The destruction of Orthodox churches and monuments in the USSR (1927-1932)

People standing on the roof of the temple, pulling a rope tied to one of the domes, dome reeling.

A man standing on the roof of the church, cross cut away from the dome.

The soldiers carried out of the temple icons and church utensils, dump it at the wall.

Icons underlying chest wall.

People clean area near the entrance to the temple, take out the trash on a stretcher.

Setting a red flag on the dome of the temple.

Demolition of the domes of the Simonov Monastery in Moscow in the early 1930s.

The destruction of the monastery buildings.

People passed along the chain surviving bricks for future use.

Interior view of one of the destroyed temples, panorama of the destroyed monastery.

Analysis of the debris at the site of the monastery, are members of the commission.

General view of the destroyed monastery, people dismantled the bricks for future construction.

General view of the Sukharev Tower.

A sign of the Moscow municipal museum in the tower building.

Cars on a Moscow street.

Figure Red Gate in Moscow.

A general view of Red Gate shortly before the demolition in 1927.

Working Parses Red Gate.

Resetting down stone blocks.

General view of the demolished Red Gate.

Pass the anti-religious ski run, one of the audience plays the accordion.

The slogan on the chest of one of the rally participants.

Opening the shrine with the relics Mitrofanii Voronezh in Mitrophanievskoye Annunciation monastery in January 1930.

Activist gets out of the covers cancers, shows them gathered people, the faces of people.

Woman standing next to the activists, delivers a speech.

People sit on a tree branch.

Kind of the anti-religious meeting in Voronezh.

Types of shopping malls in Okhotny Ryad in the 1910s.

The street passing tram.

People sit in a tram car.

He drives a car.

Panorama Theater Square.

View of the Church of the Vladimir Mother of God with the Nicholas Gate in Moscow.

Panorama of Red Square with the Church of the Kazan Mother of God, the Iberian chapel and a building of the Historical Museum.

The tram goes past St.

Basil's Cathedral.

Panorama of Moscow, a general view of Christ the Savior, the temple pieces of jewelry, sculptures and bas-reliefs.

The frescoes and the texts of the prayers on the walls inside the temple.

Installing a fence around the church in the summer of 1931.

Autopsy church circles for donations.

Bringing the frescoes from the walls of the temple.

Removing icons.

The evaluator inspects confiscated church utensils, preparation of inventory items.

Withdrawal of the sacred vestments and other ecclesiastical vestments.

General view of the altar of the temple of Christ the Savior.

The explosion and the destruction of the Temple of Christ the Savior, 5 December 1931.

The sculptures on the walls of the temple, tied with ropes.

Dismantling sculptures.

The soldiers dismantled rubble at the site of the temple.

Panorama temple ruins (above), analysis of debris.

View the ruins of the Temple of Christ the Savior from the Moskva River in the spring of 1932.