Today's photos and videos: Kremlin bells stopped for maintenance From midnight on November 6, the bells of the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin stopped for ten days - until November 16. The FSO explained this as scheduled routine maintenance, during which experts will check the condition of the clock mechanism, assess the quality of the lubricant, replace worn parts if necessary, and debug the striking mechanism. The clock mechanism consists of several thousand parts, and its weight, excluding bells, reaches 25 tons. It was assembled and installed in 1767. For the country's main clock, this is the first complete stop in six years, and throughout its existence it has stopped only five times: in 1851, 1974, 1999, 2014 and 2020.

Today's photos and videos: Kremlin bells stopped for maintenance From midnight on November 6, the bells of the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin stopped for ten days - until November 16. The FSO explained this as scheduled routine maintenance, during which experts will check the condition of the clock mechanism, assess the quality of the lubricant, replace worn parts if necessary, and debug the striking mechanism. The clock mechanism consists of several thousand parts, and its weight, excluding bells, reaches 25 tons. It was assembled and installed in 1767. For the country's main clock, this is the first complete stop in six years, and throughout its existence it has stopped only five times: in 1851, 1974, 1999, 2014 and 2020.