There is no source in the Talmud for the Western Wall being the place from where prayers "ascend".  (Tractate Brachot 30a says we face toward the kodesh hakadashim when praying, traditionally and archeologically identified with the site of the Dome of the Rock.)

prayers ascending from Western Wall
I added this rows to my-default file, restarted server, recreated schema, table and data in the tables, but my cyrillic data still looks like '????'.
Now I have a new user and such config, but utf8 still does not work. 

[mysqld]
init-connect=SET NAMES utf8
character-set-server=utf8
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[mysql]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8

[mysqladmin]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8

[mysqlcheck]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8

[mysqldump]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8

[mysqlimport]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8

[mysqlshow]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets default-character-set=utf8
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