[000:00:00;00] as a crow approaching victory, walking with death, continuing the thousand-year-old tradition of state-building in ukraine, proclaiming ukraine an independent democratic state on august 24, 1991, yes, rice to you, sla green mountains, ice-covered roads, ivan the knight and the great god , do not forget. thousands

of years of state formation , 105 years of struggle, 32 years of restoration of independence. and in the rear and with all our might we clench our teeth and move on because we have something that does not extinguish our secret power, the source of which is in ourselves every day, every second , february 24, life has stopped what to do, how to live on, no one needs me, acting, no way out, i suddenly found a neighbor in a yazaur made of felt and gave it to me, and when my friend was going to the front and passed the armed forces, i gave it to him and told him to wear it, let it keep you warm , then i received a letter, my friend, this is necessary for everyone. warm

the night is the same in life, so it is also difficult for you to find a way out. if you want to learn how to help yourself and others, go to the website how are you.com. i think this temple is of great importance for odessa , because any holiday, for example, easter , easter is always a son here came. there were always many

people at the services, and everyone celebrated in peaceful times. everything was very good, and for the children this is an important place . the alarm went off. after 15-20 minutes, two people arrived. i opened the door and they entered. there was one explosion not far away. i shouted to them. for them to run i went downstairs by myself to the security room, and at that time the explosion went out. i got hit a little in the head. i went out into the corridor. i don't see the door. there are no windows. there is nothing in the temple. the fire is going. i take the

fire extinguisher and run to the one. people have already been damaged, the firemen have arrived, and there is water, where is the hoses, i was one of the first to come here, it was on fire, and here the church bench caught fire , which was made of a very beautiful oak carving , the cathedral is the largest in ukraine, its length is 95 m and the bench is at the very end and the landing was at the other end of the altar and the debris of the rocket, they are all over the cathedral, you can see that there is a lot of damage, the painting and the bench caught fire, the main fire was here where we are standing here at this mass, here is a fresh bench

, it was on fire, it was at the corner and at the top, there were two fires, i only reached i didn't go any further from the middle of the temple because it started to rain. no, i'm also a little nervous, and if the roller fell somewhere near the cathedral, you have to understand that there are such ancient houses nearby , they are very weak, that's what the experts say, it's... m there could be dozens of dead and more the cathedral could have been more shaken, he took this entire blow and saved people's lives. there were five people in the cathedral during the explosion, and they all got out. no one was hurt

, only our guard, he got minor minor injuries . in peru, in the hospital, they took a picture of a serious injury, there is nothing. well, what was the shaking? we can't talk first about the founding of odessa in 1994. rather, we are talking about the renaming of odessa and the formation of a new project called first hadjebey, and then the port city of odesa appears there under this name, when the new project was being built, the territory of hadjebe was almost surrounded, and according to the general plan of the new city , drawings were made that had

two temples under them, which were supposed to appear at the beginning of construction at that moment it was considered that they would be enough, this is the chapel of st. catherine on the modern catherine square and the church of st. nicholas, which appeared at the place where the cathedral now stands and these two churches were the main balls, we are at least there christian orthodoxy, since odessa is a very powerful economic project and the city developed very quickly, small churches did not fulfill the functions that should be in the church in life, and the maximum number of believers who can come and make a mistake , lay some service there, and then reconstruction begins and development is first accepted the decision that this particular cathedral will be a cathedral and the mykolaiv cathedral becomes a cathedral, eh, from that , the construction of the main altar part is completed, which is almost in the form in which

it is now only without the refectory, which was connected to the bell, in the 37th year , a separate bell was completed, and already at the end of the 19th century, it was all combined into a single ensemble, which was supposed to accommodate about 9,000 believers, that is, it is considered that it was one of the most magnificent temples of the russian empire of its time, in the pages of books and periodicals, we find numerous evidences of the possible role and place of the cathedral in the lives of the citizens of that time, in the publication dedicated to the century since the consecration of the odesa transfiguration cathedral, it is said

about whether it is possible to enumerate all the benefits enjoyed by true christians during the past century, in all colors, the temple, the temple, the cathedral, from the very beginning of its existence, was a place of public prayers for all citizens of the city. well, like any temple, it received a lot of money from those people who came there for service , how is this happening now, yes, after the destruction of the russian missile, a lot of people immediately brought money there, there was a basket there, we know for sure that when we had reconstruction going on there from 1999 to 2000, when it was restored, there was also a lot of money from patrons, from sponsors, ordinary people , not coins, so that they were remelted into bells. i am sure that the same story happened in the 19th

century, almost never a temple was built without the participation of those people who lived around and were waiting for this holiday to appear in them , in addition to the texts of contemporaries and researchers of past years, which allow us to find out the author's evaluative position, left us from previous generations and such a unique sources such as images, in particular postcards, engravings, etc. here i am holding in my hands a photo of the cathedral from more than 100 years ago, as we can see , this building is almost identically reproduced and this allows us to compare what this building was like in its external manifestations, its architectural charms

