On April 25, 2023, at the weekly Tuesday youth gathering in the parish hall of St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in New York, the documentary film “A Journey through America in Search of Russia,” devoted to the history of Russian emigration on the Pacific coast of the USA, was screened.
The film was shown as part of the initiative of the Russian American Cultural Heritage Center (RACSI), following which in 2012 the New York State Senate established April as Russian and Russian-Speaking Americans History Month.
After the film, Hegumen Nikodim (Balyasnikov), who serves at St. Nicholas Cathedral in San Francisco, spoke to the young people.