History of religious organizations of Karaganda region in the mid-60s of the XX century

Abstract

The article studies the development of religious organizations in Central Kazakhstan in the 60s of the XX century. As a result of a number of concessions from the authorities, religious organizations became more active in the region. Among believers there were phenomena that until that time had not been possible: they wrote open collective letters with conditions, demanded religious freedom. The studied period of «scientific atheism» became a stage of the authorities ' attempts to use the achievements of science in the fight against religious organizations in order to form the Soviet people atheists. However, archival documents proved the opposite, that the propaganda work carried out among the population did not bring the results expected by the Soviet authorities.