• Uspensky cathedral
• St Peter and St Paul's Church
• The church of Dimitry Rostovsky
• Sign of the Biya river

Uspensky cathedral

Uspensky cathedral is one of the main sights of Biysk, the center of its orthodox life.

Before in the history of the city there were two Uspensky temples. The first, wooden, constructed in the 18th century, the second, stone, staid hundred years to the beginning of the 20th century. This cathedral became the third. It was constructed on money of merchant Michael Sychev in the memory of his died wife.

Building was begun in 1898. The project of future temple, which author still remains unknown, was made in the Russian-Byzantian style.

The Tobolsk and Tomsk master bricklayers built the church, and an iconostasis Sacred the Images the Tobolsk spiritual consistory ordered in Tver and Yaroslavl.

In 1903 the construction of the temple was complete and it opened the doors for parishioners. Archpriest Vladimir Dagayev became its first prior. Two biggest bells, cast by the Ural masters were a subject of pride of the inhabitants. The altar and side-altars were consecrated in 38 Sacred Images.

By 1908 in the temple there have been some educational institutions: parish man's school; parishional man's school of the Ministry of national education; Nikolaev female school.

In the 1930s the Uspensky cathedral, as well as many temples in the country, the sad fate comprehended: it was closed and adapted under the granary. And many of priests were arrested.

The revival of the temple took place only in 1947 when between members of parishional council of the Uspensky temple and executive committee of the Biysk City Council of deputies the contract of transfer the temple and cult subjects to a parishional community was signed.

In 1994 under decree of the Barnaul and Altai bishop Antony the Uspensky temple began to be called as a cathedral, and in 1998 received the status of the metropolian.

The Uspensky cathedral not casually is considered one of the most beautiful churches of the Altai Region. It is impossible to pass by magnificent wall lists of a cathedral, and small, but unique according to the project iconostasis many people consider as the real pearl of the orthodox Altai. If you will visit the cathedral in one of church holidays, you will enjoy the sound of bells, cast for the Uspensky temple by the Voronezh masters.

Address: Biysk, Sovetskaya str, 11

St. Peter and St. Paul's Church

The first orthodox temple in the Bikatunsky fortress (later Biysk), is destroyed now.

The history of building and destiny of this cathedral are very remarkable. According to city plan of Biysk in 1748 and 1750, the church was settled in the place where now a timber mill settlement is situated. The order on its construction was received on Christmas of 1748. The temple was constructed by strengths of local Cossacks and military garrison – the dragoon and the soldier-infantrymen. The construction of the Church was finished in autumn of 1749, but its sanctification was put off up to the spring of the next year. It took place on April 23, 1750, on the eve of celebration of Sacred Easter. The majority of its icons are works of the gifted artist, the self-educated icon painter, the soldier of a garrison company of the Yenisei infantry regiment Peter Berezkin.

He had worked on icons for two years and received for the work 10 rubles which on the same day he sacrificed to the temple. Besides, Berezkin and Cossack Timofey Habarovwith decorated an intricate carving wooden covers of icons and an altar gates.

The garrison cut down the temple quite soundly, and for the first time it was repaired only in 1765. By order of the commandant colonel Simeon Kolobov floors were re-made and the new fence, instead of the decayed one, was made. In 1772, the first temple of the city was described as: «There is a Church of Sacred Apostles Peter and Paul. A structure is wooden, strong, about two apartments with a bell tower and has rooms for any services.»

The young priest Andrey Andronnikov sent to a fortress from Barnaul in 1749 became the first priest of the St.Peter and St.Paul’s Church.

In 1766 in parish of the St.Peter and St.Paul’s church 3814 people were registered. Except garrison of a fortress and its civilian population of 14 neighboring villages entered here.

The temple suffered much, during a summer fire in 1778. Services in it were stopped and, possibly, in the first third of the 19th century it was disassembled.

The church of Dimitry of Rostov

The church of Dimitry of Rostov is one of five churches operating in Biysk now. It received the present name in 1994, and before, for more than hundred years, named for the sake of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God.

Change of the name is connected with unusual history of the temple. Constructed in 1891, instead of the burned-down church of the Kazan Mother of God, in the 30th years of the 20th century, the temple was closed. And more than 60 years it was used not for the designated purpose: at first the stable, then - soldier's club, the sports hall, later – a vegetable storehouse and a warehouse fuels and lubricants were here.

However in May 1991 His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' Alexy II visited Biysk, and at his request the city administration decided to return the building of the temple to the believers.

After large-scale repair it was open again. But, already under the new name, because there was no access to archival documents the end of 19th-the beginning of the 20th centuries.

Having entered into the temple, you will notice, that new walls are decorated with ancient images, by miracle avoided destruction at the time of persecutions on Church and remained up to now. Among them there is an icon of prelate Dimitry, the metropolitan of Rostov, with a particle of sacred relics, an icon of prelate Nikolay, the archbishop Mirlikiysky, the miracle man. If you approach to an icon of the great martyr and healer Panteleymon and look narrowly at it, you will possibly see an inscription: «This icon is written and consecrated on St. the Athos Mountain in a monastery of St. Prophet Iliya at archimandrite Gabriel. 1893». Probably, this is one of many icons which were specially written for the Altai spiritual mission on sacred Mountain the Athos, and then were brought to Biysk.

Address: Biysk, Muhacheva str, 228a

Sign of the Biya river

September 4, 2014 not far from the local beach, close to the bridge a memorial sign of the river Biya and Biysk boatmen was opened.

History of Biysk navigation goes back to the beginning of the 17th century, when the Cossacks-pioneers began to explore the Biya. In 1709, they reached the confluence of the Biya and Katun where the Biysk fortress was built. From that time the history of the city of Biysk originates. In 1865 the river navigation with Biysk was established. "Biya Shipping and Trade Company" was established in the late 19th century.

June 19, 2014 deputies of the city Duma decided to instal the memorial sign, an anchor, that became another symbol of the Victory Park. People have already invented a good omen - if you rub the anchor stock, then it will certainly bring good luck!

Interesting fact: this very anchor was raised from the bottom of the Biya. According to experts, it belonged to one of the steamers of Biysk merchants. Its weight is 250 kg, height is 160 cm.