Procession of the cross, consecration of the mural and historical lecture: how National Unity Day will be celebrated in Yekaterinburgtranslated

On the feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and the Day of National Unity, November 4, 2026, a traditional citywide religious procession will be held in the Ural capital, which will be led by Metropolitan Evgeniy of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye.

A prayer procession will take place through the streets of the Ural capital after the festive Divine Liturgy, approximately at 11 o’clock.

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The procession will go from the Holy Trinity Cathedral (Rosa Luxemburg St., 57) to the Church-Monument on the Blood (Tsarskaya St., 10) along the route: st. Rosa Luxemburg - st. Kuibysheva - st. Gogol - st. Pushkin - st. Lenina - st. Tolmacheva - st. Tsarskaya along the roadway.

Participants in the procession will make a stop at the building of the Office of the Federal State Statistics Service (Tolmacheva St., 23). Here at 11:30 there will be a solemn consecration of the mural in honor of the Holy Passion-Bearer Tsar Nicholas II. After this, the procession will continue to the Church on the Blood.

At the end of the religious procession, at 15:00, a lecture “Emperor Nicholas II: the era of economic achievements and reforms in the name of saving the people” will be held in the assembly hall of the Church on the Blood. The speakers will be a professor at the Department of History of Moscow University...