The Church of Saint George the Victorious in the village of Kozino was built in 1844. Initially, it was located in the village of Krupets, but after the construction of a new stone church by the order of Prince Baryatinsky, the old wooden church was dismantled and moved to Kozino.

However, the history of the church on Kozino land began much earlier. Research of archival data conducted by Tatiana Nikolaevna Babenko, a teacher of the fundamentals of Orthodox culture at Kozino Secondary School, showed that the first mentions of the Georgievsky church date back to the 17th century. In 1648, there was a record of a tax on a chapel that had previously been the church of Saint George the Martyr in the state village of Kozino. The chapel was destroyed in 1662. Later, on November 15, 1699, a newly built church of Saint George the Martyr was consecrated in Kozino. According to the "Report of the Oryol Spiritual Consistory" dated October 19, 1788, there were 95 parish households in the village of Kozino under the church of Saint George the Victorious, served by one priest, one deacon, and one sexton.

The village of Gorodishche was part of the parish of the Georgievskaya church. In 1890, the parish had 826 men and 818 women; in 1898, 993 men and 1019 women; by 1926, there were 2709 people of both sexes. Over the years, the priests of the church included Father Theodosius Alexandrov (1788), Father Vasily Korensky (1815), Father Nikolai Tolmachev (1890), and Father Alipiy Buksov (1918).

During the Soviet era, starting in 1936, grain was stored in the central part of the church, but services continued in the altar. Parishioners prayed outside next to the church, where they also confessed and received communion. At that time, the rector was a priest, monk Stefan, who, according to locals, served for a short time and soon passed away. Then, the rector became Priest Porfiriy Tatarin (1906-1989), who did much for the restoration of the parish and served here for forty years. In the cemetery by the church, behind the fence, are the graves of Father Porfiriy and his wife, and opposite are the graves of Priest Stefan and other clergy.