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the tour Ended the students to memorable places and temples of the Smolensk Diocese, which was held in the framework of the project "Road to the temple" with the support of the international grant competition "Orthodox initiative". In total in them have taken part more than one hundred and twenty students. One of the excursions was dedicated to the memory day (December 8) of the Hieromartyr Seraphim (Ostroumova), Archbishop of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, shot at Katyn during the period of repression. During the tours, the students visited the Katyn memorial and the memorial Church of the Resurrection in the village of Katyn, became acquainted with temple architecture of pre-Mongol era (with the temples of the XII century – Cathedral of Peter and Paul, Svir (Michael the Archangel) Church, Church of St. John the Evangelist), the other temples of Smolensk and its environs. The most vivid impression left in the memory of tourists familiarity with the "business cards" Smolensk region – the Svyato-Uspensky Cathedral and Smolensk fortress wall. Excursions to Holy assumption Cathedral for students of SF MEI played great in the 3rd year student of the Smolensk Orthodox Theological Seminary Igor Mayorov. His great historical and rhetorical training noted teachers of the Humanities Department and the Department TMO branch participating in excursions. And some students of the branch participated in the regional Christmas readings "Youths: freedom and responsibility", listened with interest to the report of Igor Mayorov "Activities guide Bureau at the Smolensk Cathedral" at the student conference in Smolensk Theological Seminary December 14, 2018 (http://www.prav-news.ru/smolensk/?ID=208283). The most active and interested participants in the tours have become team members for a new project of the Smolensk Diocese "Pearl necklace of Holy Russia", led by 2nd year student Vladislav by Sangeetam (gr. ES-17). During the tours the students of SF MEI also got acquainted with the activities of the cultural center of the Church of the new Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, which was made possible thanks to the rector of the Church of the new Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church Archpriest Valery and clergyman of the Church hieromonk Nicholas (Zolotov). The tourists told about the main directions of activities of the technical possibilities of the centre, in what forms his work can take young people – regardless of the degree of inchurched. Representatives of Council of Federation MEI – head. the Department of Humanities N.P. Starodvorane and associate Professor of TMO M. G. Kulikova donated to the center booklets with recipes of meatless dishes and Orthodox calendars "Shrine of Smolensk", developed by students of the branch participated in the competition booklet "Taste and benefits of meatless dishes" and competition for the best Orthodox calendar for 2019
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Details of participation of our students in the project "Pearl necklace":
http://www.prav-news.ru/smolensk/?ID=208196
http://www.prav-news.ru/smolensk/?ID=208187
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