, its space and its placement, its towers, well it is difficult for me to estimate how much each of the odessans , er, he treated him there like the dawn , well, at least in passing, we must understand that for a long time there in the 19th century, and even there until 1941 , a third of the odessans were of the jewish faith, they were jews, that is, for them he definitely did not have any sacred significance. and we also had catholics. and we also had lutherans. a beautiful building in the center of the city, the bolsheviks destroyed the temples there at the beginning of the 22nd year. so when there was a great famine and all the valuables of the temples of any denomination were used by the bolsheviks , as it were, to buy grain there

for all those who suffered from the famine, in fact this was precisely the first step of the total destruction of the faith of the church in soviet russia and the salvation of the transfiguration cathedral, i believe that the bolsheviks were not even ready to encroach on it immediately, that is why it survived , unlike other churches in the city why would i raise documents when in the 23rd year almost, well, there and in the 70s and 80s, all the temples were closed, and this one lasted until the 32nd , so the 32nd was closed and all the valuables that could be taken out were first dismantled it was sold to be remelted or there to somehow still use it in order to get rich, this is precisely

the story of the famine of the 32-33 famine, then all the values ​​went there for, and we understand me, not the purchase of food, again for the industrialization and militarization of the soviet country, and for four years they still they held out without destroying it, and in 1936 a final decision was made, the cathedral was completely dismantled to the foundation, its location was closed there, and there was a children's playground, i remember on one of the photos something like a plan electrification of the soviet union yes. where did lenin stalin sit, and then there were such flowerbeds, as it were, with rivers, such fountains between them, and such layouts of our hydroelectric power plants , that is, the installation

was still there at this place, and it was separately looted. when the cathedral was destroyed, the cathedral was destroyed, the burials of mykhailo vorontsov and elizaveta were destroyed, not vorontsov's graves, their sarcophagi were buried, everything that was there, orders , decorations, they were, er, ransacked, so they would have been scattered and someone would have collected them later they were taken to the slobid cemetery, where they lay until the last moment , until they were returned to the lower church of the cathedral . that is, how the vandals of the bolsheviks behaved, it was such a common thing for them at the end of the 90s. yes, a decision was made to restore it . first, the foundation was localized, it was opened, it was found out that it was preserved , it can be used to start building on it again, and somewhere from 1999, the design work there was completed

, it seems that construction began quickly enough it was, the cathedral was restored according to the same drawings, the same proportions, completely in which it was there at the time of the conditional 36th year , then in 1999, i worked as the leading architect of the enterprise dispr communal enterprise , which was the director of this institution under the main administration of architecture and urban planning of odesa was volodymyr mishchanikov . that's how we got the order for this building. well, i understood . so we had to build a replica of this old cathedral as accurately as possible

, which was blown up in 1936. but very there was not enough material, unfortunately, it appeared a little later, and at the beginning, we were walking like this, well, it was obvious. well, then there were photos that were of better quality, and there were more of them, and we already saw them. some places where there are alters, interior, some details, and it was already easier, then they made geodesic measurements, but they are much more accurate, and we built this temple according to them already on the same place, so yes , of course, where it stood, at first such a cross

