The situation of religious communities in Western Siberia in the context of changes in the vector of Soviet confessional policy in the 1920s

The article examines the state-confessional policy of the Soviet state in Western Siberia in 1922-1929 by the example of the interaction of authorities with non-Orthodox religious communities. The work used documents little known in scientific circles of the authorized representatives of the Council for Religious Cults and the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, stored in the funds of the Historical Archive of the Omsk region and the State Archive of the Altai Territory. The results obtained allow us to conclude that consistent and systematic work in the field of state and confessional policy was not carried out in the territory under consideration during the 1920s.