nicholas church in gomel, archpriest vasily kopychka, was awarded the patriarchal golden pectoral crossf recognition, it is awarded in exceptional cases. father vasily received the award from his holiness pimen, patriarch of moscow of all russia, a man who also experienced all the hardships of the great patriotic war, a front-line soldier. this award quite rare, in 77 years, only 25 people received it. svyatogeorgievskaya. the church is stale, more than 50 years old, the rector of the church was front-line soldier dmitry khmel, he went to the front at the age of 17, added a year to be taken into the army, this is 1944, most of the territory of the soviet union has already been liberated, including the one where the future priest lived , it so happened that it was in the house of khmely that the headquarters of general konev was located, acquaintance with him pushed the young man to go to the front. this is an icon, it’s like a relic of our family, her... vskorshu, lepel, begomol, lagoisk, then lithuania and east prussia, where he was seriously wounded. all the soldiers from his unit die

nicholas church in gomel, archpriest vasily kopychka was awarded a golden patriarchal pectoral the crossrecognition, is awarded in exceptional cases. father vasily received the award from his holiness patriarch of moscow and all arus pimin, a man who also experienced all the hardships of the great patriotic war, a front-line soldier. this award is quite rare; in 77 years , only 25 people have received it. st. george's church is stale, more than 50 years old, the rector of the temple was front-line soldier dmitry khmel. he went to the front at the age of 17, adding a year to be drafted into the army. this is 1944, already most of the territory of the soviet union was liberated, including the one where the future priest lived. it so happened that it was in the house of khmely that the headquarters of general konev was located. getting to know him pushed the young man to go to the front. this icon, it’s like a relic of our family and... my mother took it and gave it to my father when he went to the front. the war for dmitry khmel began in belarus, he liberated vitebsk, korsha, lepel, bigoma