Right Reverend Innokentii (Veniaminov)
- First Bishop of Kamchatka, the Kuril and Aleutian Islands. In 1977 the Russian Orthodox
Church canonized him as the Great Missionary, Apostle of America and Siberia and
Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna.
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Alexandrovsk Post.
«There are wooden pavements along the streets, everywhere is cleaness and order, and even
in the outlying streets, where the poor are pressed close together, there are no puddles
or garbage. The center of the post consists of the church, the Governor of the Island's
house, a post and telegraph agency..
For the most part the houses are new, built in the European style, with iron roofs and
often painted on the outside. There is no lime or good stone on sakhalin, and so there are
no stone buildings..."
-quoted from A. Chekhov's book 'Sakhalin
Island', 1890 - 1895
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 Alexandrovsk
Post. A stone chapel built in honor of Nikolai II, who as Crown Prince traveled to japan
in 1891 and narrowly escaped an attempt on his life there.
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 Alexandrovsk Post. A single-altar wooden church, built in
honor of the Shroud of the Holy Virgin. The Church was sanctified on June 23, 1893.
Architect - Ivan À. Charushin.
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 Iconostasis of the Russian Orthodox Church at Alexandroysk post. |
 Post Due, founded in
1856. The single-altar Orthodox church in Due, built in honor of St. Nikolai the
Miraculous. The church was sanctified on December 22, 1856 |
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Church in Korsakov Post (currently the city of Korsakov, was founded in 1869.)
«The new wooden buildings glisten in the sunshine, and the church shines white, with its
old, simple and therefore beautiful architecture...»
-quoted from A. Chekhov's book 'Sakhalin
Island', 1890 - 1895
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 Korsakov Post.
The single-altar Nikolai the Miraculous wooden church, sanctified on July 26, 1883 |
 Rykovskoye settlement (current-day Kirovskoye) was founded in 1878.
The Russian Orthodox church in Rykovskoye was built in honor of the Kazan Mother of God.
Opened in 1888 to celebrate Easter. Sanctified on June 26,1893 |
The settlement of Vladimirovka (current-day city of
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), founded in 1882. The Russian Orthodox church was built before the
1904-1905 Russian-Japanese War |
The Resurrection of Christ Cathedral in
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Built in 1995. Architect S.M. Michenko. Designer L. Sivko |
 Interior
appointments of the Resurrection of Christ Cathedral |
 The iconostasis of the Resurrection of Christ Cathedral |
 The city of Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky.
Bell from the Zhonkyer lighthouse. A cast inscription states that Alexey Mikhailovich,
Prince and Grand Duke of Russia, donated the bell to Sinozersk Hermitage during the office
of its builder, the Monk Moisey, in 1651.
How this bell wound up in the Zhonkyer lighthouse remains a mystery to this day. Today,
the bell has been moved to the Shroud of the Mother of God Cathedral |
 The
Shroud of the Mother of God Cathedral, Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky |
 Domes of the Shroud of the Mother of God
Cathedral |
 Church of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God, Nevelsk.
Architect S. Michenko |
 Domes of the Nativity of the Holy Mother
of God Cathedral |
 Church of Life-Creating Trinity in
Yuzhno-Kurilsk. Sketch of an idea by the iconpainters of the Voskresensk Cathedral.
Realized by architect A. Utkin. Built in 1999 |
 Domes of the Church of Life-Creating
Trinity |
 Second Millenium og the Nativity of Christ Cathedral in
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, designet in 1999.
Architect S. Michenko, with K. Goilo.
Designers L. Sivko, N Balaganskya |
