The conciliar service of the spiritual fathers of the district Cossack societies took place in the Patriarchal Ascension Cathedraltranslated

On October 17, 2026, on the day of remembrance of the Hieromartyr Hierotheus of Athens, the heavenly patron of the Life Guards Cossack Regiment, the Divine Liturgy in the cathedral church of the Cossack troops of Russia was performed by the military priest of the All-Great Don Army, Archpriest Georgy Smorkalov, who was co-served by the heads of the diocesan departments for interaction with the Cossacks and the spiritual fathers of the East Kazakhstan region. “The Great Don Army”, who arrived from the Rostov, Volgograd, Astrakhan regions, the Republic of Kalmykia and the Lugansk People's Republic for a meeting of the Council of Atamans and the XXXII Great Military Circle

During the Divine Liturgy in front of the XXXII Great Military Circle, the deputy governor of the Rostov region, ataman of the All-Great Don Army, Cossack Colonel Sergei Bodryakov, atamans and Cossack delegates of the Great Circle, students of the Platov Hundred of SRSPU (NPI) prayed. M.I. Platova.

At the end of the Liturgy, Archpriest Georgy Smorkalov addressed the praying atamans and Cossacks, wishing successful and fruitful work to the XXXII Great Military Circle, the leitmotif of which is the 30th anniversary of the creation of the All-Great Don Army, which considers its duty to serve the Fatherland.

- And, perhaps, for the first time in history...