Harry Azikov

Harry Viktorovich Azikov, a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Georgia, is an ethnic German. He was born on the 25th of April, 1937, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Since the end of 1938 he has lived in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Alexander Gross

Alexander is one of the first graduates of the full-time, on-site program at the Seminary. He graduated in July of 2002. Alexander has been working in the administration of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ukraine in Odessa since the middle of 2002. He has two spheres of responsibility – church-wide and local (Odessa area).

Evgenij Lukinov

Evgenij Viktorovich Lukinov was born on July 22, 1977, in the city of Tokmak in the Kyrgyz Republic.
In 1994, having finished school in Tokmak, he entered the Bishkek Civil Aviation College. He lived and studied there from September 1994 to January 1997, and finished a course on the helicopter MI-8.
In October of 1996 he became acquainted with the President of the Theological Seminary, Stefan Reder. This relationship in a special way influenced his future. In March of 1997, he entered the  ELCROS Seminary in Novosaratovka. From April 1997 to June of 2000 he lived and studied in Novosaratovka. Three years of life at the Seminary “gave me real friends, both among my fellow classmates and among the faculty and staff, and I also learned a lot,” he says. “Maybe that’s why I still consider the Seminary my home,” he continues.

Vladimir Provorov

Vladimir was born on May 4, 1978, in the city of Novokujbyshevsk in the Samara oblast. In the mid-90’s he began to attend the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. George in Samara. His first experience of service in the church were Sunday School lessons and visitation of the sick and elderly members of the congregation.

Ruslan Semenjukov

Ruslan works together with his wife, Maria, as a pastoral team based in the city of Chernyakhovsk in the Kaliningrad region of Russia.

Anton Tikhomirov

Anton teaches at Systematic and Practical Theology at our Seminary. You can read his full biography on the 'Teacher's' page

Sofia (Ulman) Tikhomirova

Sofia (Ulman) Tikhomirova was born in 1973; and grew up in the small town of Slavsk, Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast).  She worked from home as a dressmaker and was educated as an arts teacher before coming to the Seminary.