Russian Orthodox bishop celebrates memorial service at the Russian military cemetery in Romania

On 10 October 2017, Archbishop Sergy of Solnechnogorsk, currently on a visit to Romania with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania, celebrated memorial service at the Russian military cemetery in Braşov.

Attending the servicer were H.E. Valery Kuzmin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Romania; Colonel Alexander Shapovalov in charge of the military memorial work carried by the Russian Embassy; Russian diplomats; and Archpriest Daniel Benga, dean of the Braşov district of the metropolis of Transylvania of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

The Russian Embassy in Romania does a lot for memorialization of the Soviet soldiers who had laid down their lives for the liberation of the European nations from the German Fascists. The staff of the Embassy compiled a list of soldiers of the Soviet Army who had been killed or died in hospitals on the territory of Romania during the Second World War. Their tombs were found and put in order. 556 Soviet soldiers are buried at the cemetery in Braşov.