Russia Day. Festive events in Nizhny Novgorod. Consecration ceremony of the restored bell tower of the Transfiguration Cathedral in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. Metropolitan Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas (right) during the ceremony.

Russia Day. Festive events in Nizhny Novgorod. Consecration ceremony of the restored bell tower of the Transfiguration Cathedral in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. Metropolitan Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas (right) during the ceremony.

Views of Nizhny Novgorod from the bell tower of the Transfiguration Cathedral in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin.

Russia Day. Festive events in Nizhny Novgorod. Consecration ceremony of the restored bell tower of the Transfiguration Cathedral in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. Metropolitan Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas during the ceremony.

Russia Day. Festive events in Nizhny Novgorod. Consecration ceremony of the restored bell tower of the Transfiguration Cathedral in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. Metropolitan Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas (center) and Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin (right) during a ceremony.

Russia Day. Festive events in Nizhny Novgorod. Consecration ceremony of the restored bell tower of the Transfiguration Cathedral in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. From right to left: Chairman of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gayaz Zakirov, Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Georgy and Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin after the ceremony.