Biography of Oleg Artemov

As a child, he loved the technique very much, and saw himself as a tractor driver. But for the company with a friend who raved up by the sea, he went to enter the Astrakhan Saw School. Surprisingly, then his friend remained in the coastal service, and Oleg Vladislavovich got into a fluke. The future priest was military service in the Far East, in the Pacific Fleet, where he was determined at the Naval School.

There he rose to the midshipman and learned to radio engineering. At 21, he was already commanding a small ship, which served submarines. Once their ship fell into a fierce storm. During the repair, the welders burned the vessel’s body, the hole was formed, the water began to enter the nose compartment. Father Oleg recalled that they managed to escape due to the fact that they had several torpedoes in the stern, which gave a counterweight.

And they did not sank because of the opposite cargo. A few years later, despite the already impressive maritime experience by that time, Artyomov decided to return “to land”, to civilian life. He came to the small homeland, but he did not stay here for a long time. With the beginning of the Chechen campaign, a native of Kislovodsk joined the Cossack unit, participated in hostilities, rose in the Terek army to the Koshevoy Ataman.

However, the Cossack circle decided that the army needed a priest. And in the life of Oleg Artemov there was another cool turn. The naval officer and the Cossack were ordained into deacons, followed by priests. More than 11 served in the temple of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the village of Komsomolets in the Stavropol Territory. In M, the abbot remembered the marine past and went to Kamchatka, where he became an assistant to the division commander of the atomic submarines of strategic purpose.

During the service on the submarine, he as part of the unit went into the sea 15 times. The priest, along with everyone, prepared fire extinguishing means and prayed, and with it the whole team prayed. I managed to cope with fire. Oleg Vladislavovich left the Kamchatka service in the year. In Moscow, he took the retraining courses of the military clergy and went to serve in the Northern capital, where he became the rector of the Church of St.

Ignatius Bryanchaninov at the Military Engineering Institute. Then the native of Stavropol received San Archpriest. The abbot was not able to escape from the sea in the city on the Neva-he was invited to go on an expedition to the Research Oceanographic vessel "Admiral Vladimir" as a ship priest. The campaign dragged on for six months. The vessel has been into 8-bary storms by the ship, when the fixed tables and chairs tore off.

Doctors in that expedition had to conduct emergency operations twice. But everyone was sure, once on board - a priest, everything would be safe. During this time, the naval past of the priest has repeatedly helped scientists. Once in the Indian Ocean, a steering device failed. The moment was dangerous, during the storm the ship could turn sideways to the wave and it could overturn. The priest climbed to the mechanics and helped to determine what the cable was interrupted from the rumpel compartment.

The breakdown was eliminated, and avoid shipwreck. Another time, a cooling pump at the engine was out of order on the boat. Few people were familiar with this type of American engine. And Father Oleg immediately rolled up his sleeves, dismantled it, replaced the broken detail. And the boat wound up. The priest, along with Admiral Vladimir, passed two circles. With him there were always a holy gospel, a cross and epitrachil.

Five liters of lamp oil were stored for the ship's temple. In distant campaigns and in autonomics, he bought up eight people. In November, the Archpriest returned to land. He thought everything that the Lord gives is for the better. In recent years, the priest was a priest of the military deanery, an assistant commander of the brigade for working with believers. Archpriest Oleg Artemov was a very conscientious, open, responsive person, ”says Father Vasily Boyko.

Everyone noted that he loved the truth. He believed that it would not be painful, but it is better to tell the truth what it is. Than to conceal something. He was a very kind and very bright person. He felt a military straightening in it, he always tried to help everyone, help, said: “So for sure”, “Good.” And so, on March 24, this amazing, full of unexpected turns, the life path broke off.

In the evening, being in the village of Zhuravlevka, the father came under fire and died in the performance of the duties of the assistant commander of the unit with believers. ” The Lord Almighty, one of the time and time of the Acts. The whole life of the deceased and in the worst of his death became the active performance of these gospel words. ” The Chin of the funeral service was performed by the bishop of the Kronstadt Nazarii in the service of the clergy of the Synodal Department for interaction with the armed forces and law enforcement agencies.

The Synodal Department for Interaction with the Armed Forces and Law enforcement agencies.