ABANDONED CHAPEL-TURMENT OF THE HERO PORT ARTHUR, PATRIOT OF RUSSIA

For more than a hundred years now, on the banks of the Volga, not far from the village of Ermakovo (Samara region), the abandoned chapel-tomb of Alexei Nikolaevich LYUPOV, a Russian officer, artilleryman, participant in the Russo-Japanese War, talented inventor and photographer, has stood. The author of the chapel project is military engineer Fyodor Vladimirovich SMIRNOV. Today the chapel is in a dilapidated state and continues to collapse before our eyes. The issue of restoring it has been raised many times by concerned people, but no action has yet been taken by the current authorities. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, Alexey Nikolaevich LYUPOV participated in the defense of Port Arthur. He commanded a battery of 9-inch mortars of the Kwantung Fortress Artillery. After the fall of the city, he was captured by the Japanese. I stayed there for a year. After returning from captivity, he retired with the rank of captain. He was involved in invention. From 1908 to 1911, he p