In 1805 by the decree of Emperor Alexandr I there Lipetsk Mineral Waters was resort opened. Nowadays the Lipetsk sanatoriums offer you a special medical programme: treatment of gastric, nervous and locomotor diseases and many more.
Also for your service: sports grounds, swimming pools, tennis courts, beaches in the centre of the city and on the outskirts, boating and sailing, horse riding, paddling on the rivers of the Lipetsk region, hunting, fishing, falconry, theatric battles of Russian warriors of the times of the Koulikovo Battle, aviation shows, rock-climbing and climbing competitions in the open air, concerts, soirees and festivals of amateur songs, Mongolfier balloons, sport planes and helicopter journeys, parachute jumps, saunas, restaurants, casinos, night clubs and much more.
Sights
Thr Drevne-Uspensky church (of the Old Assumption)
Long before the small town of Lipetsk appeared on the MAP of Russia, there existed an ancient settlement, a so-called Gorodishche — the site of an ancient town. The town's further history is tightly associated with metallurgical plants of Peter the Great’s times that emerged in the 18th century, as well as a health resort. Probably, not many people know that right from the centre of the lower park which was founded in the times of Peter I one can find ones way to a most interesting architectural site — the temple of the Old Assumption.
The beautiful white-stone church built in the 17th century on the site of the ancient Paroiskaya Hermitage, is still able to win one's heart with its elegance and simplicity, despite numerous reconstructions. There were also famous monastery springs near the temple. Andreev is considered the architect of a wooden chapel above the holy spring. Due to the efforts of the famous architect I.P. Mashkov, the church was included in the “Russian Sights List” in 1890, and admitted to be a monument of religious architecture. However, after the revolution is was given over to a local “Watercanaltrust” enterprise, and the springs were buried. By the way, the famous Peter pool grew shallow as a result of the springs being destroyed.
The barbarous attitude toward the temple resulted in its virtual destruction. Only in the 1950s did Mashkov's apprentice press for state protection for the temple; in the 1960s it was made a historical monument, and its restoration was government-funded. By 1991 the restoration was completed and the temple was returned to the Orthodox Church in 1996 after an appeal to the government. Divine services have been celebrated in the temple since 1997.
One more surprising event took place there: one of the monastery springs managed to find its way to the surface. Our town can boast of just one such spring that was preserved in the Kamenny ravine. Today, the site where the temple of the Old Assumption is situated is one of the most beautiful places in our town.
Clergymen: Prior, celibate priest Afanasi (Medvedev)
Address: building 80à, S.-Shchedrin/Monastyrka St., Lipetsk, 398020.
Tel. (0742) 46-28-53
Services:
Monday-Sunday: 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m.
The Christo-Rozhdestvensky Church (of Christ’s advent)
Unlike the temple of the Old Assumption which is situated in a quiet place, this church is erected on the top of a hill. The temple was laid out in 1791 to the design of an Italian architect Tomaso Adomini (though his authorship is questionable), and completed by 1842 under the direction of Nikolay Ivanovich Ladyghin. The well-proportioned outline of the church was seen from any point of the town, and the chime drifted above Lipetsk heralding sorrow and joy. The temple became the most esteemed and often-visited place; respected priests were buried within its walls. But after the revolution the church shared the fate of many Russian churches: it was ransacked, its premises were turned into warehouses, and its refectory became a museum of regional studies. Not until 1991, was the temple handed back to the eparchy. The Church and the parish together restored the temple to its former look, and it is currently the centre of Lipetsk spiritual life where one can find consolation and gain peace. A Sunday school is open at the church.
Clergymen: Prior – archpriest Andrei Voronko; priest Sergei Kosykh, priest Vladimir Seltsov, priest Alexander Donskikh; archdeacon Ephimiy; deacon Dimitriy.
Address: 4, Sobornaya square, Lipetsk, 398000.
Tel. (0742) 24-22-93, 24-04-78.
Services:
- Monday, Tuesday 7.00 a.m. and 5 p.m.
