[2][3] The Izborsky club was created by a group of Russian intellectuals [citation needed] in September 2012 amidst celebration of the 1,150th anniversary of the city of Izborsk with support from Pskov regional governor Andrey Turchak.

[5] The club's meetings, according to official information on its website, were held in Yekaterinburg, Ulyanovsk, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Bryansk, Belgorod, Tula, Kaluga, Omsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, Donetsk and other cities, as well as in Yakutia, Dagestan and in Crimea.

This merger implies introducing into the structure and system of the state of a powerful element of social justice, which is inherited from the USSR, and a return to the Orthodox-Christian spirituality and universality of traditional Russia.

Its meetings were attended by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, governors of many regions and presidents of national republics (Yakutia, Dagestan, Chechnya).

"Prokhanovshchina" is much more dangerous than the overt communist and radical leftist ideology ... Prokhanov wants to unite executioners and victims, destroyers and creators, revolutionaries and guardians.

An attempt to unite good and evil is the most dangerous basis of "Prokhanovism".Publicist Elena Chudinova criticizes the Izborsky Club, believing that its members adhere to isolationist views.

Authors of the article on bbc.com, Mikhail Poplavsky and Olga Alisova, reported that the Belgorod Metropolis denied involvement in the divine service on the Prokhorovsky field and spoke out against defining the image as an icon, since the people appearing on it were not canonized as saints.