Evangelical Christians-Baptists in the USSR (1970)

The film tells about the life of Baptists in the USSR, their foreign connections, and the work of the All-Union Congress of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, which took place in Moscow.

Main content: General Secretary of the All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists in the USSR A. V. Karev tells (synchronously) about the history of the Baptist brotherhood.

Kharkov - streets, rooftops (shot from above).

Festive service in the Kharkov community on the occasion of the Nativity of Christ: faces of the worshipers, the choir singing.

The service is conducted by presbyter brother Shapovalov (synchronized).

Bible page.

Cartoon - a fragment of a painting by P. Veronese.

Shapovalov speaks (synchronized).

Parishioners listen, the choir sings.

Moscow, the Kremlin, the streets of Moscow.

Moscow Baptist Church.

Sign "All-Union Council.

Moscow Community of Evangelical Christians-Baptists".

Meeting of the Presidium of the Council.

In the presidium are Ivanov, Timchenko, Karev, Mitskevich.

Pages of the magazine "Brotherly Herald".

Collection of "Spiritual Songs", the Bible.

Examination at the Bible courses - examiners ask questions, course participants answer (synchronized) The organ plays, the choir sings.

The ceremony of ordination.

Brother Krieger reads a prayer (synchronized), listeners.

Ordination to the presbyter.

Brother Krieger reads a prayer (synchronized).

Brother Krieger is ordained to the presbyter (in German).

The Uzbek village of Dzhetysay, a prayer house of the German Mennonites, who are part of the Church of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, people come out of the house.

A motorcyclist and a bicycle drive up to the house.

A sign in German.

Sunday service of the German Mennonites, with the congregation listening.

Main content - Leningrad.

St.

Isaac's Cathedral, a city street, embankment, Anichkov Bridge, Piskarevskoye Cemetery, fragments of monuments at Piskarevskoye Cemetery.

Leningrad Baptist Church.

Choir and conductor sing.

Ceremony of the Breaking of Bread.

Prayers in the church.

Brother Fadyukhin reads a prayer (synchronously), believers listen.

Ceremony with a cup of wine - women and men drink from the cup, worshipers, choir sings (synchronously).

Meeting of the Council of the Presidium of Evangelical Christians-Baptists.

In the presidium are members of the Council: Karev, Ivanov, Mitskevich, Zhitkov, Timchenko, Krieger.

Karev speaks, members of the Council listen.

Congress of Evangelical Christians-Baptists in Moscow.

Listeners in the congress hall.

Brother Ivanov speaks from the rostrum (synchronously).

Organ plays, choir sings (synchronously).

Ivanov and Perepelyuk (synchronously) speaking from the rostrum.

Listeners in the hall.

The following are speaking at the congress: Presbyter of the Moscow Church M. Zhitkov, Secretary General of the European Baptist Federation Brother Gulding, Chairman of the Baptist Council of Hungary Brother Lashkovsky, member of the Union of Baptists of Poland Brother Stankevich, member of the United Evangelical Church in Poland Brother Krakiewicz, representative of the Union of Baptists of the GDR Brother Furman, representative of the Moscow community of Seventh-day Adventists Brother Lekarenko.

The participants of the congress send a telegram of gratitude to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR A. N. Kosygin to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union A. N. Kosygin.

Karev speaking (synchronously).

Listeners and taking notes in the congress hall.

Illustrative shots - nuns in the mountains, a protest demonstration (?), hands holding a cross on a chain, people praying in an Orthodox church, candles burning, an obelisk to the fallen (?), clouds in the mountains, a bell.

Main content - Session of the Congress of Evangelical Christians-Baptists.

Brother Timchenko speaks (synchronously).

Listeners in the hall.

Brother Maiboroda (synchronously), Brother Ivanov speak.

Listeners in the hall.

The choir sings, conductor with the choir, the organ plays.

Tallinn Church of Christians-Baptists, believers, the presbyter of the church Brother O. Tärk speaks, believers listen.

Church.

Presbyter of Estonian Christians-Baptists O. Olvik speaks (synchronously).

Believers listen.

Organist, conductor, choir sings.

Faces of believers.

A delegation of Baptists and Mennonites from the USA and Canada inspect the territory of the Kremlin.

Divine service, baptismal rite.

Brother Bychkov speaks (synchronously).

The choir sings, believers watch.

Baptismal rite.

Brother Zhitkov speaks (synchronously).

Believers watch.