The senior priest of the Church-Monument on the Blood, confessor of the OVKO Archpriest Maxim Minyailo took part in the reporting Circle of the Orenburg Cossack Armytranslated

On October 17, 2026, the Reporting Circle of the Orenburg Cossack Army took place for the first time in Magnitogorsk. The event was attended by the military ataman, Cossack colonel Igor Anatolyevich Tsyganov, atamans of all departments of the army, old men and elected delegates from the Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan regions and the Republic of Bashkortostan, as well as the confessor of the OVKO, the senior priest of the Church-Monument on the Blood, Archpriest Maxim Minyailo.

The military circle is an annual meeting attended by delegates from Cossack societies that are part of the army. Here they discuss issues important for his future work and make decisions related to the life and development of Cossack societies.

– More than 150 elected delegates of the Orenburg Military Cossack Society from the five regions of Russia that are part of the army were present at the Circle.  Before the start of the work of the circle, Bishop Zosima of Magnitogorsk and Verkhneuralsk, co-served by the military priest of the Orenburg Cossack army, Archpriest Maxim Minyailo, performed a prayer service, reports the ataman of the OVKO Cossack Colonel Igor Anatolyevich Tsyganov in the mah-channel.

Before the start of the Circle, a welcoming speech was read from...