The Ascension Church in the village of Rad'kovka is the only ancient church in the area that survived the Soviet era. Built in the early 19th century, it is a monument of architecture.
The stone Ascension Church in Rad'kovka was erected in 1808. At that time, the parish had 1,556 people, and there were zemstvo and parish schools, as well as a literacy school. The church had 5 desyatins of estate land and 33 desyatins of arable land.
In the 1930s, the church was closed, but during the Great Patriotic War, services resumed. From July 1942, services were held daily, and hundreds of parishioners from nearby villages and hamlets came to remember their loved ones. Children and teenagers born during the Soviet era were also baptized here.
During those difficult years, the rector of the church was Presbyter Pavel Vasilyevich Voznesensky, a candidate of theological sciences, who graduated from the Spiritual Academy at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra in 1919.
After the village was liberated from occupation, services in the church continued. Since 1986, the church has been registered as a monument of architecture.
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