St. Michael's Cathedral (Izhevsk)

Its Russian Revival design belongs to Ivan Charushin, a little-known 19th-century architect from Vyatka.

The red-brick church is capped with a tent-like roof that rises to a height of 67 metres.

It is encircled by several massive chapels with gilded bulbous domes and slender candle-like belfries.

The Izhevsk arms factory owed its rise partly to the involvement of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, whose patron saint was Michael the Archangel.

[1] The factory's employees contributed one percent of their wages to a fund set up to finance the construction of a large church to this military saint.