reconstruction

The Church of the Domition of the Virgin in the Volotovo Field is the ultimate example of dedication to restoration and preservation that has come about in part by Veliky Novgorod's UNESCO designation as a World Heritage Site.  The above photos illustrate the destruction of the church resulting from the siege of Novgorod by the German army between 1941 and 1944, and its reconstruction through Russian - German cooperation in this decade. 
While the pile of rubble on the left appears very terminal, it in fact consisted of 4 meter high walls with frescoes intact, buried under debris which consisted in part of the millions of fragments making up the balance of the frescoes which were reconstructed like jigsaw puzzles. 
The German Company, Wintershall AG has a web page devoted to this project at http://www.wintershall.com/962.html