, cross-shaped, was built the cathedral is very large, and then some 20 years later it was built separately when the color and then some 20 years later. these two buildings were connected by such a nave . so the temple turned out to be very disproportionate . that's why it means, well, because it was three buildings that were built at different times on different foundations, and there it must be said that the geological conditions in this place are very difficult, and that is why i think that this building had big problems even then, and that is why i think that then somewhere at the beginning of the 20th century, there was a reconstruction of this temple, it

was done according to the sketch of odesa architect todorov. this is this temple. then in 903 , it acquired these features that we see in these last impressions. they got this from the original photos. lottery, what were there? well, the central strike was so made of marble , it was very i think it had such a solemn look already in those days, russia is demonstrating its efforts , so keep us all in this context

of the russian world, yes and if you remember there history, when luzhkov came to sevastopol and we are always russian citizens . we will support you there. the same thing was done by kirill in odessa. odessa was always perceived by russia as its own city, and it was such a clear marker . conduct the consecration of the main christian temple of the moscow patriarchate, that is, there is nothing to comment on here, we understand the figure of gundyaev in today's russian politics, if he is not the second person after putin, then he is definitely the first

three, five, influential russian murderers, and he was the one in odessa , no comments, this is the church, this is the favorite cathedral of odessans, and i will tell you that this is the favorite cathedral of many other people who live in our country, and even those people who live in other countries and earlier, all the ships that came to odessa, all excursions started from our cathedral, that's very per day, uh, one or two thousand foreigners came from the liners, who looked and they were delighted with this beauty that

the odessans built for the odessans, first of all, it's theirs the pride of the pearl of odessa, this is the spiritual heart of odessa, this is our symbol, which we rebuilt as a cathedral, they know it on all continents, in every state today. people have seen these shots, what a barbaric thing russia has done, and i am not ready in principle to talk about any logic when we talk about russians, they are murderers. vandals, they are barbarians, and there you have to take it as a constant, yes. and when we say that this is for us, well , i think that there are enough odessans , it is clear who we are dealing with . we love, we will come to you here, we will directly protect and love, eh final yes, it dissipated with these arrivals, when there is the main temple there, even they are ready to launch missile strikes in

the historical building and not about the fact that people live here, children sleep here, it has a cultural value of the world meaning well, that's why it can't cause anything but additional hatred for them, this is an operation. for us, it 's a war and it's pointless, and we still don't understand and ask ourselves the question from whom they want to liberate us, this is a question that probably i and the others people constantly ask from whom and for what, well, you know how much pain there is when they die. people are familiar there, it's hard to say. another building

. well, this is another pain. it's one and a half thousand objects of cultural heritage, including temples , reserves, libraries, museums, which have suffered significant destruction. unfortunately, in these days this list will also be supplemented by the odesa holy transfiguration cathedral and museum buildings, etc. this indicates that we cannot secure every memorial building in the city, but we must together with ukrainian society, well together with with our foreign partners to ensure that this defense is as effective as possible, we are talking about providing support to ukraine, which defends its borders and, accordingly, defends its historical and cultural heritage, the cathedral for me is my whole life, i have served here since the very

beginning of its construction, when it was separated , i here is every stone, every stage of the construction and which happened successively, the foundation , the bell tower, the lower temple, the upper temple, the opening and the subsequent life of it, therefore, the cathedral for me is my whole life and it is a very big pain well, we understand and we all believe that with god's help, we will restore it there

, it broke with blood, well, you can break it, that this wave can be seen to have gone up. it is possible to restore odessa, it is a very strong and optimistic people, they have a lot of faith, we saw it when it happened odessa, everyone came to help , there were already debris here, the knee-deep cathedral was cleared in four hours and this cathedral square from the right to the left side it is very

the big one was also cleared by people in 5 hours, people, children, women, uh, they took out fragments of glass from the grass, and you can see that now the area is all clean, the scale of the destruction is, of course , very large damage to all the walls, income, it will be very, very long, it will take a long time to restore, but i hope that with the joint efforts of the neighbors of all the citizens of odessa, such simple people as myself, who donated to the temple, we will be able to restore it in the near future. god is not in power, but in truth. our land, our state, our independence, our faith, these citizens of ukraine are waiting for when it will all be over and when we will live peacefully and not be afraid to come

to church and go out. we must understand that we do not choose the times in which we live , the lord gives each generation his trials, this is if we ask our grandparents what they were like times

were also very difficult times and you and i are also today we live in such times that god has given us for testing chevrons that bring victory closer, no one will tell me that i am a hero and i am not asking. i am not here for this, they will not pity me when i am in trouble, but i do not need sympathy, i am not

a hero, but the enemies are all stronger for me, it's not even work, it's a struggle, and i'm not going to be stopped. no ranks, no titles, no statuses. i'm not a hero and i'm not fighting against anyone. and for what and our goal is justice, we defend the state together. if a person close to you has joined the armed forces of ukraine, you should know rank position number of the military unit of the company of the battalion contacts of the commanders and contacts of comrades will be useful keep