Persistent resistance of old believers of Starodub’ye and Vetka to violent change by the organs of Soviet power of the traditional cultural and everyday life of the population (1920s-1930s)

The article is devoted to the actual problem of preservation of traditional cultural and everyday life of the Russian old believers of the ancient spiritual centers of Starodub’ye and Vetka in the period 1920-1930, despite the ideological influence and repressions by the Soviet authorities. Researchers in other regions of compact residence of old believers, for example, in the Urals, Siberia, Eastern Europe, also pay attention to this problem. The topic developed by the authors has not been previously studied by both domestic and foreign scientists. In part, the authors published some aspects of this problem earlier.