The winners of the game for teenagers “Five cubits to a fathom” will represent the Ekaterinburg diocese at the tournament in St. Petersburgtranslated

The winners of the regional stage of the patriotic intellectual game for teenagers “Five Elbows to the Fathom” are preparing to participate in the interregional stage, which will take place in ten days in St. Petersburg. A rich program awaits the participants: competition for victory among finalists from other metropolises and getting to know the iconic places of the city.

Pupils of Sunday schools of churches in the name of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Elmash and in the name of the Hieromartyr Arkady of Yekaterinburg Elizaveta Lopatina, Anna Nikiforova and Anna Ivanova became winners of the regional stage of the Olympics. About 90 Sunday school students from different parishes of the Yekaterinburg diocese took part in the game, which was organized as part of the “Ark” Orthodox session in the “Brigantine” camp.

The day before, at the diocesan administration, a meeting of the participants took place with the deputy chairman of the Department of Religious Education and Catechesis of the Yekaterinburg Diocese, cleric of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, curator of the project from the Yekaterinburg Diocese, Priest John Avdyushin. In preparation for the tournament, a conversation took place about historical figures associated with the Northern capital of Russia - artists and politicians. This…