Word: yaroslavl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orthodox clergy promptly pressed their advantage under the new Constitution by opening a public campaign demanding that divine service be resumed in all church structures in Georgia which have not yet actually been destroyed. The Orthodox bishops, priests and delegates of Orthodox believers from the vicinity of Tver, Yaroslavl and Ivanovo-Voznesensk dared and succeeded in holding without molestation from the Secret Police an assembly to decide the electoral policies of the Church. It became a question whether religious groups should attempt to nominate for election to the Supreme Soviet priests, bishops, or even His Holiness the Metropolitan Sergius...
Meanwhile last week the general subject of Soviet church-going was angrily aired at a Communist gathering in Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow. Speakers cited Soviet statistics to prove that still regular churchgoers in Russia today are: 12% of young peasant women and 1% of young peasant men; 26% of middle-aged peasant women and 3% of their men; 48% of elderly peasant women and 14% of their men. Because of the time these people "waste" in church, declared Communist zealots at Yaroslavl, the Soviet harvest for 1936 was 35% less than it would have been if they had worked during...