Russian Orthodox charitable organizations, and in particular Russian Orthodox orphanages, are increasingly common in Russia with the machine translated incomplete list below numbering nearly 30 different institutions all over the country. Some are state sponsored, while others are run privately out of single-family homes, but all are organized and supported by the Russian Orthodox Church.

This list was compiled by miloserdie.ru, one of Russia’s leading sites for charity, in 2006. Since then their number has increased dramatically.

Moscow and Moscow region

Spiritual-educational charitable institution at the Church of the Ascension behind Serpukhovskiy gates

Since 1994, the children left without parental care were brought up. Due to the repair of the building in January 2004, children were moved to other orphanages. After the renovation, 10-12 year old children of servicemen (preferably from the Moscow Military District), who died in the hot spots, were recruited again. It is designed for 12 people. Children study in cadet school #1700. Out-of-school education (outings, hikes, firearms training, clubs, sections) provides an orphanage.

Address: 24 B. Serpukhovskaya Street, Building 2, Moscow, 115093

Phone: 958-24-24

Director - Oskolkov Nikolay Anatolievich.

Orthodox St. Sophia orphanage (mixed)

Address: Moscow, Krupskaya street, 12a.

Phone: (095) 133-87-25.

Director - Astvatsaturova Inna Kornelievna.

The confessor is Archpriest Arkady Shatov, Rector of the Church of St. Tsarevich Dimitry in the First City Hospital.

There are 14 children from 7 to 20 years old.

Most of the children attend St. Demetrius and the Traditional Gymnasium, two attend the Sisters of Mercy School and two attend public schools.

Additional classes include singing, English and drawing. Children attend Sunday School at St. Blessed Tsarevich Demetrius Church.

Orthodox St. Dimitrius Orphanage (mixed) for girls

Address: Moscow, Samed Vurgun Street, 3.

Phone: 151-78-62, 151-78-66

Director - Lidia Vladimirovna Nikulina.

Children from 3 to 18 years old, 32 girls. 4 boys are brothers.

Children attend St. Dimitrievsky and Traditional Gymnasiums.

Preschool education and clubs (music, drama, drawing and modeling) in the orphanage. A speech therapist and a specialist in therapeutic physical training work with the children. In the summer the children go to a summer cottage in the Moscow region. There are also pilgrimage trips.

Orthodox orphanage "Peacock" (for boys)

Established in 1999 at the Church of St. Mitrofan Voronezh.

Address: 22, Timiryazevskaya str.

Phone: 977-60-74, 977-60-77.

Website: www.pavlin.mrezha.ru

Director - Tatyana Abramovna Krivozertseva.

The spiritual leader of the children - Priest Feodor Krechetov. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the orphanage - Archpriest Demetrius Smirnov.

Designed for 25 children from 3 to 18 years, now there are 18 children from 7 to 15 years.

Classes are extracurricular: music, choral singing, theater studio, drawing, equestrianism, swimming, decorative arts and crafts, carpentry. Schoolchildren study in the gymnasium "Light".

Orphanage for girls at the Marfo-Mariinsky Monastery of Mercy.

Address: 109017, Moscow, B. Ordynka Street, 34.

Phone: (095) 951-84-46.

The shelter is in the process of reorganization, the information is being clarified

Orthodox Myshkin Orphanage (mixed)

Established at the Moscow Church of St. Mitrofan Voronezh.

Address: 148222, Moscow region, Mozhaisk district, P/o Goretovo, Myshki Children's Shelter, Titovka street 2a.

Phone: 976-79-51.

Director: Vasily Mikhailovich Sysoev.

Fifteen children from 4 to 17 years old.

Spiritual director of the children: Priest Dmitry Tyurin. Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov supervises the organizational issues.

Non-state educational institution "Boarding School named after. St. Sergius".

Address: Toporkovo village, Sergiev Posad district, Moscow region. Phones: 786-4323, 786-8785

Director: Elena Korableva.

Founded in November 2000 by Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra with the blessing of His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II for the purpose of Orthodox education and education of boys, left without parental care. The age range is from 5 to 17 years old.

