Click on the map thumbnails to view full-screen versions. A note about geography: Some place names in Russia changed during the Soviet era. Samara was renamed Kuybyshev in 1935 and reverted back to Samara in 1991. Other changes included Stavropol (became Tolyatti), Nikolaevsk (became Pugachev), and Simbirsk (became Ulyanovsk), all of which retain their Soviet-era…
Click on the map thumbnails to view full-screen versions. A note about geography: Some place names in Russia changed during the Soviet era. Samara was renamed Kuybyshev in 1935 and reverted back to Samara in 1991. Other changes included Stavropol (became Tolyatti), Nikolaevsk (became Pugachev), and Simbirsk (became Ulyanovsk), all of which retain their Soviet-era…
The roofed cross with a single bar appears to be a distinctive Samara “Mormon” symbol. However, a triple-bar roofed cross is simply a stylistic variation on Russian Orthodox crosses. From Russian Mormonism From Russian Mormonism Browning and Eliason spoke with two sextons and the cemetery director at Mekhzavod, who told the American researchers that the…
The roofed cross with a single bar appears to be a distinctive Samara “Mormon” symbol. However, a triple-bar roofed cross is simply a stylistic variation on Russian Orthodox crosses. Browning and Eliason spoke with two sextons and the cemetery director at Mekhzavod, who told the American researchers that the peaked cross lacking the three Orthodox…
“Russian Mormonism: Geographic and Historical Foundations” (Adobe PDF). This paper includes my research findings from a trip sponsored by Brigham Young University and Gary Browning, conducted in May 2001. This paper makes extensive use of primary Orthodox sources and first-hand accounts of Samara Mormon communities in the 1800’s, sourced from the Samara Oblast archives.
