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A handful of soil from the world's largest Russian necropolis in the Paris suburb of Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois will be sent to Sevastopol, the website of the World Coordination Council of Russian Compatriots reports. It will be kept in the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God, which is being built in the city.
The land was taken from the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God. The ceremony was timed to coincide with the centenary of the Russian Exodus. It is planned that in the new church soil will be collected from all countries which hosted people who left Russia on the last ships leaving the Crimea after the Civil War.
Together with the scientific center and the museum, which will soon appear on the Crimean land, the temple will become an integral element of the trinity of faith, science and culture, a symbol of strong connection and continuity of generations. The temple in Sevastopol is planned to be opened on November 14.
The centenary of the end of the Civil War will be celebrated in Russia and the world in November 2020. In the autumn of 1920, the last ships of the squadron of the Imperial Black Sea Fleet left the Crimea and Sevastopol. There were almost 150,000 people on board. Now this event is called the Russian Exodus.
Russkiy Mir
