The 1st interregional workshop for bell ringers of the Volga region was held in the Samara diocesetranslated

On November 7 and 8, with the blessing of Metropolitan Theodosius of Samara and Novokuybyshevsk, the First Interregional Workshop for bell ringers of the Volga region was held in the Samara Diocese. The organizers of the event were the rector of the Samara Theological Seminary, Archpriest Maxim Kokarev, as well as the leaders of the Bell Center of the Samara Metropolis at SamDS: teacher of the MBU DO "CDT "Mladost"" JV "DOC "Cyrillic"" Galina Nikolaevna Kulikova and the bell ringer of the church in honor of All Saints who shone in the land of Samara, Alexander Vladimirovich Zhukovsky. 78 bell ringers from Ulyanovsk, Kazan, Saratov, Tolyatti, Syzran and Samara took part in the workshop. On the first day, the participants visited the Iversky Convent and the Intercession Cathedral on an excursion, after which a conference was held within the walls of the Samara Theological Seminary. The invited masters presented reports on the history of the development of bell art and various ringing techniques.

Senior researcher of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Volkhonsky, head of the school of bell-ringers of the Intercession Church of the Ramensky district of the Moscow region Pavel Viktorovich Lyalin, as well as heads of bell-ringing schools from…