Freedom of conscience. On the situation of religions in the USSR (1982)

Landscape of central, river - LS.

Birch Grove - MS.

The Kremlin wall, people go to the grave of the Unknown Soldier - LS., PNRM.; Lay flowers at the Tomb - MS.

Eternal flame burns - CU.

Moscow - LS., PNRM.

One of the streets of the capital - MS., PNRM.

Collection of the World Conference of religious leaders - LS., MS., CU., PNRM.

Said the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Pimen - LS.

By religious leaders, the participants listened to - MS., CU.

Embankment of the Moscow River - MS.

Metro bridge across the Moscow River - MS., Departure.

Kalinin Avenue - LS., PNRM.

The central streets of Moscow - LS.

Square in front of the Bolshoi Theater - MS.

The artist works on location - MS.

The picture on the easel - CU.

Churches, cathedrals - LS., MS., CU., PNRM.

Believers to worship in the Orthodox Church (background prayer, choir) - LS., MS., CU.

Worship on the day of the Holy Trinity - LS., MS.

Church altar - LS., PNRM.

Church, minaret, other ancient monuments of Samarkand - LS., CU., PNRM.

People in the old narrow streets of Samarkand - MS.

Ancient arch, decorated with mosaics - CU., PNRM.

Muslim faithful in the holy place in the Shah-i-Zinda - LS., PNRM.

Children at the monument of the Uzbek poet Alisher Navoi - LS., PNRM.

People on the streets of Tashkent - LS., MS., PNRM.

Ancient mosque in Tashkent - LS.

From the mosque muezzin call the faithful to prayer (in Uzbek) - MS., LS.

Muslims pray in the mosque - CU., LS., PNRM.

Arch over the entrance to the mosque - CU.

Believers out of the mosque after the prayer - MS.

People on the streets of Tashkent - MS.

Tashkent area - LS., Departure.

Fountain - CU.

Young people walk around the fountains - MS.

Street Mountains.

Ulan-Ude - LS.

People on the street - CU., MS.

Mature buryatka - CU.

Buddhist Temple - different., PNRM.

Settlement near a Buddhist temple - MS.

Believers-buryatka twist prayer wheels - MS., LS.

People go to a Buddhist temple - MS., PNRM.

Buddhist Temple (inside view) - CU., PNRM.

Painting on the wall of the temple - CU.

Pray for believers - LS.

A sculpture of Buddha in the temple - MS., CU.

A priest at the altar rings the bell, another servant to the drum beats - CU., MS.

Clerics played trumpet - MS., LS., PNRM.

The old man praying - CU.

Buddhist temple altar - CU.

Near the temple the ritual exorcism - MS., CU., LS.

Sunset over the forest - LS.

CU.ysha Buddhist temple - CU.

Prayer House of Evangelical Christians-Baptists in Moscow - LS., PNRM.

Baptists listen to the preacher - LS., CU., PNRM.

Preacher says (synchronously) - CU., LS.

Perform the ritual of "CU.escheniya by faith» - MS., LS., PNRM.

Look present at the ceremony CU.escheniya - MS., CU., PNRM.

Baptists congratulate passed "an act of faith CU.escheniya» - LS., PNRM.

Service in the Moscow Choral Synagogue - MS., LS., PNRM. (Background singing solo and chorus).

Removal of the sacred relics on the occasion of Passover - different., PNRM.

Rabbi - CU.

In the Moscow Choral Synagogue - LS., PNRM.

Sacred relics synagogue - CU.

Tallinn - LS.

People on the streets of Tallinn, at the flower stall - LS., CU., MS.

Tulips - CU.

Dome Church in Tallinn - MS., LS.

Crucifix at the altar - MS.

Lutheran service in the Dome Church - LS. (Serves as a background chorus in Estonian).

Church members - MS.

Sculptural decoration of the cathedral - CU.

Sacred relic of the church - CU.

Orthodox Assumption Convent in Pyuhtitse (near Tallinn) - LS.

The monastery church - CU.

Nuns clean the snow in the courtyard of the monastery, put wood in the woodpile - MS., LS., PNRM.

Nun chopping wood - MS.

Nuns collecting water from a water bear - MS., PNRM.

The nuns used to bake bread, make communion bread dough, sew clothes - LS., PNRM.

Hands of the nuns sewing, hand embroidery - CU.

Nuns paint icons - LS., MS.

CU.aski and hands on the table - CU.

Lamp is lit before the crucifixion - CU.

Nuns pray in the Abbot Church - MS., PNRM.

CU.est on the wall in the church - CU.

