THE FATE OF THE INKERMAN MONASTERY IN THE 1920S IN THE ARCHIVAL SOURCES

Abstract

The article considers the reflection in the documents of the State Institution “Archive of the city of Sevastopol» of the history of the Inkerman Monastery (now St. Klimentovsky Monastery) in the 1920s. It is established that this period in its history was one of the most difficult. By the end of the 1920s. The Inkerman Monastery was liquidated in connection with the course of the atheist state. The process of its liquidation can be described as “creeping liquidation». The brethren of the monastery went from a partial permission to continue their ministry to the final closure of the churches. Most of the buildings of the monastery after its abolition were adapted for the needs of the community of the village of Inkerman. The analysis of the documents showed that they are fragmentary, at the same time; they make it possible to understand the processes that took place with the cultural structures of the Sevastopol region in the 1920s. They contain information about churches.

Keywords

• monastery of inkerman
• the closure of churches
• the crimea
• the crimea ec