The clergy and parishes of the Russian orthodox church in the Zauralye in 1919-1929

The article discusses the question of the status of Orthodox parishes and clergy of the Zauralye since the implementation of the decree of the Soviet government «the separation of Church from state and school from Church» in 1919 and before acceptance by Presidium of the Central Executive Committee on 8 April 1929 decree «On religious associations», which gave way to the forcible ousting of religion from public life. The aim of this work is to assess the material situation of the clergy and parishes, the amount of financial and moral support of the Church believers, the identification of the degree of influence of religion on the population in the Zauralye. The relevance of the study due to the fact that the identification and analysis of the facts of everyday life of the Orthodox world in the post-revolution period, contribute to the understanding of the depth of faith and the role of the Russian Orthodox Church for an average believer. It is shown that in the period when the state decided the «Church question» by strengthening the ideological struggle, the administrative burden, legal and financial restrictions, deprivation of several civil rights of the Orthodox Church in the region continued to exist only thanks to the efforts of the parishioners...