On the territory of the present district Semkhoz Sergiev Posad in ancient times passed Pereslavl road. It traveled to St. Sergius of Radonezh in search of a convenient place for the Trinity monastery. The first settlements appeared here in the XV-XVI centuries. In the annals Nikolskoye village with a wooden Church of the same name. Already in the XVII century the village empties. Only the cemetery and the temple when it was recalled until the early nineteenth century about the existence of life here. In 1929, the Soviet authorities organized on the outskirts of Zagorsk (former name of Sergiev Posad) seed farm. Hence the name of the neighborhood. Since 1964 in Semkhoz settled known Orthodox priest, FR Alexander Men. In the village New Village (Pushkin) stands the Church of purification, which served as Archpriest since 1989, daily getting there by train.

Born Alexander in Moscow in 1935 to a Jewish family. His father, Vladimir G. Men, attended a Jewish religious school in Ukraine, and his mother, Elena Semenovna Men, from childhood, he was drawn to Christianity. When the boy was six months old, the mother secretly took the rite of baptism. Alexander was baptized on the same day. After graduating from the Moscow school of V. A. Men began training in 1953 at the Moscow fur Institute, but in the fifth year was expelled for religious views. In a month-old young man was ordained a deacon, and two years later, the priest, having finished the Leningrad theological Seminary. In absentia Alexander Men entered the Moscow theological Academy and graduated in 1965. Wide erudition, proximity to secular culture and science has led to the recognition of a priest leading a Christian preacher of the second half of the twentieth century.

The works of Alexander and his sermons are still investigating. His books have been translated into many languages. Among the most well-known "History of religion" in seven volumes, established for 13 years, "How to read the Bible" and "Bibliological dictionary". Mainly, the work of father Alexander were released abroad under various pseudonyms. Only since the 1980s, the priest has the opportunity to go to Orthodox openly, including via the media. In 1990, the year he became one of the founders of the Russian Bible society, and was also an active philanthropist.

September 9, 1990, on the way from home to the station, Archpriest Alexander Men was murdered with an axe in the back. This crime was never solved. The investigators believe that there were two people. One distracted the priest gave him the note, but then the second ran from behind and fired a shot.

At the place where blood was shed nevinnomiisky of the righteous, in 1995, a chapel of the beheading of John the Baptist. Three years later the chapel became the altar and the porch. The design of the chapel created chief architect of the Sergiev Posad district Zhuravlev. D. Ten years from the day of death of Archpriest Alexander men was laid of a new Church in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Designer Yuri Seregin, together with the architect Zhuravlev conceived pillarless cubic temple with one head on a light barrel. Cloistered vault has a cruciform shape with a centered cylindrical vaults. The outside facades are decorated with pilasters. On the West side of the Church above the main entrance is square in plan belfry, ringing for the first time, January 2004. In 2005, the Archimandrite Zinon finished work on the iconostasis for St. Sergius Church. September 9, 2010 the Church in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh was consecrated. Memorial at the spot of the murder of Alexander I became the symbol connecting past and present.