Хабаровский планетарий, Planetarium in Khabarovsk, Russia
The Khabarovsk Planetarium was a former planetarium housed in the Innokenty Church, the first stone church in Khabarovsk, built in the second half of the 19th century. It operated from the 1960s to the first half of the 1990s. The building was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1991 and now serves as a church again.
The Khabarovsk Planetarium operated from the 1960s until the first half of the 1990s in the building of the Innokenty Church, Khabarovsk's first stone church, built in the second half of the 19th century. In 1989 restoration options for the Church of Innocent of Irkutsk were considered, and in 1991 the building was handed to the Khabarovsk and Priamurye Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, which after reconstruction returned it to its original purpose. The Carl Zeiss projector was dismantled and taken to a warehouse; plans for a new building were never realised.
The planetarium's lectures were given by teachers and postgraduate students of the Khabarovsk State Pedagogical Institute, with which it cooperated. A children's astronomy club also worked there. The building itself is the Church of Innocent of Irkutsk, the first stone church in Khabarovsk, returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1991.
The former planetarium occupied the building of the Innokenty Church, the first stone church in Khabarovsk, in the city centre. The building was returned to the Khabarovsk and Priamur Diocese in 1991 and now functions as a church, so visits follow the church's opening rather than planetarium shows. The Carl Zeiss projector was removed and stored; its current whereabouts are not reported.
The building was the first stone church in Khabarovsk, the Church of Innocent of Irkutsk, before it housed the planetarium. Its Carl Zeiss projector was dismantled and moved to a warehouse in 1991, and its later fate is not reported. In 2015–2016 the question of a new planetarium in Yuri Gagarin Park was raised.
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