In Kazan, the church and chapel will be included in the register of cultural heritage sites.

      In Kazan, two Orthodox churches are planned to be included in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites as monuments of regional significance. The acts of state historical and cultural expertise are currently being reviewed by the Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites, the agency's press service reported. One of the sites is the stone Tikhvin Church in the village of Voznesenskoye, built with the funds of parishioners between 1740 and 1780. Previously, there was a wooden church on this site, the first mention of which dates back to 1600. The village itself was founded in the mid-16th century. In 1885, the church was expanded as it could no longer accommodate all the parishioners. The work was carried out according to the project of architect Pavel Anikin with funds from Kazan merchant and Old Believer Pavel Lisitsin. According to the website of the Tatarstan Metropolis, among the believers, the locally revered miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" and the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God, which was previously in the wooden church, were particularly venerated. In 1824, under parish priest Simeon Afanasyev, a bell tower was built next to the church, and an altar was added in honor of the Ascension of the Lord. In 1936, during Easter week, local Komsomol members killed the rector of the church — protodeacon Vladimir Fialkovsky. After that, the church was closed and looted. Later, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Father Vladimir as a holy martyr in the assembly of new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church. Services in the Tikhvin Church resumed in 1992, and two years later it was officially transferred to the Kazan Diocese. Since then, the church has been functioning as a parish church again. The second site is the Assumption Chapel in the village of Bolshie Klyki. It was built in the late 19th century on donations from local residents and became a place of prayer for Orthodox believers from Bolshie and Malye Klyki, as there were no other Orthodox churches nearby. In the early 1930s, the chapel was closed. Decades later, in 2011, residents began raising funds for its restoration. By the summer of 2012, the first service was held here after a long break. Now the Assumption Chapel of the Most Holy Theotokos belongs to the Tikhvin parish of the village of Voznesenskoye. Photo: tatmitropolia.ru