The Ascension Cathedral () is a

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church in

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. It used to be one of the largest churches of the

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and the main church of the Don Host Province. The five-domed building, which stands 75 meters tall, is a notable example of the Russian

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. It was erected between 1891 and 1904 on the site of an earlier church. The first church on the site was built to

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's designs. It collapsed in 1846. A replacement church collapsed 17 years later. The existing church building was designed by a local architect, Alexander Yashchenko, and dedicated in 1905. The worshipers were expelled from the church by the Communists in 1934. The Orthodox congregation resumed services in the upper church in 1942, after the Communists had been ousted from the Don Region by the

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. The Starocherkassk and Novocherkassk cathedrals are considered the main spiritual centres of the Don Cossackdom.

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January 1818) was a Russian general who commanded the Don Cossacks in the Napoleonic ...

, Vasily Orlov-Denisov, Yakov Baklanov, and other

ataman Ataman (variants: ''otaman'', ''wataman'', ''vataman''; ; ) was a title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. In the Russian Empire, the term was the official title of the supreme military commanders of the Cossack armies. The Ukra ...

s of the Don Cossack Host are buried in the church. A bronze statue of Yermak, the conqueror of

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, in front of the porch was designed by

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{{reflist Buildings and structures in Novocherkassk Russian Orthodox cathedrals in Russia Churches in Rostov Oblast Churches completed in 1904 Byzantine Revival architecture in Russia Cultural heritage monuments in Novocherkassk Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Rostov Oblast

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