Spasskaya Tower. Moscow. The Kremlin chiming clock.

The first clock on the Spasskaya Tower was installed by the project of Galloway. In 1707, a new Dutch musical chimes was sent to Moscow on the order of Tsar Peter the Great.

In 1763, the clock was replaced again. The present-day clock and chimes were repaired and installed by the brothers Butenop in 1851.

In 1920, during the restoration of the Spasskaya Tower, musician M. Cheremnykh and the Kremlin's plumber N. Berens rearranged the playing mechanism as to play the tune of "The International".

In 1935, the tower's marquee was crowned with a five-pointed star. In 1937, it was replaced by a new, larger one (diameter of 3,75 m).

Day and night the star's surface is illuminated from the inside by a lamp of 5.000 W. The star rotates under the wind like a weathervane.

The Spasskaya Tower is a ten-story construction. It is 67,3 m high without the star and 71 m high with the star.

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[n859]

The first clock on the Spasskaya Tower was installed by the project of Galloway. In 1707, a new Dutch musical chimes was sent to Moscow on the order of Tsar Peter the Great.

The Spasskaya Tower is a ten-story construction. It is 67,3 m high without the star and 71 m high with the star.

[Ninelon]

Russia didn't change Red Stars on Kremlin towers.

[GrenzPolizei]

haha I can hear the pom accent even just in the typing

[GravityPowerful]

that tower was a symbol of soviet union

[GravityPowerful]

@GrenzPolizei Not the classic bom, Red Square and is open and large the echo propagates them very hard, with the sound of the video we understand evil. But if you were there, the sound continued and I felt more strong!

[8888jakob]

thanks



[LevitatingxDuck]

@Ninelon If you read the book Metro 2033, an obvious futuristic sci-fi, they make a cool History of the Red stars on the Kremlin :) obviously fake though.

[Audinos]

No, those are the eight or nine regular bells in the top of the tower. The flat bells are hidden inside and play the Russian anthem every three hours, plus other songs.

[sergius0202]

а что ж не подождал пока они гимн исполнят?

[Jared1452]

Are those the flat bells i'm hearing,