill said.
A punitive cell notoriously famous as 'Sekirka' was located in the
Priory Church of Ascension in the times of the Solovki Special Purpose
Camp. The inmates were kept without upper clothes in the cold and unheated
church. They slept on the stone floor. Very few Sekirka inmates survived
brutal tortures. Those who were sentenced to death were executed at the
foot of the mountain.
Vasily Gundyayev, Patriarch Kirill's grandfather, was imprisoned and
exiled several times in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s for church activities.
He became a priest in the mid-1950s.
-0-fil/
