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- ↑ Sanidopoulos, John (April 4, 2018). "Maria Berushko of Brazil and Eight Students who Died Trying to Save Children During a Fire in their School (+1986)". Mystagogy Resource Center.
- ↑ Religious Information Service of Ukraine Portal News, in Ukrainian
- ↑ Orthodoxy in Ukraine Portal, 15.10.2007, Ukrainian language
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