The 17th Don Cossack Regiment of the Volunteer Assault Corps Don Cossack Brigade of General Baklanov completed training and combat coordination. Before being sent to the special operations zone, the soldiers of the regiment arrived at the Patriarchal Ascension All-Cossack Military Cathedral in the city of Novocherkassk, where a solemn prayer ceremony was held. This was reported by telegram channel “The First Cossack”.
“In addition to participating in the solemn prayer ceremony on the occasion of going to the front, the Cossacks were also treated to another important ceremony – nailing to the mast and consecration of the regimental banner. According to Cossack traditions, only after that the regiment was considered officially formed and its date began to be counted down.
The first nail was hammered by the Ataman of the Military Cossack Community “Great Don Army”, Deputy Governor of the Rostov Region Sergei Bodryakov. Later, the regiment commander with the call sign “Vector”, the confessor of the Great Don Army Father Georgy, soldiers of the Northern Military District from Novocherkassk Cossacks and a Russian cadet attended the ceremony. Don Emperor Alexander III from the Cossack cadet corps.
At the end of the ceremony, some humanitarian and technical aid materials collected by Don Cossacks were distributed to the warriors.
Previously the portal “Russian Cossacks” was called amount Cossacks participating in the special operation.