Morozovsk

History

Administrative and municipal status

Military

Attractions

• Near the train station is a monument to the steam Locomotive.
• Morozov Museum was opened in 1994. The Museum building was built in the early twentieth century on the outskirts of the former farm Lyubimov. The facade of the Museum there are four bas-relief. On two bas-reliefs shows a smithy with two blacksmiths, harrowing land, two drawn by oxen, on the other — Cossack on horseback with guns.
• Monument to the fallen soldiers of the Soviet army who died during the great Patriotic war.
• A monument in honor of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany — the MiG-21.
• The Church Of The Intercession Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. The Church was built by the project Fomin, Konstantin Ivanovich in 1914. The Church was consecrated on 25 April 1915. The Church operated until the mid 1930-ies. Was built next to a military town and the Church were in its territory. So the temple remained standing until the end of 1940-ies. During the war the temple was destroyed the bell tower. After the war the Church was a military warehouse. In 2001 began the restoration of the temple. In the temple are the icon of St. Nikolay Popov with relics, the icon of Matrona of Moscow with a particle of the relics, the icon of the Holy virgin.

  Literature

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• Военный энциклопедический словарь. М., Военное издательство, 1984.
• Справочник «Освобождение городов: Справочник по освобождению городов в период Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945». М. Л. Дударенко, Ю. Г. Перечнев, В. Т. Елисеев и др. М.: Воениздат, 1985. 598 с.