Assumption Convent - LS.

Selling traditional "willows" in the market in Vilnius (sold per day educator Casimir Catholic Church canonized as a saint) - LS., MS., CU., PNRM.

Flowers around the image of St.

Casimir - CU., PNRM.

Altar of the Catholic Cathedral - CU.

Preach in the cathedral (simultaneously in Polish).

People listen to the sermon - MS., LS., PNRM.

Sculpture inside the cathedral - CU., MS.

Flowers in front of a crucifix - CU.

Women sing a prayer - hands holding a prayer book - CU.

The Catholic Cathedral of children sing in traditional dress - CU., PNRM.

Image of St.

Casimir - CU.

People come out of the Catholic Cathedral - LS., PNRM.

Vilnius - LS.

Tbilisi - LS., PNRM.

Georgia Street - LS.

People on the street - MS.

Cathedral - CU.

A woman prays in front of the cathedral - MS.

Old Cathedral in Tbilisi - LS.

The walls - CU.

Construction of the new church in Batumi (replacing burnt wooden) - LS., MS., CU.

Art restorer working inside the church (in Tbilisi) - CU., PNRM.

Wall paintings in the temple - LS., PNRM.

Classes at the Georgian Orthodox Seminary - MS., LS.

The teacher and the students in the classroom - CU.

Image of Saint - CU., PNRM.

Church of St.

David's in Georgia - MS., Hitting.

The service in the church - MS., PNRM.

The priest says a prayer (synchronously in Georgian) - CU.

Praying woman - CU.

Icon - CU.

Sioni Cathedral on Georgia - LS., Hitting.

Sunday liturgy is the church Catholicos - Patriarch of all Georgia, Ilia II - MS., CU.

Pray for believers - MS.

The icon of Saint Nino - CU.

Girl puts a candle in front of the icon - CU., PNRM.

Landscape of Georgia - LS., PNRM.

Ancient Muheta - CU.

The molding on the wall of the temple - CU.

People in the church - LS., PNRM.

Wedding bride and groom - CU., PNRM.

The priest blesses the newlyweds, a prayer (synchronously in Georgian) - CU., PNRM.

Looking girl - CU., PNRM.

The priest wears a crown on the bride and groom, communion young - CU.

Smiling woman - CU.

The bride and groom kissing - CU.

Galloping horseman - LS., CU., PNRM.

Georgians in national costumes - MS., PNRM.

The bride and groom are under the crossed daggers - CU.

Georgians hit on daggers dagger - CU.

Smiling couple - CU.

Old Georgians holding horn with wine, congratulates young - CU.

Lake Sevan - LS.

Ancient temple - MS.

Wall of the temple - CU.

Molding and a wall - CU.

Temple Echmiadzin - the residence of the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians - LS., MS.

Said Catholicos Vazgen I - MS., CU.

Clergy listen - LS., CU.

Armenian iconography - LS., PNRM.

Gifts of the faithful Armenians gathered in Echmiadzin, the letters of the Armenian alphabet in gold, gold CU.est with precious stones - CU., PNRM.

Catholicos Vazgen I, and clergy to enter the church - LS., CU.

Service of the Armenian Church - LS., PNRM.

Young priests hold hat Vazgen I; Vazgen I was kneeling - CU. (Background singer and choir singing in Armenian).

Women in the church - CU., PNRM.

Candles - MS.

Armenian village - LS.

Church in the village - MS.

CU.eschenie child - the priest takes the child, dips it into the font, and then takes the child out of the font and gives parents - CU.

Baby in mother's arms - CU., PNRM.

Sunset over Lake Sevan - LS.

Trinity-Sergius Lavra - LS. (Evening).

Inside view of the temple - LS., PNRM.

Iconostasis - CU., PNRM.

People in the square at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra - LS., Departure.

Patriarch Pimen passes accompanied priests - MS.

Prayer service at the Lavra Square Memorial Day Sergius - LS., CU., PNRM.

Icon Sergius Square - CU.

A priest kisses the icon - CU.

CU.estyatsya women and bow - CU.

Belfry - CU. (With motion, bottom).

May 9. The World Conference of religious leaders have a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the walls CU.emlevskoy - LS.

Eternal flame burns - MS., CU.

Metropolitan Pimen correcting ribbon on the wreath - MS.

Are priests - CU.

People walk near the wall CU.emlevskoy - LS. (Through the trees).

Children lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - CU., PNRM.

Children are running with a kite - LS., PNRM.

A kite in the air - MS.

Landscape MS.edney band - LS., PNRM.