On November 19, Sergey Kirienko, the head of the board of trustees on restoration of the Sarov and Diveyevo monasteries, the first deputy of the head of the Administration of President of Russia, visited the Seraphim-Diveyevo monastery and took part in the Divine Liturgy, prayed at the Holy Kanavka, and inspected the Annunciation Cathedral.

Accompanying him were Metropolitan Georgiy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, Protopresbyter Sergey Matveev, Secretary of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocesan Office, Hegumenia Sergia (Konkova), the abbess of the Seraphim-Diveyevo monastery, Igor Komarov, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in Privolzhsky Federal District, Gleb Nikitin, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Alexander Schylokov, Mayor of Arzamas, Sergey Obozov, deputy General Director on the development of the production system at the “Rosatom” State Corporation, Igor Barinov, head of the Federal Agency on the matters of ethnic nationalities, Igor Filippov, Director of the “Sarov-Diveyevo cluster development management company” autonomous non-profit organization, Valentin Kostyukov, Director of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center, and Rev. Fr. Alexander Gimoyan, assistant of the head of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese on administrative and maintenance issues.