The first church in the village of Ozery, a wooden structure with a bell tower, was built in 1789. It was dedicated to the Archangel Michael, with altars in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos and the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God. The church existed until 1846, after which it was closed due to dilapidation.
From September 22 to October 5, 1855, the Samara Spiritual Consistory reviewed the project for a new church by the Samara Provincial Construction and Road Commission. After the project was approved, in 1857, on a plot of land measuring 228 square fathoms with a wooden fence, thanks to the efforts of court councilor Claudia Ivanovna Lazareva, a church was built and consecrated in the name of Saint Michael the Archangel. It was a single-altar, wooden, cold church on a stone foundation with a bell tower, designed to accommodate 800 people.
There was a cemetery adjacent to the church, enclosed by a wooden fence. In 1873, with funds from parishioners, a warm single-altar wooden church in honor of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker was built in the village of Ozery, accommodating 300 people.
According to oral testimonies from locals and archival documents, a headquarters of the Social Revolutionary Party was established at the Saint Nicholas Church by teachers opposing the authorities. In 1905, the church was closed for distributing proclamations by the decree of the tsar, and in 1926 it was dismantled and moved to the village of Starye Yeremkino, where it was used to build a school from the logs. In 1934, the parish was abolished, and the building was used as a grain storage facility.
In 1969, during the reconstruction of the village for the Dimitrovgrad Research Institute of Atomic Reactors, the church was completely dismantled, and its materials were used for construction.
Since 1995, thanks to the efforts of Valentina Mikhailovna Lizunova and with the assistance of the general director of OAO "Ozery" Evgeny Konstantinovich Bukarov, work has begun on the reconstruction of the church.
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