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leaders also have a positive orienta- tion toward socialism. 444 Soviet Evangelicals Since World War Il 16. Ibid. 17. Ibid., p. 53. 18. A total of 12 were released early; the other 48 were due for release anyway. Cf. RCL IHU, 1-3, 1975, pp. 14-15. 19. Delegates later asked A. I. Mitskevich to repeat the few financial totals he actually had reported: Total income in 1971—523,000 rubles; 1972—558,000; 19783—563,000. For travel they had spent 139,000 rubles per year, and had spent 164,000 for the correspondence course. (Author's congress notes. ) 20. Keston files, February 1975. The letter, since it was unsigned, did not ap- pear to exert any influence, but is a useful indication of the attitudes of some persons in the Moscow congregation. 21. Le, A. M. Bychkov, P. K. Shatrov, V. S. Glukhovski, K. P. Borodinov, S. P. Fadiukhin, and M. P. Chernopiatov. 22. Le, P. K. Shatrov, Jacob Fast, Jacob K. Dukhonchenko, I. S. Gnida. Reelected were: A. E. Klimenko, A. M. Bychkov, M. Ia. Zhidkov, M. P. Chernopiatov, A. I. Mitskevich, and S. P. Fadiukhin. 23. Between 1974 and 1979, 37 congregations had been closed due to urbani- zation, affecting 450 members. 24, Statistics given in manuscript copy of the general secretary's report to the Congress. In the following pages I will be relying on it as well as on my own notes as observer. The official report appeared in BV 1-2/80. 25. BV, 4/79, pp. 70-72. Andrei Klimenko was elected senior presbyter; V. E. Logvinenko, Jacob Fast, and Peter K. Shatrov were elected deputy senior presbyters. The presbyter council consisted of N. I. Dolmatov (Rostov), M. M. Kon’shin (Volga region), V. A. Mitskevich (Kaluga and Smolensk), V. F. Fedichkin (Moscow region), P. P. Ens (Orenburg presbyter). Candidate members are: V. D. Erisov (Stavropol), Iu. A. Mokainchae (E. Siberia and Far East) and S. V. Iashin (presbyter in Surazh, near Briansk). 26. They are: RSFSR, Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldavia, Latvia, Estonia, Cau- casus, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, and Central Asia. 27. They were: K. S. Sedlitskii (Moldavia), V. A. Mitskevich (Kalinin), N. Z. Kvirikashvili (Trans Caucasus), A. A. Lysiuk (Chernovitsy), Iu. A. Maksimchuk (ass't SP for E. Siberia and Far East), F.-P. Virts (asst SP for Kazakhstan), V. I. Bukatyi (Belorussia), Ia. E. Tervits (Latvia), K. A. Sipko (Omsk), V. L. Kibenko (Sumy), N. G. Tsuman (Dnepropetrovsk), F. D. Starukhin (Kharkov), A. P. Mamalat (Kirovograd), V. D, Erisov (Stavropol), A. G. Brynza (Zaporozh’e), V. A. Shul’ts (asst SP for Kazakhstan), T. F. Kviring (Central Asia), A. F. Burlakavov (ass’t for Kazakhstan), Sergei I. Nikolaev (North West). 28. BV, 1/72, p. 80. 29. BV, 4/78, p. 36. 80. AS 770, pp. 125-6. 31. Based on author’s personal notes from the congress. 32. Based on author's notes, figures checked with tape recording. Total income for 1974-79 had been 4,189,848 Fhe total expenditures were 3,876,320 rubles. 33. Se