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Providing Scriptures for the Russian-speaking people since 1944

Our Past... Russian Bible Society is the oldest established mission to the part of the world now called the Commonwealth of Independent States. Russian Bible Society was first founded in 1812 during a time when the iron-handed church state relationship was loosened somewhat. For fourteen years the Society prospered with the cooperation of Czar Alexander I and under the leadership of Prince Galatsin. A good Russian translation of the New Testament was printed. There is no doubt that God used this period to spread His Word in the language of the Russian people, which produced an evangelical revival in the land. However, for fear of an evangelical Reformation in the Orthodox Church, the Orthodox clergy stirred up opposition against the Bible Society. In 1826 the Russian Bible Society was disbanded. Russian Bible Society was brought to new life in 1944, under the direction of Pastor Basil Malof (also known as William Felter). Pastor Malof was converted at 15 years of age in the little Baptist assembly that met in his father’s house. He was baptized with other converts after midnight for fear of persecution and imprisonment. Shortly after this he was called to preach and gave his first sermon at the age of sixteen. He was trained at Spurgeon’s Pastors College in London, England, as there were no evangelical training schools in Russia. In 1907 he graduated with honors and returned to Russia with this conviction: “If John Knox could claim all Scotland for Church, why can I not claim all Russia for Christ?” Our Purpose... The Russian Bible Society is committed to giving the pure Word of God to various people groups in the Commonwealth of Independent States. It is our goal at the Russian Bible Society to provide the New Testament for all the non-Slavic languages which have one million or more speakers and which do not yet have a New Testament. There are nineteen groups of this size in the Commonwealth of Independent States. The opportunities are at hand. Bibles are entering the largest country in the world after years of rejection and confiscation by the Communist authorities. Never in the history of Marxist control has there been such openness. We are committed to using this open door to its fullest possibility and to doing our very best to provide the Word of God for all the people of the former USSR. We believe that the Living God is using us along with others as an instrument in seeing many “redeemed...to God by thy blood out of every KINDRED, and TONGUE, and PEOPLE, and NATION.”