KIEV : UKRAINE

*Location:

   Gatehouse belltower
   St.Michael's Cathedral
   Mykhalivs'ka ploscha
   Kiev (Kyiv, Kijev), Ukraine
   LL: N 50.45567, E 30.52193

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   St.Michael's Cathedral
   Mykhalivs'ka ploscha
   Kiev, Ukraine
   T: 278 89 56

*Schedule:

   Automatic play of a different tune
   each hour around the clock.

*Remarks:

   Cast by a Ukrainian founder;
   bass bell 8 tonnes, treble 2 kg.
   All bells have crowns and are strapped
   to timbers slung in steel frames.
   Some basses much older; instrument has
   grown in stages, and might originally
   have been a zvon.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 50 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range: (??)C C 50/(??)C B 25
   There is one missing bass semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1997
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 2007

*Links:

The Wikipedia article on this building details its sad history under Soviet rule and its reconstruction in 1997-98.  The larger version of the photograph there (showing the tower and cathedral) is also available from Wikimedia.
Wikimedia image of an old postcard showing the original belltower

A page from the blog of a visiting American jurist has five photos of bells and keyboard, all clickable to view huge versions with great detail.

Stock photo of the belltower and cathedral
Stock photo of the belltower and cathedral; "Image zoom" allows high-resolution inspection of any detail but not the whole photo at once.
Atlas photo of the belltower and cathedral

Stock photo of the belltower illuminated at night

Night photo of the tower and the square before it

A visitor's photo of the gatehouse belltower and the church

Frontal view of the top of the clocktower
Side view of the top of the clocktower

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unidentified bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Where the bass bell of this carillon ranks among all great bells in Europe.

Ranking among all European traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all traditional carillons in Ukraine.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Ukraine.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 21-Nov-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/11/16
   and on technical data last updated on 2007/11/16

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