INTRODUCTION OF SOCIALIST NON-RELIGIOUS RITES IN THE SOUTH OF WESTERN SIBERIA IN THE 1960S – EARLY 1980S

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the introduction of civil rites by Soviet authorities as an alternative to religious rites. The author presents statistical data on non-religious rites performed in the Altai territory and in the Novosibirsk region in the 1960s and early 1980s. First of all, the following socialist holidays will be considered: solemn registration of marriage and newborns, seeing off the Russian winter, etc. In the article, the author comes to the conclusion that, despite the atheistic propaganda, the introduction of non-religious civil rites did not succeed in displacing religious rites from the life of believers.