Православие на территории Калининградской области в период запрета (1945–1985 гг.)

In the period from 1945 to 1951 on the territory of Kaliningrad region there was a complete change of population. German citizens were deported. The region was settled by immigrants from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania. 94 percent of migrants belonged to the peoples, traditionally confessed the Orthodox. For the described period of the initiative group of Orthodox believers tried to get an official registration of the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church. Local party and Soviet authorities were able to prevent the creation in the Kaliningrad region is not a single Orthodox parish. Believers were forced to conduct services apartments, to visit the temples in Lithuania, to invite Orthodox priests from Lithuania to convert req. This situation persisted until 1985, when in Kaliningrad, finally opened the first Orthodox Church.