Yaroslavl bell ringers school graduates its first student

On 25 December 2005, the Yugoslavl bell ringers school graduates its first students. Nine students will get certificates of graduates. They learned theory and practiced bell ringing.

They pray before lessons and it is the only difference from an ordinary school. All the rest is the same: marks, home tasks and many subjects. The main professional lesson is that a bell-ringer should feel the bell. Every bell has name and its own voice. Both sound and safety of the bell depend on the strike of the ‘tongue’.

‘The bells inform us of the most important moments of the Divine service. According to the Orthodox tradition, the bell not only calls people to church but also tells what goes on at the divine service’, the school’s director Natalia Karovskaya says.

The lessons are over, professionally qualified specialists go to parishes and all parishioners will access their mastery.