This article deals with the story of the creation of the Surgut Orthodox Mission; it’s financing, goals, methods, phases and achievements. The author examines the objective and subjective difficulties that the missionaries endured during their mission. She demonstrates that, notwithstanding great hardships the missionaries had great success in the dissemination of Christianity and education of the locals in the Tobol North region.
Surgut orthodox mission, priest, missionary work, paganism, baptism