This is stated in a message on the university website.

“On the night of January 20, 2020, at the 58th year of his life, Professor of the Department of General and Russian Church History and Canon Law, Doctor of Church History, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Vice-Rector of PSTU for International Work Archpriest George Orekhanov went to the Lord,” the obituary says .

In November 2019, the president of St. Petersburg State University and the former rector of the university, Lyudmila Verbitskaya, died.

At the end of May last year in Moscow, the historian died, the author of more than 150 scientific works, Natalia Basovskaya.