"Salvation is Created" is a choral work composed by Pavel Chesnokov in 1912 as the fifth in his Ten Communion Hymns (Op.
It was one of the last sacred works he composed before he turned to secular arts when the Soviet government began to suppress Christianity.
and its popularity drove editors to produce many different versions in both Russian and English.
Scored for six voices (SATTBB), the work is a communion hymn based on a synodal Kievan chant melody and Psalm 74 (73 in the Greek version).
Form, phrasing, and meter are all unaltered in the arrangement, but the key was changed to C minor and E-flat major for playability and intonation purposes.