Campaign to Close Churches in the Second Half of the 1920s and Early 1930s Based on Historical and Documentary Materials Egoryevsky District, Moscow Region

The article presents previously unpublished documents about the implementation of the campaign to close churches in the second half of the 20s and early 30s. XX century on the territory of the Yegoryevsky district of the Moscow region. The purpose of the article is an attempt to trace the process of implementing the national line of state-church relations on the territory of an ordinary provincial town and its office-working features at different stages of the Campaign. Having before my eyes a detailed picture of state-church relations in the twentieth century. on a national scale, its regional context often remains outside the field of historical research. At the same time, it is the analysis of the clerical component of state-church relations on the territory of individual provincial cities that gives us the opportunity to fully imagine the fate of many of our compatriots who completed their journey at the Butovo training ground in 1937. The article provides an analysis of the clerical process of closing individual parishes in territory of Yegoryevsk before and after 1929. Reconstructing them on the basis of previously unpublished documents from the Central State Archive of the Russian Federation, the author identified the main distinctive features of these processes, due to the gradual swing of the repressive pendulum.