The school is designed for a 24-hour stay of 200 children. The school implements the state standard of secondary (complete) education. Classes are not crowded with more than 15 people. The school is equipped with modern equipment.

Special Correctional Orthodox Children's Home (mixed)

Children's home for children with mental retardation

Address: 142401, Moscow Region, Noginsk, 4, Klyueva St.

Phone: (49651) 14-973

The director is Victor Alexandrovich Samozvantsev.

Clergy of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Noginsk provide care for the orphanage.

Clergyman - Priest Oleg Volkov.

There are 20 children from 11 to 19 years old.

Extracurricular education aikido, sewing, housekeeping

Shelter in the Odintsovo Social and Cultural Center

Address: Moscow region, Mozhaiskoe highway, 72. The center is located in the church of Grebnevskaya icon of the Mother of God.

Phone: (498) 595-10-16, 595-18-40, 595-17-55.

Director - Natalya Burenkova.

Clergyman - priest Nikolay Kolesnik.

The Center is able to house 30 children. The Center was opened on August 7, 2004. Currently there are 19 children in the shelter and since opening there have been 59 children in total, many of them have been placed in families. Pedagogical, medical, psychological and legal assistance is provided to the children. The center has a house church in honor of St. Elizabeth.

Orthodox Social Shelter "Nikita" (mixed)

It was opened in 2003 on the basis of the orthodox camp "Nikita".

Address: Moscow region, Pavlovo-Posad district, Byvalino village, church of St. Nicholas.

Phone: (09643) 7 11 80.

The confessor and director - hegumen Amvrosy (Shevchuk).

33 children from 7 months to 17 years. The orphanage "Nikita" is already 13 years old. Students go to several neighborhood schools, both regular and remedial. Children live in a separate building. The older students of 15-16 years old live in separate cells. Caregivers in "Nikita" six: all women, some in the monastic tonsure, some just laymen. Teachers of computer science and English language come to "Nikita" every week. Many children go to Pavlovsky Posad to the music school. Students of "Nikita" play the violin, cello, domra and accordion.

Orthodox Children's Social Rehabilitation Center "Pokrov".

Designed for 15-20 girls from the Russian Federation.

Tel: 8-926-234-87-11

Director: Zhuravleva Natalia Ivanovna.

Spiritual director: priest Vitaly Tkachev.

Address and bank details of the shelter:

Non-State Institution of Social Service "Orthodox children's social-rehabilitation center "Pokrov"

19 Sadovaya St., Yakovlevo village, Leninsky district, Moscow region, 142793

p/c 40703810940330141148 with Sberbank of Russia OJSC, Moscow (POB #2573)

30101810400000000225 in Operational Department of Moscow Central Bank of Russia

REFERENCE NUMBER 044525225 KPP 500 301 001 INN 5003063150

Wanted for work: a cook, a medical worker, educators, assistants

tutors.

Children's Shelter Boarding School at the Pokrovsky Khotkovo Stavropigialny Convent (for girls)

Address: 141370 Russia Moscow region, Sergiev Posad district, Khotkovo.

Phone: (254) 3-64-45.

Director - Hegumna Olimpiada (Baranova).

Clergyman - Hegumen Amvrosiy (Kravchenko).

25 girls, from 3 to 16 years old. They study at the school № 1 in Khokhloma. Khotkovo. Children involved, drawing, singing, sculpting, studying the Law of God. In the summer the girls help on the farm, picking berries and herbs.

St. Petersburg

Children's Shelter of Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolayevna - a division of the Social and Rehabilitation Center for Minors "House of Mercy" (state institution).

The orphanage was founded in 1844 by Nicholas I in memory of his daughter, who died at age 19 from an unsuccessful delivery and consumption. At the orphanage stood the church of Tsarina Alexandra of Rome. In 1917, the orphanage was closed and the church was blown up. Since 2002, the revival of the orphanage and the church began.

Address: St. Petersburg, Lermontovsky Prospect, 51a.

Phone: (812) 251-39-26.

The head of the department is Tatyana Viktorovna Sokolova.

