The Assumption Church in Sovetsk (Kukarka) was built at the end of the 18th century, the Orthodox group of the Kukarsky Deanery of the Vyatka Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church said. 
In the 30s of the XX century, like many other temples, it was ruined. Its restoration and restoration has been going on for more than 30 years. The icon "Prayer for Vyatka" arrived at the Assumption Church on December 14. It was written in the year of the 650th anniversary of the city of Kirov. 
The icon "Prayer for Vyatka" depicts 12 Kirov residents, ascetics of the faith. 
The icon was painted according to the idea and created with the participation of activists of the organization "Revival of Vyatka". At the end of October, she was consecrated in the Assumption Cathedral of the Trifonov Monastery. A kiosk and a permanent location are being prepared for the image, but believers can already pray in front of it
The iconographer Andrey Drachenkov worked on the "Prayer for Vyatka" for about a year and a half. During this time, three sketches were created, three different versions of the image. The first one has a very complex composition: in the center is not only the Assumption Cathedral, but many other city temples, and at the very top is the dome of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. In the second version, the icon became free of excessive visual information, and "air" appeared. Conciseness added depth.
The icon is painted with traditional materials on a wooden base: egg tempera, mineral pigments, gold. In short, the same composition of paints that artists used 500 and a thousand years ago. The spiritual meaning of the icon is also traditional. While working on the second sketch, the artist was advised to slightly change the angle at the bottom. Expand the space from north to east, so that in the center below there is not the St. Nicholas Church, but another shrine. A curious detail: the icon "Prayer for Vyatka" depicts this place - the spring behind the Assumption Cathedral of the Trifonov monastery. With one difference. If in reality the water comes from a spring, then in the image it pours out directly from the cup in which the Virgin and the Christ child are located." The appearance of a spring that flows directly from the icon in the icon - from the image of the "Life-giving Spring" to the image of the "Prayer for Vyatka" - is an unexpected and bold move. Water is an ancient spiritual symbol found in both the Old and New Testaments. Here the holy spring seems to symbolize the baptismal font of the Vyatka people.