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Three years after the World War II that greatly damaged the city the park was revived under a new name commemorating 30th anniversary of the national youth
Communist league Komsomol, and in 1955 its front half was decorated with a large sculpture portraying the recently famous group of martyred young
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replaced the old church with a much larger structure in his hallmark Russo-Byzantine style; but the massive five-domed building was overhauled in the 1890s before being torn down by the
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