On the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression, funeral services were held in the churches of the Ekaterinburg diocesetranslated

Tomorrow, October 30, 2026, on the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression, memorial services will be held in Orthodox churches, during which the names of those killed and tortured during the years of Bolshevik repression will be remembered.

A memorial service for those innocently killed and tortured during the years of repression at the St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Yekaterinburg will be held tomorrow at 12:00, and then a lithium will be held at the site of the mass burial at the Ivanovo cemetery.

Traditionally, on this day, prayers will be heard in Orthodox churches for the ascetics who entered the Cathedral of Yekaterinburg Saints - including dozens of saints glorified in the Cathedral of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, most of them suffered martyrdom at the hands of executioners in 1918 and in subsequent years of political repression.

Also during divine services, prayers are offered for clergy and laity - people of different classes, professions, nationalities who became victims of Bolshevik persecution.

Let us remind you that October 30 is the day established by the Holy Synod for funeral services “for all Orthodox Christians who were innocently killed by atheists or who were innocently imprisoned.”

This decision was made by the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on...