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St. Dimitri of Rostov Church in Petropavlovsk
The first church in the village of Petropavlovsk was built in the year of its founding, in 1845. It was a wooden structure located in the center of the village and consecrated in honor of Saints Peter and Paul, whose nam…
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Holy Trinity Church in Voznesenskaya
The Holy Trinity Church in the Voznesenskaya stanitsa of the Labinsky district was consecrated on June 12, 1906, on the day of the Holy Trinity. The Trinity Church, previously a Uniate church, was built in memory of the…
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Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Labinsk
The Labinskaya stanitsa was founded in 1841 on the right bank of the Laba River at the initiative of Major General G. K. Zass, the commander of the right flank of the Caucasian line. In 1840, he proposed to move the forw…
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Church of the Three Saints in Leningrad (Lost)
More than a hundred years have passed since the consecration in 1906 of one of the most beautiful churches in Kuban, dedicated to the Three Saints, in the village of Umanskaya (Leningrad). Unfortunately, it stood for onl…
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Transfiguration Church in Psebay
The headquarters of Psebay was founded in 1857 by Colonel M. D. Likhutin, who commanded the Sevastopol regiment. This regiment was formed that same year from five Black Sea line battalions. The settlement was located on …
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Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God in Novoivanovskaya
The village of Novoivanovskaya, previously known as the Novoivanovsky farm, was founded in 1891 in the Kuban region. It was settled by Orthodox believers who dreamed of having their own church from the very beginning. Th…
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Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Novorossiysk
At the end of 1891, a city cemetery was opened in Novorossiysk, located between Anapskaya Street (now Vidova), Stavropolskaya, Chaikovskaya, and Ksenievskaya (now Klara Zetkin). The area of the cemetery was about 20,000 …
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Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Novorossiysk (Lost)
In 1892, there were two churches in Novorossiysk: the Nikolayevsky and the Skorbyashchenskaya. The Nikolayevsky church, the oldest in the city, was built in 1846. It was located in the first part of the city in a square …
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Trinity Cathedral in Novorossiysk (Lost)
The Holy Trinity Church in Novorossiysk has a rich history that began in 1893 with the construction of a wooden church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow." Church-parish schools for men and …
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Kazan Icon of the Mother of God Cathedral in Novoleushkovskaya (Lost)
In 1812, the main population of the new stanitsa, both Cossacks and newcomers, were Orthodox. The church played an important role in their spiritual life and moral upbringing. There were two Orthodox churches in the stan…