page_title: Izhevsk
section_title: Notable buildings and structures
hierarchical_section_title: Izhevsk / Cityscape / Notable buildings and structures
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Beschreibung: Die Svyato Mihailovsky Kathedrale in Izhevsk, Republik Udmurtien in Russland English: Description: The Svyato Mihailovsky Cathedral in Ischewsk, Republic of Udmurtia in Russia Français&#160;: Description:La cathédrale Svyato Mihailovsky à Ijevsk, République d'Oudmourtie en Russie
context_page_description: Izhevsk is the capital city of Udmurtia, Russia, located along the Izh River in the Western Ural Mountains. Its population is 629,455, up from 627,734 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the nineteenth-largest city in Russia and the largest in the republic.
  From 1984 to 1987, the city was called Ustinov, named after late Soviet Minister of Defence Dmitry Ustinov The city is a major hub of industry, commerce, politics, culture and education in the Volga Region. It is famous for its defense, engineering and metallurgy industries. Izhevsk has the titles of the Armory Capital of Russia and the City of Labor Glory.
context_section_description: Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Neoclassical building from 1823 patterned after St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kronstadt (whose architect was Andreyan Zakharov)
  St. Michael's Cathedral was built by the Izhevsk arms works in the early 20th century, destroyed by the Bolsheviks and rebuilt to the original design in 2007
  Pesochnaya TV Mast (195-m tall guyed tubular steel mast built in 1962, which is equipped with six crossbars running in two levels from the mast structure to the guys)
caption: St. Michael's Cathedral
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