Orthodox volunteers in the Komi Republic have successfully restored the wooden Chapel of the Presentation of the Most Holy Mother of God, built in 1838. The volunteers replaced rotted timber fragments and freed the lower logs embedded in the ground to prevent them from decaying.

According to local reports, the restoration of the chapel was led by Sergey Pavlyushin, Deputy Chief of the Komi Heritage Preservation Department, who had also participated in the previous restoration of this religious site in 1998. This time, he was assisted by Alexander Pankratov, an associate professor at the Information Technology Department of the Russian University of Friendship of Peoples; Evgeny Khudin, a researcher at the Ethnography Department of the National Museum of Komi; and Vladimir Goncharov, a history teacher at Secondary School No. 24 in Syktyvkar.

The Chapel of the Presentation of the Most Holy Mother of God, located in the village of Srednyaya Otla, Knyazhpogostsky District, has stood for 185 years. An inscription with the date and the names of the builders, "1838. Builder Alexey Lapin. Master A.L.," is preserved on the door jamb.

During the Soviet era, the chapel was closed and used as a storage facility. It was last restored in 1998 and reconsecrated the same year. However, in the summer of 2020, a large fire broke out in the village, destroying residential buildings surrounding the chapel. Thankfully, the chapel itself was successfully protected and remained unharmed.