Nicholas Church
Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker is considered the spiritual patron of Russia. Many temples were erected in his honour on our land; Kamchatka is no exception. The church in Nikolaevka village is named after St. Nicholas, and the village has the same name. It is surprising that in Soviet times it was not renamed. Now the temple is open, its rector is Priest Alexander Alexeev.
In the 1920s, the current church building was originally a chapel in Petropavlovsk. When the children had no place to study, the Communists decided to transfer the church building to the school. They dismantled the chapel, tied up in rafts and transported to Nikolayevka through the bay, and then along the river Bystraya in a 24-tonne kungas. Then the temple was carried on horseback on October 3, 1925, the temple was assembled in the form in which it stood in the city, only without crosses. There was a school, a club, workshops for children, a dining room. When they built a new school building, the building was given the status of a temple.