On December 9 th Department of History and Theory of Church Art hold a public meeting in the Moscow Theological Academy. It was chaired by Kvlividze N. V., Head of department. Professors, postgraduates, students as well as other guests interested in art and life of the department attended the meeting. Also a director of the Moscow Theological Academy museum was invited to the session.

On December 5 th a concert “Music and soul” took place in the Elizabethan’s hall of the Moscow Theological Academy. It was hold by the initiative of a third year student Gleb Shumko and his wife Maria Shumko, student of the Crimean Federal university, with the blessing of an administration of the Moscow Theological Academy.

On November 5 students of the Moscow Theological Academy started a series of meetings aimed for elderly people in Sergiev Posad. The first lesson of “Internet for beginners” programme took place in the Municipal Labor and Social Protection Department.

On November 21st, Day of Archangel Michel and All Angels and God's Powers, His Beatitude Theofilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem and His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, performed the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

On November 19th the exhibition was opened in the Moscow Theological Academy museum also known as a Church & Archeological Cabinet. The exhibition called “The siege of the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Monastery. Its Defenders in heaven and on earth” tells about warriors who tried to protect the monastery and an intercession of St. Sergius and St. Nicolas the Wondermaker. The siege lasted for about 16 months from September 23rd 1608 to January 12th 1610.

On November 11 th Oleg Suhanov, Moscow Theological Academy teacher and a member of the Russian Orthodox Church Academic Council, took part in an inter-regional theoretical and practical conference “Orthodox religious education, physical education and sport”.

On November 14 th the regular meeting of Dissertation Council #2 took place in the Moscow Theological Academy. The Council includes the Church History department, Church-practical department, Philology (Slavic languages) and the department of History and Theory of Church Art. Archpriest Victor Lisyunin and hieromonk Iosif (Korolyov) defended their candidate dissertations.

On November 13th Andrey Tutunov, Consultant of Church Art restoration, handed over 1913’s photo album with the Moscow Theological Academy graduates’ photos.

On the November 11th representatives of the Moscow Theological Academy, the Institute of Coptic Studies and the Coptic Theological Seminary met in Elizabeth’s hall due to have a round table discussion dedicated to the partnership between theological institutions.