- Wednesday, Saturday 8.00 a.m., 5 p.m.
- Sunday 6.30 a.m., 8.30 a.m., 5 p.m.
The Church of the Transfiguration (Preobrazhenia)
The church situated in the Kamenny ravine was initially intended as a cemetery church. It was built over 30 years (1808-1838), and was funded by widow Alexandra Petrovna Satinskaya. It was consecrated in 1840. In March 1939, the church was closed and stood empty until April 1946. In 1989, bells were placed on the belfry, and in 1992, a two-storied building for a baptism house, a Sunday school and a Host house was built. About 90 children attend the Sunday school today, there is a spiritual and church library. Today, the temple is one of the most popular churches in the regional centre.
Clergymen: Prior — archpriest Bayazov Vladimir Gerasimovich; priest — archpriest Morozov Evgeni Vseveledovich; deacon — Rubin Sergei Anatolievich.
Address: 143, Negelin St., Lipetsk, 398059
Tel. (0742) 74-48-12, 77-87-66
Services:
- Monday 8.00 a.m. and 5 p.m.
- Tuesday — Wednesday 7.00 and 5 p.m.
- Thursday — Sunday 5 p.m.
The Nikolsky Church (of St. Nicolas)
One of the most interesting from an architectural point of view is the Nikolsky prison church. Designed by I.P Mashkov in the Old Russian style, the temple was erected in 1830 with the funds of the mayor M.A. Klyuev. It is an unusual phenomenon in town life. It was built near a town jail and soon became a prison church. The temple was closed right after the revolution, and its premises were used as prison workshops. The church practically turned into a prison: until 1991 there were administrative rooms and investigating chambers there. After the church was given back to the eparchy, the restoration process began. Active construction began in on summer 1994; besides the premises being renovated a new building was erected to serve as a baptism house, a Sunday school, a library, and a belfry. By the summer of 2000, the church gained its present look. It is a valuable 19th century monument of Pseudo-Russian style and is of particular interest for art critics.
Clergymen: Prior — priest Joann Rakov, deacon — father Vadim
Address: 16, Torgovaya square, Lipetsk, 398001
Tel. (0742)77-24-31
Services:
- Monday-Saturday 7.00 a.m. and 5 p.m.
- Sunday 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m.
The Zadonsky Monastery of the Advent of the Blessed Virgin
The Lipetsk region is famous far beyond the Central Chernozem Zone not only for its metal but also for its centres of spiritual life — the cloisters. Two of the best known are the Zadonsky monastery of the Advent of the Blessed Virgin and the Tikhonovskaya Convent of the Transfiguration. These places are particularly respected due to their holy springs. They have long ago become famous outside the Central Chernozem Zone; they inspire so vivid an interest that it actively helps to include the town of Zadonsk into the program of the Silver Ring of Russia.
Founded by Cyrill and Gerasim, the devout old schema monks of the Monastery of the Candlemas Day, the church suffered much during its life. Thus, there was not a building left after a fire in 1692, only an icon of Our Lady of Vladimir that was brought by the elders to the Don survived it. A stone temple was erected in the name of this icon in 1736-1741.
The heyday of the monastery came in 1769, with the advent of Tikhon the Consecrator of Zadonsk who was a spiritually just man and possessed a God-blessed healing gift. After his death in 1783, a tradition of pilgrimage to his grave emerged.
In the early 19th century the monastery was reconstructed upon the design of A. Ton: a five-domed temple in the name of the icon of Our Lady of Vladimir was erected. During the construction work, the uncorrupted relics of Tikhon were found. On 13 August, 1861, a glorification was celebratied. About 300,000 pilgrims came for the ceremonial opening of the relics.
By the early 20th century the Zadonsky monastery presented a whole town consisting of six churches, a belfry, a house for wanderers, a hospital, a chemist's shop, two brick factories, a candle factory, and a parish school. The monastery community consisted of about 300 monks.