The shelter is cared for by the clergy of the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Izmailovsky Regiment.

The clergyman is Archpriest Gennady Bartov.

Staff rates and food for the children are paid by the state, and the rest is paid for by donations from the Church.

In the shelter there are 12 pre-school children (ranging from 3 to 7 years), during the year they are looking for a foster family. It is planned to accept up to 20 children.

Most of the children are from St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

Arkhangelsk

Shelter for girls at St. John Theologian nunnery

Address: Arkhangelsk region, Primorsky district, p/o Khorkovo, d. Ershovka.

Phone: (8182) 25-51-94.

Director - nun Afanasy (Rudaleva).

Clergyman - Hieromonk Artemy (Kozlov).

10 girls, from 7 to 18 years old, live by the monastic charter, sing in the choir, teachers come to the monastery. There is since 1994. Embroidery, drawing, singing, sewing, knitting, weaving rugs, carpets, taking care of livestock. Large subsistence farming.

Belgorod

Prokhorovsky Orthodox children's home-school in the name of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, for boys

Pupils of Prokhorovka Orthodox Children's Home-School in the name of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul visited the local military unit

Address: Prokhorovka 51, Prokhorovka district, Prokhorovka village, 309000 Belgorod region.

Phone: 8 (47242) 23 250.

Director - Irina Agafonova.

The confessor is Archpriest Kirill Elkin of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.

The orphanage opened on December 7, 2003. 19 boys from 7 to 10 years old. In the house was created an orthodox squad, classes are held in combat training, hand-to-hand combat, and soccer. Classes are held on patriotic education of personality.

Vladimir

Kovcheg" shelter for girls at Holy Trinity Stefano-Makhrishche Convent

Address: 601632, Vladimir region, Alexandrovsky district, Mahra village, Monastery.

Phone: (49244) 5-21-45.

Director: nun Amvrosia (Elkina).

Clergyman: priest Oleg Mikhailov, a clergyman of the Assumption nunnery of the city of Aleksandrov.

The Shelter was opened in 2002. There are 24 girls from 5 to 16 years old from all over Russia. They study in a rural school, where, in addition to general subjects, they study the Law of God. They study music school, singing, knitting and embroidery.

Volgograd

Children's home of the Volgograd eparchy (for girls)

Address: 400012, Volgograd, 77 Zhukova avenue.

Phone: (8442) 35-76-32, 35-73-89.

The director is Natalya Petrovna Brigadirenko.

The library has been functioning since July 31, 2004. Its official opening took place in September 2004. It was founded by the Volgograd eparchy.

The orphanage has 22 girls from 3 to 12 years old. There are 27 children in the orphanage. All the girls are from Volgograd, 60% of them are social orphans.

Children go to the Church of the Prophet John the Baptist.

Clergyman - priest Alexander Moskalenko.

The state pays money for children's food, shoes, soft equipment, provides education and treatment. Children are assigned to a clinic, going to the nearest public school 37. Provides a summer vacation for children. The diocese pays the salaries of the staff and pays for utilities.

Sewing and needlework, the basics of Orthodoxy, literary reading, drawing, and church singing clubs.

Ekaterinburg

Orthodox shelter for girls at the Novo-Tikhvinsky monastery in the name of St. Martyr Elisabeth.

Address: Yekaterinburg, 77 B, Norilskaya str.

Phone: (343) 347-47-28,348-26-29, 348-48-41, 347-54-51

Clergyman: priest George Velichkin.

Director: Tatyana Altushkina.

It was founded in 2001 on the basis of the kindergarten. 26 girls from orphanages of Yekaterinburg and the region, from 3 years old to 10 years old. They study in the building of the shelter, according to the program of the Orthodox gymnasium, which is located in the city. The orphanage has a house church in honor of St. Elizabeth the Martyr. They are engaged in music school (violin, flute, piano, church choir, alfeggio).

Ivanovo

Shelter under the Orthodox female gymnasium in Privolzhsk

Address: 155550, Privolzhsk city of Ivanovo region, 2nd Ovrazhny Lane 2.

