On April 16, the award winners of a children’s creative contest named “Pokrovsky Cathedral: from A to Z” received their prizes at the State Historical Museum. 
The contest “Pokrovsky Cathedral: from A to Z” was held in 2016 from January 25 to April 18. Over 1000 children living in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus took part in it. Tatyana Saracheva, director of the SHM branch “Pokrovsky Cathedral” and the arranger of the contest, said they had managed to write the Pokrovsky Cathedral ABC providing its generalized and special image. Over 970 projects had taken part in the competition. A great number of them had been done by teams or regular families. The judges of the contest had had to work hard to select the winners. They turned out to be children living in Belarus, Moscow, the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, the Irkutsk and Smolensk regions, the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Komi Republic, Crimea and other Russian regions. 
About 200 guests including the award winners, their teachers and parents as well as the partners of the contest gathered at the great hall of the State Historical Museum. A great number of young award winners had come to Moscow from distant places and had had a chance to see Pokrovsky Cathedral, the Red Square and the Historical Museum with their own eyes for the first time. After the names of the contest winners had been announced and prizes and gifts had been handed out, there was a tour of Pokrovsky Cathedral arranged for the participant of the event. 
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