Chapel In Memory Of Dead Miners in the 2010 Raspadskaya Mine Disaster Opened in the Kuzbass

______________________________

On Friday, a spokesman for the municipal authorities in Mezhdurechensk in Kemerovo Oblast announced the opening of a chapel in memory of the victims of the May 2010 accident at the Raspadskaya Mine that killed about a hundred miners. The construction of the chapel dedicated to St Barbara, the patron saint of workers in hazardous occupations (including miners), began in August 2011 near the city park at the intersection of 50th Anniversary of the Komsomol Prospekt and Kosmanavtov Street. The relatives of the victims chose the location of the chapel. The brick building has a height of 20 metres (66 feet) and a floor area of 665 square metres (7,158 square feet), in a cruciform shape. On the main façade, there’s a mosaic icon of St Barbara, made ​​in the style of ancient New Roman (Byzantine) images. Inside the building, there’s a carved oak iconostas with 11 icons and a memorial marble plaque with the names of those killed in the Raspadskaya Mine disaster. On the night of 9 May 2010, two explosions ripped through the Raspadskaya Mine, killing 90 miners, including 20 rescuers. The bodies of 11 miners are still entombed in the mine.

17 August 2012

Interfax-Religion

http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=47085

Advertisement

28 April 2012. A Multimedia Presentation. Today is Workers’ Memorial Day… “Remember the Dead… Fight for the Living”

______________________________

Workers’ Memorial Day takes place annually around the world on 28 April, an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured, or made unwell by their work.

******

******

******

******

******

******

******

******

******

******

******

______________________________

The photos are of the 2010 Mezhdurechensk mine disaster in Russia. I’ll tell you one of the reasons why the rightwing slimers hate Vladimir Putin. When the word came of the explosion, he went out to the Kuzbass, and he saw to it that the owners paid up to the families of the dead miners. On top of that, he saw to it that the social welfare system didn’t screw anyone over. George Bush never did likewise… indeed, the Republicans make it clear that the workers get all the pain… the McMansion pigs get all the gain. Not only do they stack the deck unmercifully, they want to stack it against working folks even more. That’s the way it is, now… I seem to find something WRONG in that. We can do something about that in November…

BMD

Coal Mines Aren’t Just in Pennsylvania… Images of Those Affected by the Raspadskaya Mine Disaster in Mezhdurechensk

Let’s start with some general views of the city of Mezhdurechensk (Kemerovo Oblast. Siberian Federal District) in the Kuzbass in Siberian Russia…

******

and here’s the other end of town.

******

******

******

******

******

******

******

******

******

******

******

******

******

These scenes are all-too-familiar to Russian Orthodox people from Pennsylvania and West Virginia… it’s why we aren’t as prone to believe in Godless Suburban Therapeutese as are Anglo-Saxons. The coal pit and steel mill figure in too many of our family histories… the ancestors of today’s konvertsy exploited our ancestors… we’ve never forgotten that. We paid the price of American industrialisation… they took the benefits.

Spare a prayer for the common working folk of Mezhdurechensk… they’re going to go down in the pit again… don’t forget them.

BMD