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<DIV> I have been prompted by a recording that I heard at a BBC department
recently and with a little research came up with the following interesting
article-
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<DIV>On Page 2... one reads about the Tsar Kolokol Bell......We have
heard that Father Israilev, a recognized connoisseur of bells,
believes that it is possible to recast the Tsar Bell, tune
it and raise it to the bell tower. According to his
estimates, the works will cost at least 50,000 roubles. Recently, the
newspapers have published several projects for the Tsar Bell
reconstruction.</DIV>
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<DIV>See website attached.<BR></DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.danilovbells.com/bellsonrussia/publications_about_bells/historical_bells/?page=1">http://www.danilovbells.com/bellsonrussia/publications_about_bells/historical_bells/?page=1</A></DIV>
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<DIV> Is this old info? And who is Father
Israilev? It also mention poods see below.</DIV>
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<P><B>Pood</B> (<A title="Russian language"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language">Russian</A>: <SPAN lang=ru
xml:lang="ru">пуд</SPAN>, <I>pud</I>), is a unit of <A title=Mass
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass">mass</A> equal to 40 funt (фунт, <A
class=mw-redirect title="Russian pound"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_pound">Russian pound</A>). It is
approximately 16.38 <A title=Kilogram
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram">kilograms</A> (36.11 <A
title="Pound (mass)"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)">pounds</A>).<SUP
class=reference id=cite_ref-dwip_0-0><A title=""
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pood#cite_note-dwip-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP>
It was used in <A title=Russia
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia">Russia</A>, <A title=Belarus
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus">Belarus</A> and <A title=Ukraine
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine">Ukraine</A>. Pood was first
mentioned in a number of documents of the 12th century. Together with
other units of <A title=Weight
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight">weight</A> of the <A
class=mw-redirect title="Obsolete Russian weights and measures"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_Russian_weights_and_measures">Imperial
Russian weight measurement system</A>, pood was abolished in the <A
class=mw-redirect title=USSR href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR">USSR</A>
in 1924.</P></DIV>
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