St. Michael's Cathedral

Izhevsk, Russia

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Saint Michael's Cathedral in Izhevsk, Russia, is a Russian Revival Orthodox church designed by Ivan Charushin, a 19th-century architect from Vyatka. Originally constructed between 1897 and 1915, the cathedral features a striking red-brick composition crowned by a tent-like roof rising 67 metres, surrounded by massive chapels topped with gilded bulbous domes and slender belfries. The porches echo seventeenth-century Muscovite church architecture with sharply pitched roofs. The cathedral's creation was uniquely tied to the local Izhevsk arms factory: Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, whose patron saint was Michael the Archangel, championed the factory's development, and its employees contributed one percent of their wages to fund the church's construction. Demolished by Soviet authorities in 1937, the cathedral was faithfully reconstructed between 2004 and 2007 according to Charushin's original designs. Today it rivals the older Alexander Nevsky Cathedral as a principal Orthodox church of Udmurtia and holds status as a regional cultural heritage site.