Maksim Biryukov, the head of the city's fire inspection division of the Emergency Situations Ministry, says the inspections will begin in early September once a list is compiled of the city's most vulnerable structures.
Biryukov's comments come after a fire on August 25 at St. Petersburg's 19th-century Trinity Cathedral destroyed the building's main cupola, which was constructed of wood and was under wooden scaffolding at the time of the fire. A smaller cupola was also damaged.
Emergency workers and clerics managed to save all of the cathedral's valuable icons and religious articles.
A criminal case has been opened into the cause of the fire.
(Interfax, themoscowtimes.com)
Biryukov's comments come after a fire on August 25 at St. Petersburg's 19th-century Trinity Cathedral destroyed the building's main cupola, which was constructed of wood and was under wooden scaffolding at the time of the fire. A smaller cupola was also damaged.
Emergency workers and clerics managed to save all of the cathedral's valuable icons and religious articles.
A criminal case has been opened into the cause of the fire.
(Interfax, themoscowtimes.com)
