On June 9, the day of the memory of the righteous John of Russian, a pilgrimage trip of parishioners of the communities of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Republic of Turkey to the city of Urgup (formerly Prokopion) took place.
The Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the cave where the righteous John Russian lived while in Ottoman captivity. The divine service was performed by Priest Georgy Sergeev, responsible for the organization of the care of the faithful of the Moscow Patriarchate in the territory of the Turkish Republic, in the concelebration of clerics who care for the communities of the Moscow Patriarchate in Turkey.
More than fifty pilgrims who came from Antalya, Istanbul, Samsun, as well as Russian specialists working at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant under construction, prayed at the service.