Abstract:

The article shows the state policy towards the Catholic and other confessions in Vitebsk Region in the first post-war years. It was carried out by the Council for Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, whose structures operated at the republican and regional levels.

Keywords: Catholic Church, Protestant Church, Church, temple, monastery, monk, priest, catholic priest, religious community, Evangelical Baptist Christians, Pentecostals, Seventh-day Adventists, Muslim community, Jewish community, synagogue, Council for Religious Cults.