This article discusses the main areas of Orthodox religious organizations activities with youth in the Sverdlovsk region, as well as mechanisms for attracting young people and ways to organize this activity. Particular attention is paid to taking part in social projects that are not directly related to the faith spread, worship. Quantitative grant applications analysis, traditional document analysis and in-depth interviews methods were used. Based on the Presidential Grants Fund website study, the receiving grants frequency by Orthodox organizations was calculated and compared with the same indicator for other organizations. Further, the interaction of the Russian Orthodox Church with youth is analyzed within the youth departments’ activities of the dioceses included in the Yekaterinburg Metropolis, formed in the Sverdlovsk region: Alapaevsk, Yekaterinburg, Kamensk, Nizhny Tagil and Serov. The same directions are determined and features. For an in-depth analysis, the results of interviews conducted by the author with Orthodox religious organizations representatives implementing projects with the young people participation in the Sverdlovsk region are presented. The interviews showed differences not only in the content of work with youth, but also in approaches to this work.