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Istra is a town and the administrative center of Istrinsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Istra River, 40 kilometers west of Moscow, on the Moscow–Riga railway. Population: 35,111 ; 33,652 ; 35,046 .
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  • 5. St. Nicholas Church Istra
    Lazarus of Bethany, also known as Saint Lazarus or Lazarus of the Four Days, is the subject of a prominent miracle of Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death. The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic traditions offer varying accounts of the later events of his life. In the context of the seven signs in the Gospel of John, the raising of Lazarus is the climactic narrative: exemplifying the power of Jesus over the last and most irresistible enemy of humanity—death. For this reason it is given a prominent place in the gospel.A figure named Lazarus is also mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. The two Biblical characters named Lazarus have sometimes been conflated historically, but are generally understood to be two separate people. The name Lazar...
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  • 8. High Voltage Research Center Istra
    The Istra High Voltage Research Center, also dubbed The High Voltage Marx and Tesla Generators Research Facility, was a Soviet operated testing facility built in the 1970s outside the town of Istra, 40 kilometers west of Moscow and operated by the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
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  • 10. Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery Zvenigorod
    The Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. It is the preeminent landmark of Zvenigorod, a town 48 km west of Moscow. In 1398, Prince Yuri of Zvenigorod asked Savva, or Sabbas, one of the first disciples of Sergius of Radonezh, to come to his capital city and set up a monastic abode on the Storozhi Holm . St. Savva of Storozhi was interred in the white stone cathedral of the Virgin's Nativity in 1407. This diminutive, roughly hewn church still stands, although its present-day exquisite look is the result of a 1970s restoration campaign. The frescoes in the altar date back to the 1420s, but the rest of the interior was painted in 1656. A magnificent iconostasis in five tiers and the Stroganov School royal doors ...
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