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Solemn consecration of memorial chapel in honor of St. Alexander Nevsky was held on Sept 15 in Kaliningrad at Baltic Fleet (BF) Logistic Automobile Battalion headed by Lt Col Alexander Kostin, told BF Information Support Group to .
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Orthodox Chapel Founded at Baltic Fleet
09/21/2011 |
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The ceremony was attended by representatives of the battalion command, Kaliningrad Eparchy, local administration, WW2 veterans and retired officers. After the act of consecration conducted by Baltic Bishop Seraphim, guests laid wreaths at communal grave where rest 307 Soviet soldiers fallen in the Great Patriotic War during the Koenigsberg assault operation.
Construction of the memorial chapel started in May 2007 and finished in Sept 2011. That was the battalion commander Lt Col Alexander Kostin who proposed to build a chapel near military memorial and kindled interest of veterans and partial people.
Rector of the Holy Mother's Church archpriest Vadim Netkachev will conduct services in the new chapel.