RELIGION IN RUSSIA
SUPPRESSIVE CAMPAIGN. , i TOWNS BEING RENAMED. {United Preas Association:) _ • {By Electric. Telegraph—Copyrlgbt.) •■--■;■ RIGA, March 31. (Received' April 1, at 8 p.m.) The Soviet is engaged in altering place names with "a religious flavour. The towns Serijieve and Bogorousk, the former recalling Saint Sergius and the latter meaning "Our Lady a Town," have been renamed Sargosk aha Noginsk, in honour of Communist celebrities. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20991, 2 April 1930, Page 9
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