Cathedral service of clergy of the Zvenigorod deanery on the day of remembrance of Hieromartyr Nikolai Sokolovtranslated

October 31, on the day of remembrance of the Hieromartyr Nikolai Sokolov, in the Transfiguration Church in the village. The Crimean Zvenigorod deanery held solemn services. The Divine Liturgy on this day was performed by the dean of the Zvenigorod deanery district, Priest Nikolai Kurenkov, co-served by the clergy of the deanery. At the end of the service, glorification was performed before the image of the saint.

Archpriest Nikolai Sokolov, after graduating from the Moscow Theological Seminary, was appointed in 1892 to the position of teacher at the parish school of the Transfiguration Church in the village. Crimean. He served as rector at the Transfiguration Church for almost forty years. In 1937, he was shot at the Butovo training ground near Moscow. In October 2002, Archpriest Nikolai Sokolov was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as a New Martyr and Confessor of the Russian Church.