Old Believers carry a cross to erect it on the site of the hermitages

Parishioners of the Church of the All-Merciful Savior (Belokrinitsky Agreement community of Old Believers) are carrying a memorial cross to install it on the site of former Old Believers’ sketes. The Old Believers were, in fact, the first Russian settlers in the Middle Urals, where they helped make up the workforce of the Demidov factories. The Old Believers could live in relative safety there.