Metropolitan Veniamin performed the funeral service for the people's writer of Belarus Nikolai Cherginetstranslated

On July 9, 2026, in the Holy Spirit Cathedral of the city of Minsk, Metropolitan Benjamin of Minsk and Zaslavl, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, performed the funeral service for the newly deceased Nikolai Cherginets, people's writer of Belarus, honorary chairman of the Union of Writers of Belarus, prose writer and publicist.