 Since 1990, it has been known for the Turetsky Choir Art Group.The chief Moscow rabbi up to 1938, Shmarya Yehuda Leib Medalia, born in Lithuania in 1872, started his rabbinical service in Tula, then a small provincial town about 100 miles from Moscow, and later moved to serve a much larger and more vibrant Jewish community in the Belorussian city of Vitebsk.By the time of revolution of 1917, the rabbi had six sons and five daughters.