title: ARCHIVAL SOURCES ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION OF ORTHODOX CHURCHES IN THE SETTLEMENTS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN AZOV REGION IN THE 19TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURIES
abstract: The purpose of the article is to consider, on the example of Berdyansk and Melitopol districts, Tavricheskaya guberniya, one of the little-studied aspects of the cultural life of the Orthodox population in the 19th – early 20th centuries, associated with church construction in their settlements. The authors set themselves the task, on specific examples, to trace the main features and features of this process. Church building occupied a prominent place in the inner life of local communities, as e
journal: South Archive (Historical Sciences)