The struggle against religion in the USSR (1929)

The engineers are preparing the dynamite charges to blow up the walls of the Orthodox Church in Nizhny Novgorod.

General view of the temple and the top of the bell tower.

The laying of charges in holes in the walls of the temple.

Sapper turns the handle of the blasting machine.

Explosion in several places inside the walls of the temple bell falls from the blast.

Blasted ruins of the temple.

Soldiers and workers from the rubble.

The soldier knocks the six-pointed star from the top of a synagogue in Samara.

The people in the synagogue removed the curtain with cabalistic symbols, open the wardrobe and take out the Torah scrolls, unfold one of them.

The interior of the synagogue.

The artist gets the words "House of culture.

Of the Comintern" at the entrance to the synagogue.

Hoist the red banner over the building of the former synagogue.