The patronal feast of the church under construction was celebrated in the village of Uvalnaya Bitiyatranslated

On November 8, 2026, in the village of Uvalnaya Bitiya, Sargat district, for the first time in 90 years, the patronal celebration of the Dimitrievsky Church under construction took place.

The Divine Liturgy was led by the dean of the Sargat district, abbot of the St. Nicholas Monastery, Hegumen Seraphim (Maksimov), co-served by the clergy of the deanery, Archpriest Gennady Bulov and priest Vladimir Voevodin.

At the end of the Liturgy, the rite of consecration of the Worship Cross was performed on the site of the church, destroyed in the 1930s.

Father Seraphim presented letters of gratitude on behalf of Bishop Vikenty of Tarsk and Tyukalinsk to volunteers from the villages of Uvalnaya Bitiya and Nizhneirtyshskoye:

— Lyudmila Petrovna Kozhedubova,

— Yakovleva Tamara Ivanovna,

— Nadezhda Ivanovna Myasnikova,

— Natalya Nikolaevna Bogomolova,

— Great Vladimir Alekseevich,

- Nazvanov Ivan Dmitrievich,

— Artemyeva Zinaida Petrovna,

— Natalya Gerasimovna Isakova,

— Zdannikova Lidia Mikhailovna,

— Nadezhda Vladimirovna Zhukova,

— Maxim and Yulia Plotsky.

The head of the Uvalobitiinsky District Administration, I.Yu., addressed congratulations. Levshchanova.

The holiday was shared by guests from neighboring villages.