but most importantly, the shrine of this temple, of course, the miraculous icon of panteleimon the healer, by the way, with particles of the relics of the saint himself, and breakdowns come to this icon from all over the world. new athos is a very small town with a population of just over one and a half thousand tourists and pilgrims every day here, and sometimes more. but the monastery is known not only for its shrines, a picturesque waterfall on the river, psyrsha, man-made - this is a dam. it was built by monks a century and a half ago, it turned out to be a complex hydraulic structure. by the way, it solved three problems local hermits was drained marshy. the floodplain of the river appeared as a reservoir for breeding fish, and in the monastery cells. electricity has arrived. yes, yes, this is one of the first mini-hydros in the russian empire, by the way, after restoration in 2012. it still generates electricity regularly. you can meet interesting objects of the soviet era, look, it seems to hang over. well, yes, and you won’t believe it, there was no time, a railway station here, e