a particularly strong impression upon one young Evenk man who had grown up in Tura. He recounted how they gave out free Bibles printed in Russian and how everyone was extremely friendly. An Evenk educator also remarked that she was impressed that the missionaries took an interest in translating the Bible into Evenk; the Evangelists even approached her about possibly working on this project.32
In the fall of 1993, people continued to discuss the missionaries’ summer visits, but by November the focus turned to a small group of Turintsy who decided to form a Russian Orthodox community. Although the local administration had not granted a permit for the group to meet, about forty interested people gathered in the House of Culture on one chilly evening in November. The majority of the group were Russian women, although there were a few elderly men and Evenk women. Most attendees sat dressed in fur hats and boots, shivering in the freezing, cavernous cement building. A radio correspondent taped the discussion about establishing the first church ever to exist in Tura. The primary organizer of the gathering requested ten names of people for a petition that would provide justification for the Russian Orthodox Archdiocese in Krasnoiarsk to support the fledgling group. The evening concluded with a conflict between the organizers and the director of the House of Culture. The director became concerned about repercussions from the town administration and claimed that a nongovernmental organization, the church group, could not legally meet in a government building. Despite this tension, the group continued to meet once a week and even held Easter services in the town administration’s office building.33 By the spring of 1994, there was also a Baptist group meeting weekly in a Tura apartment.
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