The territory of this district Semkhoz Sergiyev Posad Pereslavl took place in the ancient road. As it traveled St. Sergius of Radonezh in the search for a suitable location for the Trinity Monastery. The first settlements appeared here in the XV-XVI centuries. In the annals mentioned Nikolskoye village with wooden church of the same name. Already in the XVII century, the village empties. Only the cemetery and the church when it looked like before the start of the XIX century of the existence of life here. In 1929, Soviet authorities organized on the outskirts of Zagorsk (formerly Sergiev Posad name) seed farming. Hence the name of the district. Since 1964, he settled in Semkhoz known Orthodox priest about. Alexander Men. In the village of New Village (Pushkin) is Candlemas church, which served as archpriest and since 1989, every day getting there by train.

Alexander was born in Moscow in 1935 into a Jewish family. His father, Vladimir G. Men, studied at a Jewish religious school in Ukraine, and his mother, Elena Semenovna Men with youth ran to Christianity. When he was six months old, my mother secretly took baptism. Alexander was baptized on the same day. After graduating from the Moscow School of AV Men she began teaching in 1953 at the Moscow Fur Institute, but in the fifth year, was expelled for religious views. A month later the young man twenty-eight was ordained a deacon, and two years later - the priest, graduated from the Leningrad Theological Seminary. In absentia Alexander Men entered the Moscow Theological Academy and graduated from it in 1965. Broad knowledge, closeness to the secular culture and science have contributed to the recognition of a priest leading a Christian preacher of the second half of the XX century.

Proceedings of Father Alexander I and his sermons are still studying. His books have been translated into many languages. Among the most famous "History of religion" in seven volumes, established for 13 years, "How to Read the Bible" and "Bibliologichesky Dictionary." Mostly, the works of Father Alexander published abroad under various pseudonyms. Only from the 1980s the priest the opportunity to go to the Orthodox openly, including through the media. In 1990, he became one of the founders of the Russian Bible Society and was an active patron of the arts.

September 9, 1990 on the way from home to the station Fr Alexander Men was killed by a blow of an ax in the back. The crime was never solved. The investigation believes that the two men acted. One distracted the priest handed him a note, the second at this time ran back and made a hit.

  In the place where blood was shed nevinnoubiennogo righteous, in 1995 a chapel of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist .  Three years later, the chapel has found an altar and vestibule .  The project has created a chief architect of the chapel of the Sergiev Posad district in Zhuravlev .  D .  Ten years later, on the day of the death of Archpriest Alexander Men I was laid of a new church in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh .  Designer Yuri Seregin together with the architect Zhuravlev conceived besstolpny cubic temple with a head on the light drum .  Closed vault has the shape of a cross inscribed with barrel vaults .  The facades are decorated with pilasters outside .  On the west side of the church over its main entrance is square in plan belfry first rang in January 2004 .  In 2005 Archimandrite Zinon finished work on the iconostasis for the church of St. Sergius .  September 9, 2010 the church in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh was consecrated .  The memorial complex on the site of the murder of Alexander I became the symbol of the connection of the past and the present .