The monastery was one of the first to suffer during the revolution, it was brutally devastated and destroyed. The monastery buildings were used by the Zadonsk town services.
The monastery was restored only in 1990. The relics of Tikhon the Consecrator and 11 Zadonsk just men, as well as the holy springs are subject to particular respect and worship. The latter numbered 20 before the revolution, but today only the two most respected springs are restored. A church for the “Picturesque spring” icon of Our Lady is restored above the spring at the monastery wall.
Prior: Bishop of Zadonsk Nikon, vicar of Voronezhsko-Lipetsk eparchy
Address: 14, Kommuny St., Lipetsk region.
Tel. (07471) 210-54
There are 352 churches restored and open in the eparchy of Voronezh and Lipetsk, about the same number of churches are currently being reconstructed. But we have to note bitterly that mentioning in occasional documents and lists is all that is left of some churches, and there is no way to bring back the lost.
Finally we would like to note that the Orthodox Church is currently busy with huge restoration work, and no help in this glorious work would be unnecessary.
HOTELS
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| Hotel
| Address
| Tel
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| 1
| Hotel-hostel of the administration
| Kouznechtnaya St., 8
| (0742)77-07-09 (director)
(0742)77-07-02 (administrator)
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| 2
| Dynamo
| K. Marx St., 27
| (0742)77-94-08
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| 3
| Lesnoy dom (Forest house)
| -
| (0742)44-01-40
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| 4
| Lipetsk
| Lenin St., 11
| (0742)27-14-56 (director)
(0742)27-72-17 (administrator)
(0742)27-72-87 (reception)
(0742)27-44-01 (chief accountant)
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| 5
| Sovetskaya
| Voroshilov St., 5
| (0742)77-76-83 (director)
(0742)77-23-11 (administrator)
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| 6
| Metallurg
| Mira Av., 20
| (0742)43-16-54 (director)
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| 7
| Melallurg, branch
| Dovator St., 4
| (0742)40-38-86
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| 8
| Pilot
| Airport
| (0742)21-88-59 (administrator)
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| 9
| Tourist
| K. Marx St., 1
| (0742)77-07-98 (administrator)
(0742)45-60-31
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| 10
| Stroitel`
| Suvorov St., 24
| (0742)43-60-92 (administrator)
<0742)43-60-93 (director)
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| 11
| GTS
| 60 years of the USSR St., 5-234
| (0742)40-45-75
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| 12
| Russ
| Ilyich St., 31-a
| (0742)73-16-90
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| 13
| Metallurg, branch
| Lenin St., 26
| (0742)24-13-11 (administrator)
(0742)24-50-12 (director)
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| 14
| Metallurg, branch
| Proletarskaya St.,13
| (0742)47-71-83
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TRAVEL AGENCIES
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| Agency
| Address
| Tel
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| 1
| Zvezdniy put`
| Lipetsk, Voroshilov St., 3
| (0742)74-05-07, 47-54-27
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| 2
| Lipetsk-Centrtour
| Lipetsk, Lenin St., 11
| (0742)277-270, 277-999
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| 3
| Magazin puteshestviy
| Lipetsk, Sovietskaya St., 71
| (0742)275-000
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| 4
| Navigator
| Lipetsk, Pobedy St., 8
| (0742)47-51-51, 45-60-30
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| 5
| Panoramatour
| Lipetsk, Sovietskaya St.,7
| (0742)77-32-21, 24-53-85
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| 6
| Sed`moy kontinent (Seventh kontinent)
| Lipetsk, Gagarin St., 106
| (0742)35-37-07, 34-74-36
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| 7
| Tenbi
| Lenin St., 23
| (0742)47-07-07
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DEPARTMENT FOR RHYSICAL
CULTURE, SPORTS AND TOURISM
OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE
LIPETSK REGION
Lenin St., 24
Tel.: (0742)77-93-81, 27-79-99
Fax: (0742)77-42-59
E-mail: sport_tourism@admlr.ru
Web site: welcome.lipetsk.ru
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Lipetsk region
