Церковь построена посреди села на небольшой возвышенности и имеет трёхчастную схему плана с собственно храмом, трапезной, расширенной с севера пределом, и выступающей вперёд колокольней, к основанию которой примыкают два небольших помещения. Главный алтарь - пятигранный, придельный - полукруглой формой. Храмовый четверик завершён сводом с крестообразным пятиглавием. Свод отличается высокой стрелой подъёма и завершается низким восьмериком и святовой главкой над ним. Лотки свода по сторонам света прорезаны глубокими распалубками с выведенными в плоскость стен люкарнами, на которых установлены световые главки. Все главы одинаковые, лишь центральная отличается несколько большими размерами. Восьмигранные с узкими арочными проёмами в прямоугольных рамах, они имеют прихотливое завершение. Углы восьмеричков оформлены декоративными валютоподобными формами. Углы сооружения укреплены лопатками. Стороны четверика завершены фигурными фронтонами с окном по центру и профилированными обрамлением. Фасадные плоскости, с юга и севера одинаковые, с двумя ярусами окон по трём осям. Центральная ось подчёркнута входными проёмами и окном фигурного фронтона с главкой над ним. Оконные проёмы однотипны, с лучковыми завершениями, они заглублены в прямоугольные ниши и обрамлены профилированными наличниками с треугольными фронтами. Колокольня – четырёхгранная, с двумя ярусами звона, углы которых скошены и обработаны тремя вертикальными полочками. Завершением является сквозной, вытянутых пропорции восьмеричок, несущий сложно прорисованную главку. В интерьере храм перекрыт восьмилотковым, сомкнутым сводом с центральной световой главой. Окна по вертикалям объединены нишами, центральные из которых соединяются с распалубками. Трапезная, объединённая с приделом, перекрыта лотковым сводом. Сохранились кованные решетки окон и козырёк над южным входом в храмовую часть. The church is constructed in the middle of the village on a small height and has the three-part scheme of the plan with actually temple, the refectory expanded from the North with a limit, and acting forward as a belltower which basis is adjoined by two small rooms. The main altar - pentahedral, limit - a semicircular form. Temple четверик it is finished by the arch with crosswise the pyatiglaviy. The arch differs in a high arrow of rise and comes to the end with a low vosmerik and a svyatovy glavka over it. Arch trays on parts of the world are cut through by deep raspalubka with the lyukarna removed in the plane of walls on which light central boards are established. All heads identical, only the central differs in a little big sizes. Octahedral with narrow arch apertures in rectangular frames, they have whimsical end. Corners of vosmerichok are issued by decorative valyutopodobny forms. Corners of a construction are strengthened by shovels. The parties of a chetverik are finished by figured pediments with a window on the center and profiled a frame. The front planes, from the South and the North identical, with two circles of windows on three axes. The central axis is emphasized with entrance apertures and a window of a figured pediment with a glavka over it. Window openings are same, with luchkovy zaversheniye, they are buried in rectangular niches and framed with profiled platbands with triangular fronts. Belltower – tetrahedral, with two circles of a ring which corners are slanted and processed by three vertical shelves. End is through, extended proportions the vosmerichok bearing difficult traced to a central board. In an interior the temple is blocked by the eight-tray, close arch with the central light chapter. Windows on verticals are united by niches, central from which connect to raspalubka. Refectory, integrated with a side-altar, it is blocked by the tray arch. The forged lattices of windows and a peak over the southern entrance to temple part remained. Сократи,думаю большой очень.
If you have even been inside the cockpit of a plane, you will have noticed the large number of instruments on the walls and ceiling around the pilot’s seat. Many of these buttons, dials and screens are used in navigation. Unlike car drivers, pilots do not have the luxury of signs and arrows telling them where to go. Instead, they rely on sophisticated GPS systems. So how were pilots able to find their way in the days before radio and satellite communication?
In the USA, the problem of navigation first arose when the airmail postal service was introduced in 1911. In the beginning, huge bonfires were lit to show pilots where to land in the dark. Later, a more practical solution was found: the construction of giant concrete arrows on the ground. The arrows were 21 m long and painted bright yellow. To enable pilots to see them at night, a steel tower with lights was built in the middle. The top light turned around to attract the pilot’s attention, and two others lit up the arrow and flashed a code to identify its location.
The first of these arrows was laid in 1924, and by 1929, there were around 1,500 of them. They formed an illuminated path for airmail pilots stretching from New York to San Francisco. The arrows were spaced about 16 km apart and were an important part of the Transcontinental Airway System. But by the 1940s, new navigation techniques were being discovered and soon, the arrows and their towers were no longer needed. They were gradually abandoned and some of them were removed completely.
However, not all of the arrows have disappeared. In the state of Montana, they are still used for guiding pilots through the mountains. Some are still visible in the empty areas of other states such as Utah, Wyoming and Indiana. Yet either because of their size or due to their bad condition, the arrows are not easy to find. In many cases, if you want to see one, it is a question of knowing where to look.
Which is where retired couple Brian and Charlotte Smith can help. The two are devoted fans of the arrows and spend much of their time hunting them down. So far, they have located more than a hundred of them. Once they find an arrow, they map its location, photograph it and upload the details onto their website. Their aim is to preserve the memory of these historical structures and prevent them from being lost forever.
If you have even been inside the cockpit of a plane, you will have noticed the large number of instruments on the walls and ceiling around the pilot’s seat. Many of these buttons, dials and screens are used in navigation. Unlike car drivers, pilots do not have the luxury of signs and arrows telling them where to go. Instead, they rely on sophisticated GPS systems. So how were pilots able to find their way in the days before radio and satellite communication?
In the USA, the problem of navigation first arose when the airmail postal service was introduced in 1911. In the beginning, huge bonfires were lit to show pilots where to land in the dark. Later, a more practical solution was found: the construction of giant concrete arrows on the ground. The arrows were 21 m long and painted bright yellow. To enable pilots to see them at night, a steel tower with lights was built in the middle. The top light turned around to attract the pilot’s attention, and two others lit up the arrow and flashed a code to identify its location.
The first of these arrows was laid in 1924, and by 1929, there were around 1,500 of them. They formed an illuminated path for airmail pilots stretching from New York to San Francisco. The arrows were spaced about 16 km apart and were an important part of the Transcontinental Airway System. But by the 1940s, new navigation techniques were being discovered and soon, the arrows and their towers were no longer needed. They were gradually abandoned and some of them were removed completely.
However, not all of the arrows have disappeared. In the state of Montana, they are still used for guiding pilots through the mountains. Some are still visible in the empty areas of other states such as Utah, Wyoming and Indiana. Yet either because of their size or due to their bad condition, the arrows are not easy to find. In many cases, if you want to see one, it is a question of knowing where to look.
Which is where retired couple Brian and Charlotte Smith can help. The two are devoted fans of the arrows and spend much of their time hunting them down. So far, they have located more than a hundred of them. Once they find an arrow, they map its location, photograph it and upload the details onto their website. Their aim is to preserve the memory of these historical structures and prevent them from being lost forever.