Kremlin Clock
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The Kremlin Clock ( ) or Kremlin Chimes ( ), also known colloquially in the West as Moscow Clock Tower, is a historic clock on the Spasskaya Tower of Moscow Kremlin. The clock dial is above the main gates to Red Square. For decades, the chimes have rung on the quarter-hour, with bells tolling for each full hour.
The Kremlin Clock ( ) or Kremlin Chimes ( ), also known colloquially in the West as Moscow Clock Tower, is a historic clock on the Spasskaya Tower of Moscow Kremlin. The clock dial is above the main gates to Red Square. For decades, the chimes have rung on the quarter-hour, with bells tolling for each full hour.
Chimes
The melody heard before the striking is played alone once on the first quarter-hour, twice on the half-hour, and three times on the third quarter-hour. The phrase is played four times on the full hour, followed by the strikes. The melody is believed to be known as "Malinovsky chimes". Usually, an additional tune is played after the main melody and the strikes, normally every three hours. At noon, midnight, 6 am and 6 pm the chimes plays the national anthem after the hour strikes, while at 3 a.m., 9 a.m., 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. it plays the "Glory" chorus from Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar. The clock is set twice a day. The original clock was wound by hand, but from 1937, it was done using three electric motors. Prior to the adoption of State Anthem of the Russian Federation in 2000, the chimes played an excerpt of Patrioticheskaya Pesnya throughout the 1990s. The Kremlin chiming clock. (YouTube video.)
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