Elena Kondrashina Women in the Communal Life of the Protestant Churches in the Soviet Union (1945 - 1991) Elena Kondrashina - Secretary of Sergey Riakhovsky, Leading Bishop of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals), Moscow, Russia, elenakondrashina@gmail.com The article deals with the roles of women in the Protestant communities in the post-war Soviet Union. It contributes to a still understudied field of gender studies related to the Protestant churches of the Soviet period. The study draws upon the archival materials of the Fund of the Office of religious cults and then the Office of religious affairs of Moscow and Moscow region. Keywords: Protestantism, community, women in church, Soviet religious policy, Adventism, evangelical Christians, Baptists, Pentecostals. The study of the problems of women's religiosity in modern Russian science is at an early stage and is still overshadowed by other socio-cultural and political aspects of the topic 1. At the same time, state and church archives store a significant number of documents containing valuable information on this and related topics. 1. See, for example, works on the migration and ethno-cultural aspect of Protestantism: Weil3, Lothar (Hg.). Russlanddeutsche Migration und evangelische Kirchen. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013; Savin A. I. Ethnoconfession in the Soviet State: Mennonites of Siberia in the 1920-1980s; annotated list of archival documents and materials; selected documents. Novosibirsk (et al.): SB RAS, Posokh Publ., 2006. Among the works on women's religiosity, we can mention the following: Belyakova E. V., Belyakova N. A., Yemchenko E. B. Woman in Orthodoxy. Church Law and Russian Practice, Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2011; Koval T. B., Kotovskaya M. G. Gender, Culture, Religion (tradition and modernity), Moscow: Severoprint, 2006. page 151problems that, however, have been poorly investigated so far2. These materials require extensive and detailed study. This article is onl ... Read more