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hapter) has been culled from BV and other sources, I will cite my “Biographical Card File’ as source hereafter. 8. BV, 5-6/54, p. 138. 9. Mitskevich’s father was Lithuanian, his mother German. He first worked in Evangelical Christian circles, later with Baptists. Supra Chap. 6, Note 29. 10. BV, 8-4/56, p. 97. Cf. 2-3/53, p, 112. 11. BV, 6/66, p. 38. 12. BV, 2/70, p. 48. 270 Soviet Evangelicals Since World War Il 13. See above, Chap. 3. 14. BV, 2-8/5, pp. 110-11; cf. 1/49, p. 71. 15. BV, 1/75, p. 44. 16. Ibid., p. 64; Die Gemeinde, 23/74. 17. Puzin, Chairman of the Council for the Affairs of Religious Cults, in 1964 stated there were 126 unregistered ECB congregations comprising about 10,000 believers in the Ukraine (partial copy of speech at Keston Archives). 18. Kolarz, p. 832. Cf. A. T. Moskalenko, Piatidesiatniki (2nd ed.; Moscow, 1978), pp. 37-74. 19. AS 770, p. 52. 20. BV, 5-6/58, pp. 16-20. 21. BV, 6/77, pp. 55-58. L. S. Vladyko (Pentecostal) and A. M. Ketsko (1907- 1978) were elected as his assistants, Bukatyi was also elected to the AUCECB in 1974, from which Veliseichik had been eliminated in 1969. 22. BV, 6/64, pp. 62-66; cf. Durasoff, pp. 122-23, 163. 23, In 1948 there were 116 congregations with 9,934 members (BV, 3/48, p. 48), Although in 1963 the leadership had been reduced to Veliseichik (responsible ersonally for Minsk, Gomel’, Mogilev; and Vitebsk Oblasts), M. N. Germanovich Brest Oblast which had 48 percent of the congregations), and K. I. Sevashko (Grodno), by 1966 this had again increased to five senior presbyters through the ad- dition of A. P. Polovikov (Mogilev) and A. T. Pashkovskii (Gomel’). In 1974 there were six: Veliseichik, A. M. Ketsko, K. I. Sevashko, U. R. Shust, N. D. Snitko, and A. T. Pashkovskii (BV, 1/75, p. 46). 24, Prisoners’ lists; alumni photo in Nachrichten von den Feldern der Verfolgung, November-December, 1978, p. 2. 25. Interview data, Warsaw, May 4, 1977. 26. BV, 2/55, p. 54; finally retired as presbyter in Kishinev (BV, 6/77, p. 78). 27. BV, 4/63, p. 74; 6/68, p. 35. For a short time he was SP for the Caucasus. When Bychkov surveyed Moldavian history at the 1974 congress, he omitted As- takhov from the list of senior presbyters for Moldavia (BV, 1/75, p. 36)! 28. Ponomarchuk was succeeded by S. K. Malanchuk (1968-73) and K. S. Sedletskii (1973- ). 29, Identified in BV, 3/46, p. 38 as a leading worker in Moldavia. 80. A Danilov and D. Tabakaru, “Kto takie ‘initsiativniki’?’ Kommunist Moldavii, 12/67, p. 70. Gf. V. F. Gazhos, Evoliutsia religioznogo sektantstva v Moldavii (Kishinev, 1975), pp. 12-35. 81. An English-language dramatization with extensive translation of docu- ments is Myrna Grant, Vanya (Wheaton: Creation House, 1974). 82. As quoted in AS 770, p. 180. 33. BV, 3/54, p. 62; 2/56, p. 46; 5-6/60, pp. 76-82; AS 770, p. 180. In an Orgkomitet letter to the AUCECB (March 23, 1965) they complained that fo