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huk (Kazakhstan), N. A. ladykin (Kirgizia), 55. Umsiedler interview data. Vashchuk then moved to Kazan, where he is stil] the local presbyter (BV, 4/70, p. 77; 2/77, p. 76). 56. They had been: L. M. Karakai (1955-60?), E. M. Rudenko (1961), S. P. Fadiukhin (1962-64), I. S. Semchenko (1957-78, variously chairman of church council and presbyter, died 1973), A. S. Kolganov 1966- ?. B. N. Serin became . presbyter in 1977. M. M. Samotugin, who was senior presbyter of Central Asia 1967- 198 Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II 76, had lived in Tashkent since the war and held leading posts. A. T. Pen’kov, who had been the senior presbyter in 1947, reemerged in 1966 as one of three candidates for presbyter, losing to Kolganov; he became a deacon. 57. Klibanov & Mitrokhin, pp. 104-107. 58. AS 448. 59. Subsequently Peter Rumachik became the leader and CCECB member. The Dedovsk congregation was finally registered as an autonomous congregation in 1975 but in May 1978 the church was locked up by the authorities (CPR Bulletin, No. 54, pp. 24-36; No. 61, pp. 10-14). 60. Article 126 of the Soviet constitution of 1936, slightly changed in Article 51 of the 1977 constitution. 61. Its members were: A. F. Prokofiev, G. K. Kriuchkov, G. P. Vins, A. A. Shalashov (died 1963), and N. G. Baturin. 62. AS 770, pp. 34-36. 63. AS 785 (BL, 2-3/65). The letter itself has not become available. 64. Those excommunicated were (identification [SP=senior presbyter] and spelling corrections by the author); AUCECB council members Jacob Zhidkov, Alexander Karev, Ilia G. Ivanov, I. I. Motorin and A. L Mitskevich, G. M. Buzynin (SP for Penza and Middle Volga) and the longtime Moscow office official, briefly SP for the Kazan area, S. G. Shchepetov, were incorrectly identified as council ‘members. Others excommunicated were: A. L. Andreev (SP for Ukraine); P. A. Par- chevski (SP for Kharkov); N. N. Melnikov (Deputy SP for Ukraine); F. R. Astakhov (Assistant SP for Ukraine); K. S. Veliseichik (SP for Belorussia); N. N. Germanovich (Assistant SP for Belorussia); V. I. Ermolov (SP for Volgograd, Saratov and Ast- rakhan, earlier for Western Siberia); T. S. Kasaev (presbyter in Ordzhonikidze, Cau- casus); I. Ia. Tatarchenko (SP for Donets); A. V. Gaivoronski (SP for Voroshilov- grad); I. E. Egorov (SP for Krasnodarskii Krai); I. A. Evstratenko (SP for Rostov); R. R. Podgaiski (Sp for Stavropolskii Krai); D. D. Shapovalov (SP for Vinnitsa); B. A. Rusanov (SP for Caucasian Republics and N. Caucasus); K. L. Kalibabchuk (SP for Kherson); D. I. Ponomarchuk (SP for Moldavia); I. Ja. Kaliuzhnyi (SP for Cherkassy); E. N. Raevski (SP for Eastern Siberia and the Far Fast); and D. M. gt art \nebant SP for Cherkassy) (AS 770, pp. 38-41). 65. Ibid. 66. A. A. Shalashov was presbyter in Cheliabinsk (obituary in AS 770, pp. 126- 40). N. G. Baturin was presbyter in Shakhty near Rostov. A. F. Prokofiev, who fully supporte