%0 Journal Article
%T Odessa branch of  the True Orthodox Church  1935: Tragic Scenario of the Soviet Secret Service
%A Nikolay I. Mikhaylutsa
%J Bylye Gody
%D 2012
%I Sochi State University
%X The article is concerned with the bolshevists¡¯ violence against adepts of ¡°the True Orthodox Church¡± in Odessa in the middle 30s of the XX century. The article is focused on the case, framed up in January, 1935 by local authorities of NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) against ¡°Odessa branch of ¡°the True Orthodox Church¡±. Investigator chose monk-pilgrim Leonid Vasilevich Salkov as the founder and ideological instigator of the branch. Besides, F.S. Pospelov, V.I. Ivanov, G.I. Balukhatin and S.Ya. Kokh were arrested in January, 1935 pursuant to the decrees by Odessa Oblast Authority of NKVD and Odessa Oblast Attorney Office. Investigation didn¡¯t manage to collect any material evidence, but almost all the interrogated, pressed by the NKVD investigators confessed the participation in illegal branch of ¡°the True Orthodox Church¡±, except former secretary of Odessa Diocesan Authority F.S. Pospelov. Yet, L. Salkov was sentenced to 5 years in labour camps, V. Ivanov and G. Balakhutin to 3 years in labour camps and S. Kokh and F. Pospelov to 3 years of exile by the decision of the special council of NKVD of the USSR d.d. 13 September, 1935.The article considers the factors, which were crucial in framing up of ¡°the True Orthodox Church case¡±, shows the geography of Odessa branch relationship with other regions of the country, methods and techniques, used by officers of NKVD authorities to frame up the cases of the investigated persons, gravamen and consequences of the repressions of ¡°Odessa branch of ¡°the True Orthodox Church¡± participants.
%K Bolshevists¡¯ violence
%K repressions
%K Odessa
%K ¡°the True Orthodox Church¡±.
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