One year ago on May 25, 2020, the ELCIR Information Department started Online Diary, an online project in the ELCIR’s VK group https://vk.com/infoinkeri posting audio recordings of daily Bible lessons from the ELCIR Lectionary read by ELCIR clergy and lay servants from different congregations (only in Russian). More than 40 people from all of the ELCIR deaneries have taken part in this ongoing project. The project is coordinated by Information Department Secretary Olga Rudaya who also selected excellent illustrations for each post.Olga Rudaya: “It was not a very easy task to select more than 700 different illustrations such as paintings, engravings, frescoes, mosaics, sculptures, stained glass pictures, and miniatures to attach to each post! There are Bible stories for which you know a few illustrations off the top of your head, but if you need to find several dozen different pictures of such people as King David or the Apostle Paul, you do need to apply quite a bit of effort. I gave priority to either ancient or Lutheran or Russian artists. I was helped by my longtime interest in painting and by the course in Christian art expertly taught by Zinaida Lourié, Cand. Sc. (History), at our Theological Institute.”
In July 2020 when Olga was on vacation, Information Department volunteer Veronika Pogasiy helped select illustrations.
We plan to attach the audios of Online Diary to the online Liturgical Calendar on the ELCIR website elci.ru We’re going to continue learning more about our congregations! Soon we’ll start publishing interviews with church cantors!
Below is the full list of our Online Diary voices so far. Thank you to each and every one!
Deacon Yevgeni Raskatov, Annenkirche, St. Petersburg
Pastor Valeri Antipov, Rzhev and Tver
Deacon Denis Tikhomirov, Nizhny Novgorod
Deacon Pavel Tsvetkov, Kronstadt, St. Petersburg
Deacon Anton Rudoi, Chalna
Pastor Fyodor Sidorenko, Sodder
Pastor Oleg Menaker, Pitkyaranta
Pastor Aleksandr Dyshenov, Ulan-Ude
Pastor Vitali Prasolov, Shchyokino
Pastor Andrei Tuhkanen, Kalevala
Pastor Dmitri Rozet, Vyborg
Pastor Dmitri Petrov, St. Michael’s, St. Petersburg
Pastor Anatoli Pogasiy, Kazan
Pastor Sergei Gerasimov, Primorsk
Deacon Timur Pamyatnykh, Novosibirsk
Pastor Mikhail Starilov, Borisoglebsk
Pastor Viktor Ruzhinski, Kaukola
Deacon Vyacheslav Ostanin, Novosibirsk
Pastor Artur Semyonov, Kazan
Deacon Mikhail Nikulin, Pskov
Deacon Vyacheslav Shadrin, Novosibirsk
Deacon Aleksei Heglund, Ruskeala
Pastor Roman Pavlov, Skvoritsy
Pastor Fyodor Tulynin, Jaani Kirik, St. Petersburg
Pastor Pavel Ananyev, Segezha
Altar server Daniil Andreyev, Vyborg
Lector Igor Protasov, Vyborg
Deacon Igor Pavlov, Annenkirche, St. Petersburg
Catechist Vladislav Golubovas, Olonets
Catechist Ivan Malikin, Kalevala
Catechist Aleksandr Protasov, Irkutsk
Catechist Valeri Trusov, Kazan
Pastor Dmitri Lotov, Sts. Peter and Paul, Moscow
Deacon Igor Kuznetsov, Syktyvkar
Minister Pavel Tkachenko, Novorossiysk
Maksim Zuyev, Kursk
Deacon Dmitri Avdeyev, Gubanitsy
Catechist Andrei Bratchenko, Jaani Kirik, St. Petersburg
Pastor Mikhail Ivanov, St. Mary’s Cathedral, St. Petersburg
Deacon Yevgeni Kostenko, Rzhev
Ministrant Maksim Masalski, Annenkirche, St. Petersburg
Deacon Valeri Nikulin, Krasnoyarsk
By Darya Shkurlyatyeva, Head of the ELCIR Information Department