Archpastoral service of Guriy (secular surname – Yegorov), Metropolitan Simferopol and the Crimea under Soviet power
Journal: Vestnik of Kostroma State University
Year: 2019

The article is devoted to the life and archpastoral service of Metropolitan of Crimea and Simferopol Guriy (Yegorov), Candidate of Theology, who passed through prison camps and deportations from the Arctic Ocean and the White Sea–Baltic Canal to Central Asia, Ashkhabad and Tashkent; the founder and one of the leaders of Alexander Nevsky fraternity in Leningrad, who secretly preserved the traditions of Russian monasticism and theological and pastoral knowledge. The scientifi c signifi cance of th