The activities of the urban Orthodox parishes of the mining and processing Southern Urals in 1917–1928 in the documents of the archives of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust

Abstract

The article reviews the written sources of two large archives of the Chelyabinsk region, reflecting the activities of Orthodox parishes of large industrial settlements of the mining and processing Southern Urals during the years of revolutionary upheavals and the formation of Soviet power. The composition, features of the content, and information saturation of documents are revealed. Despite the limited information contained in the sources of the period under study, the documents described allow us to draw up an overall picture of the activities of Orthodox parishes.

Keywords

• russian orthodox church
• the great russian revolution
• the mining southern urals orthodox parish
• industrial centers
• written sources
• metric books
• clerical records