The Church of St. Nicholas, built in 1850, became the second in the village. The first church, dedicated to Archangel Michael and built in 1830, has not survived to this day. The new Nicholas church with one altar was constructed with funds from local residents and was smaller in size compared to the Michael church. Both churches had church-parish schools operating.
The interior decoration of the temple was magnificent: a gilded carved iconostasis, numerous large icons in silver and gold settings. In the 1930s, all the relics and church utensils were plundered and disappeared without a trace.
In 1936, the Nicholas church was closed and repurposed as a grain storage facility. In 1946, the church was returned to the faithful, and in the post-war years it remained the only functioning parish in the Orenburg district.
The Nicholas church became the place of service for the holy martyr Macarius Kvitkin, a protodeacon of Orenburg, who was the rector from 1915 to 1920. After experiencing numerous persecutions and mockery towards his family, protodeacon Macarius met a martyr's death on Palm Sunday in 1931. In 2000, he was canonized among the new martyrs and confessors of Russia of the 20th century. In April 2003, a small myrrh-streaming began from the icon of the holy martyr Macarius of Orenburg Kvitkin in the Nicholas church.
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