Old Russian fishing village on the Barents Sea coast may get its destroyed churches rebuilt
The Russian Orthodox Church continues to increase its presence in the North. Last year, it installed orthodox crosses on Svalbard and Franz Josef Land. In April, it announced that it would build new churches on Novaya Zemlya to serve the 12th Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense responsible for nuclear weapons. It also has plans to build a 70-meter tall cathedral, as well as a spiritual and sports center, the first one in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Arctic city of Murmansk.
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