Bell-foundry Zabenkina

The bell-foundry of Serapion Nikolaevich Zabenkin was founded in Kostroma in 1880, on Nizhne-Naberezhnaya Street.

Finished bells were sold at the factory and at a warehouse in St. Petersburg in Apraksin Dvor (Shmitov proezd, No. 425-427). The bells of the plant were exhibited in a separate pavilion at the anniversary exhibition of 1913 in Kostroma and received the highest approval of Nicholas II .

Factory Bells

Monasteries

For monasteries:

Alekseevsky in Uglich (600 poods.)
Epiphany women in Kostroma (1000 and 402 pounds)
Second Athos near Pyatigorsk
Ipatievsky
Makaryevo-Unzhensky (507 poods.)
Syamsky male Vologda lips.

Cities

Arkhangelsk : Solombala Cemetery Church (68 poods)
Astrakhan : Znamenskaya Church (312 poods.),
Golden-bearers of Poltava lips. : Assumption Cathedral (170 poods.)
Kostroma (Intercession Church, 410 pounds; Sergievskaya, 254 pounds;
Krasnoslobodsk (Annunciation, 212 poods.)
Makaryev ,
Narovchat
Nikolsk-Ussuriysky (100 poods.)
Novgorod the Great (Church of St. George the Victorious, 1913, 213 pounds)
Polotsk : (St. Nicholas Cathedral, 387 poods.)
Tsarskoye Selo (ringing to the church of Drozhzhina)
Yaroslavl (ringing to the temple of the Cadet Corps,

Villages

For villages of the Astrakhan province .: Posad Vladimirovka (312 pounds)
Troops of the Don region: Art. Gromoslavka (Nicholas Church)
Kostroma province: Alekseevskoye (121 poods), Andreevskoye (425 poods), Tezino (now Vichuga, Church of the Resurrection of Christ , 1700 poods), Vichuga (Trinity Church, 700 pounds), Gotovtsevo (302 pounds), Monastery Sloboda ( 452 pounds), Serapikha (107 pounds), Spas-Verkhovye (306 pounds), Sukhorukovo (212 pounds), Tatyanino (312 pounds), Feodorovskoye (250 pounds), Chernaya Zavod (509 pounds), Schukino (200 poods.)
Kuban region: the village of Novoshcherbinovka (254 and 156 pounds)
Nizhny Novgorod province.: Pochinki (Christ Nativity Cathedral, 250 poods), Piansky Perevoz (317 poods)
Penza Province: Letki of Insarsky Uyezd (220 poods.)
Perm Province: Peremskoye (135 poods.)
Tauride Bay: Vodyana (262 pounds)
Tverskaya Bay .: Ursa (308 pounds)
Yaroslavl province: Marmuzhinsky (328 poods.)

Others

Railway signal bells for the Moscow-Yaroslavl-Arkhangelsk railway. d.

Sources

Literature

Kostroma Diocesan sheets. 1890, No. 21; 1891, No. 22, 1901, No. 7.
Penza Diocesan sheets. 1891, No. 7.
Shine. 1902, No. 180.
North Rim. 1902, No. 72.
Village Herald. 1890, No. 51-52.

Links

http://rgakfd.altsoft.spb.ru/showObject.do?object=150248253 Emperor Nicholas II talks with the owner of the bell plant S.N. Zabenkin at the belfry of the plant during a visit to the Zemstvo exhibition during the celebrations on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty .
http://admin.rostmuseum.ru/Upload/90770f5e-4643-41e6-bcce-e26853ecb6d2.pdf N.P. Yakovleva. Bells of Russian bell plants of the 19th - early 20th centuries with the identifying inscriptions of manufacturers in the collection of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve.
http://starina44.ru/reklama-v-kostrome.-pechatnye-izdan Forgotten Kostroma. Advertising in Kostroma