lot of churches in the city, they closed them all , only two remained, our cathedral , the alexander nivsky churchded to close this temple too, the motivation was this: it seems to be simple, so they made a statement about what happened here before the war. a business for the production of coffins of all kinds of utensils, such a funeral and there is no point in keeping this church in this cemetery , it needs to be closed, and it was 68, and the temple was built as a monument to russian-bulgarian friendship, in 688 there was just an anniversary 90 years of the liberation of bulgaria from the turkish yoke, from the russian army, father victor, he acted very diplomatically, he wrote an article in the magazine of the moscow patriarchate that this a temple-monument, well, about this, that they are trying to close it, of course he didn’t write it, he simply said that this temple is a monument to russian-bulgarian friendship, that relations with bulgaria were very good, this article with such political overtones helped, and the temple was not closed, and as for friendship with bulgaria, it continues to