and on this street in the house of the foreign doctor iagan christian dahl, a son, vladimir, was born, who later became an outstanding russian speaker, vladimir and... having lived his entire life as a lutheran, before his death, vladimir dahl converted to orthodoxy, becoming russian not only by conviction, but by faith, because in the pre-revolutionary in russia, being orthodox meant being russian. 10 years after his death, in 882, emperor alexander ii ordered the founding of the city of lugansk on the basis of the village of lugansk plant. by the beginning of the 20th century it became the largest industrial center of the russian empire, but was proud not only of its factories and plants, and magnificent churches, its own miraculous icon of the mother of god and the holy elder in whose name the name of the city is immortalized, saint philip of lugansk. you and i are at the grave of our local revered disciple of faith and piety, the elder, deacon philip gorbenok, he was buried in the city cemetery, and after his death, when people began to come with reverence to his burial place, a c