Vladimir Putin thanked the rector of the church for the restoration of the Voronezh shelter – TVNZ

Vladimir Putin thanked the rector of the church for the restoration of the Voronezh shelter – TVNZ

Vladimir Putin, usually at Christmas outside Moscow. On Christmas night from 6 to 7 January President of Russia attended the festive Christmas service at the Cathedral in honor of the Holy Virgin in the village of Otradnoe Novousmansky area. He was accompanied by Presidential Envoy to the Central Federal District Alexander fluently and Voronezh Region Governor Alexei Gordeev

The President went to church at midnight and was greeted with applause.

In addition to local residents, parishioners in this year were children from the orphanage at the church. Many of them have come here from Lugansk. Last year, the temple was organized by the Centre for the collection of humanitarian aid. During the Ukrainian crisis stopped here about a thousand people.

After the service, Vladimir Putin congratulated the parishioners on Christmas. The President also toured the church and parish house of the church and thanked Archpriest Gennady for the restoration of the shelter.

  REFERENCE “KP”

 The church received its name in honor of the feast of the Holy Virgin. The temple was built eight years since 1893. In 1930, was closed, and the room was used for many years as a granary. Started to recover in 1991.

 Why Putin decided to attend this church? Maybe because the rector of the church is a well known and respected in the field of Gennady Zaridze.

 It is well known that Putin regularly visits temples during major religious holidays. At Easter, it is more often in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and Christmas is usually found in the regions. In the past two years was during these holy days in Sochi. In 2014, on the night of January 7 visited the new church built next to the Olympic park. In 2013, attended the Christmas service in a three-altar temple in honor of the Mother of God “Peschanskaya” and “Vladimir” in the Trinity-St George’s Monastery in the village of Forest Adler district.

 The year before, the president came to the festive service in the Transfiguration Cathedral of St. Petersburg, where he was baptized by his mother.

 Even before Putin visited the Christmas service at the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin in the village Turginovo Tver region, where in 1911 his parents were baptized.

 In 2006, President celebrate Christmas in a church Yakutska.Na street was then at minus 50. And the soul of the faithful was light. And the heat. It was then that Putin was born the tradition of celebrating great holidays in the Russian province …

 Recall that the president is not so long ago came to Voronezh – in August last year. Then Putin held in the regional government presidium meeting of the State Council, the main theme of which was the development of a system of social protection of older people.