proteri alexander shalaya was sentenced to death without trial. relatives of this saint came, his nephewow lives in russia and we have quite close contact , we call him back, the icon of our holy martyr alexander shalaya, who when... served in this church, was on the international space station. the bright memory of the innocently deceased priest lives on. in soviet times, the rector of this temple tried to hide the keys to the church, hid, running into the forest into a swamp, and then came and opened the temple for worshipers. such a vital trick may have helped save the shrine. during the great patriotic war, during the offensive of our troops, fierce battles broke out around the village of blon, the entire village burned to the ground, but the wooden church miraculously survived. in the post-war period, almost all the churches in the area were damaged, looted and destroyed. is located on such a special hill, like on a mountain, and it was preserved intact during this period of the war, and has literally survived to this day safe and sound. towards the end of the soviet period, the tem