The general meeting of the Sakhalin branch of the IOPS took placetranslated

On November 10, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, under the chairmanship of Archbishop Nikanor of Yuzhno-Sakhalin and Kuril, a general meeting of the Sakhalin branch of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society was held.

The meeting participants were members of the regional branch of the Society, representatives of the media, as well as potential full members of the IOPS.

During the meeting, the results of the work for 2026 were summed up. Archpriest Viktor Gorbach, secretary of the Sakhalin branch of the IOPS, spoke about the events held in the region.

Among them:

Christmas concert with the participation of the art group “Largo”;

funeral service for Grand Duke Sergius Alexandrovich, first chairman of the IOPS;

youth educational forum “Spiritual Heritage of Russia: from Past to Future”;

participation in the organization of the book exhibition-forum “The Joy of the Word” and the XV Sakhalin Cyril and Methodius Readings;

classes with students of Sakhalin State University on the history of Russian Orthodox pilgrimage.

Also, together with the Murmansk branch of the IOPS, an exhibition of birch bark icons was organized, and a historical exhibition “The Russian Empire on the eve of the great upheavals of 1905–1915” was opened at the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk air terminal...