Interview with Bishop of the Russian United Union of Christians of the Evangelical Faith Sergey Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky, May 28, 2020

Abstract

The article provides a text transcript of an interview taken in May 2020 with the bishop of the Russian United Union of Christians of the Evangelical Faith, Sergei Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky. The interview was conducted in order to collect source material for research on the topic “The activities of Protestant communities in Moscow in the 1970s and 1980s.” The introductory article descries the specifics of the interview as a historical source, examines the features and structure of the narrative that affect the content of the source and are characteristic of Pentecostals and Baptists of the USSR. The assessment of the historical context in which the interview was conducted is given; the place that such a document can take in the source database of research on Protestantism of the USSR is proposed.