Phone: (49339), 3-15-29; 3-20-99, fax 3-19-72.

The clergyman is Abbot Daniel (Sorokin), the director is Nun Evgeniya (Podoleschenko), the head teacher is Lyudmila Sokolova.

The gymnasium was opened in 1997. The gymnasium is attended by 50 girls, 10 of whom are orphans, living in two houses, in the care of St. Nicholas Convent. Almost all the children are from Privolzhsk.

In addition to the secondary school there are drawing, music and knitting clubs.

A new gymnasium building is being built on the territory of the monastery. There will be more housing for orphans, it is planned to expand the orphanage.

Kaluga

Orthodox family orphanage "Rozhdestvensky"

Address: 249703, Kaluga region, Kozelsky district, Nizhniye Pryski village.

Phone: (48442) 2-42-45.

Web site: www.f-r.ru

Director: Mr. Andrey Zavrazhnov, tel. 8-495-776-42-43

Clergy - Archimandrite Elijah of the Optina Hermitage and Archpriest Leontiy Nikiforov, rector of the Church of Transfiguration of Our Lord in the village of Nizhnie Pryskie.

33 children from all over Russia from 6 months to 13 years old.

Subsistence farming, 4 cows, 4 sheep, 2 lambs and a calf. The children go camping, attend public school. In the shelter there are sports sections (equipped with a new gym), carpentry and knitting.

Children's Orthodox Shelter "Joy" at St. Nicholas Chernoostrovsky nunnery

Address: Kaluga region, Maloyaroslavets, Kutuzova street, 4

Phone: (48431) 2-14-15

E-mail: otrada@kaluga.ru

Director - Director Elena Gracheva Viktorovna.

The club is attended by 55 girls from 1.5 to 18 years old from all over Russia and some from the CIS countries; most of the girls are the children of alcoholics and drug addicts.

Besides studying the girls are engaged in singing, music, drawing, choreography, embroidery. They study in the Orthodox Gymnasium of St. Nicholas of Chernoostrovsky Monastery.

Kostroma

Children orphanage named after St. John of Kronstadt at the Epiphany-Anastasiya nunnery

Address: 26, Bogoyavlenskaya street, Kostroma, 156000, Russia.

Phone: (4942) 31-36-07.

Director: Abbess Innokenty (Travina).

Web page: church.kostroma.net/app13.htm.

The church was opened in 1993. Its first charges were 10 girls from 4 to 12 years old, who were brought to the cloister from the institutions of social care. Many of them were in poor health, and some of them had mental health problems and functional disorders of the psyche.

The orphanage is equipped with five specialized classes, where the girls, in addition to general school disciplines, learn the basics of housekeeping, cooking, sewing, knitting, drawing, embroidery art, and some even try their hand at painting icons. The choir, made up of the wards of the orphanage, sings not only at all-day services, but also at solemn bishop services at the Cathedral of the Epiphany and Anastasia.

Orthodox family children's home at St. Nicholas Church in the village of Kotkishevo (for boys)

Address: 157364, Kostroma region, Neya district, p/o Kotkishevo, v. Dementievo.

Phone: (49444) 2-23-20

E-mail: info@kotkishevo.ru

Website: www.kotkishevo.ru

Clergyman - Rector of St. Nicholas Church Hieromonk Bartholomew (Kolomacki).

Nineteen children between the ages of 7 and 17 live in three foster families, each of which the parish has provided a separate home and everything they need. All the children are from the Kostroma region.

The state pays an allowance to support the children.

A large subsistence farm is being created. There are cows, horses, bees, a kennel of northern sled dogs "Northern Hope".

Kovalevsky

Orthodox education institution for orphaned boys of the family type.

Address: 157811, Kostroma region, Nerekhty district, p/o Lavrovo, v. Kovalevo.

Phone: 8-(49431)33-193.

E-mail: andrey_nerehta@yahoo.com

Website: www.cirota.ru

The director is Archpriest Andrey Voronin, rector of the Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in Nerekhta. In the orphanage there is a house church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The state is a co-founder.

At present, the orphanage has 42 children, eight of whom are brought up in Orthodox families living in the city and district. Most of the children are from the Kostroma region.

Family type of upbringing, big outbuildings, sport sections (sambo, judo), extreme tourism, mountaineering and rock climbing. Own film studio.

Krasnodar

Rozhdestvensky Specialized Correctional Children's Home for Developmentally Challenged Children, Type VII (mixed)

Address: 350089, Krasnodar, Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment, 1.

Phone: (8-861) 261-92-62, 261-92-63.

E-mail: hramrh@mail.ru

Director - Olga Kulik.

The confessor is Archpriest Alexander Ignatov, rector of the Nativity of Christ Church.

The three-story orphanage was built with the blessing of Metropolitan Yekaterinodar and Kuban Isidor at the Church of the Nativity of the Charitable Institution "St. Elisabeth Charity House. September 10, 2005 was opened, Metropolitan Isidor consecrated the orphanage. The orphanage is designed for 60 orphans between the ages of 3 and 6, who will live here until the age of 18. Currently, it is home to 35 children who came here from various orphanages in the Krasnodar Territory.

There are plans to introduce soft toy and carpentry classes for boys.

There is also an Orthodox culture study group and a Kuban community room. Speech therapists, psychologists, social pedagogues, defectologists are working.

Nizhny Novgorod

Girls' Shelter at Iverskoy Convent of Vyksa

Address: Nizhny Novgorod region, Vyksa, 58, Krasnoflotskaya str.

Phone: (83177) 33-879.

The director - nun Antonia (Mironova).

On the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 2005, four girls from an orphanage were brought to the monastery, two from Nizhny Novgorod Region and two from Ivanovo. Nun Antonia, the abbess of the monastery, recently formalized guardianship over them. Two of the girls are 8 years old, one is 6 and one is 4. The older ones go to the city school and knitting group.

Orenburg

The large family of Archpriest Nikolai Stremsky

Address: 462100, Orenburg region, Saraktash village, Pushkina street, 77 Holy Trinity Congregation of Mercy, Holy Trinity Cathedral

Phone: 8 (353-33) 6-12-32, 6-04-61

е-mailе:niks@mail.esoo.ru

http://www.stobitel.ru

Since 1991 Father Nikolai Stremski and his wife, Matushka Galina, have adopted and taken into foster care more than 60 children from orphanages (from 2 to 18 years of age). 25 boys, 35 girls. 6 have married and been married. 25 adopted, the rest under guardianship. At the monastery there is a middle school in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh, from 1 to 11 classes, separate teaching. Children are engaged in dancing, singing, music (piano and psaltery), cooking. There is a carpentry workshop. Household yard.

Republic of Tatarstan

The children's corps at Raifa monastery (orphanage for boys)

The director - Ekaterina Nazarova.

Clergyman - Hieromonk Anthony (Tankin)

Address: 422523, Russia, Tatarstan, Zelenodolsk district, Raifa settlement, Raifa monastery.

Phone: 8-84371-3-47-59, 8-84371-3-47-07.

Fax: 8-8432-66-83-71.

E-mail: raifa@raifa.ru

http://www.raifa.ru/detkor

There are 25 boys in the shelter, ages 8 to 17. They attend public school. In addition to the school curriculum, they also study the law of God, English and auto classes at the monastery. Created vocal and instrumental ensemble "Rodnik", TV studio "Resurrection" and "Children's Newspaper".

Tula

Family orthodox shelter of St. Elizabeth (mixed)

Address: 301730, Tula region. Khitrovshchina village, 89, Kimovskiy district.

Phone: 8-920-274-52-24.

The director and foster mother is Olga Ivanovna Frolova.

The confessor is hieromonk Alexander (Lamako).

There are 8 children in the shelter, from 4 months to 18 years old. Children are cared for in the Church of the Annunciation in the village Khitrovschina. Most of the children, with the blessing of the confessor, were taken under the care of Olga Ivanovna. Some live in the shelter periodically - mothers in distress bring their children to stay for a while.