The latest Pentecostal documents (see pp. 25-30 for examples) from the USSR come from an apparently new source, the Information Service of the Pentecostal Movement. We have yet to see whether it will appear regularly. The first two (and so far only) bulletins tell of events in the Kaluga region of Central Russia where virtually nothing was known about Pentecostal activity. They also give us details of a leader known frofu another document and from the Soviet press Ivan Petrovich Fedotov. The Pentecostal movement began in Russia just before the First World War and grew considerably in the 1920S, particularly in the Soviet Ukraine, and in the Baltic republics, Eastern Poland and Moldavia, which were all incorporated into the USSR in 1939-44. Most Pentecostals took the name Christians of Evangelical Faith. Within the USSR they shared in the general suffering of the 193,os, but in 1945, unlike most denominations, they were unable to obtain legal registration and were forced to seek a union with the Evangelical Christians and Baptists (ECB). An agreement was reached in August 1945 enabling Pentecostals to register, though normally at the expense of their independence as local congregations which had to amalgamate. Many Pentecostals are dissatisfied with this arrangement and periodically re-establish independent congregations. This means that a varying proportion of Pentecostals fall under the ECB label; there is a constant coming and going which makes it impossible to state their number, but, although they are widespread, one can say that in most districts they are not nearly so numerous as the Evangelical Christians and· Baptists. Hitherto Pentecostal documents have been comparatively rare, far fewer than the appeals, letters and other documents from the Initsiativniki Baptists. Those registered by RCL so far come from three sources only, and of these nine out of 11 (DS/1973/P/1 and DS/1974/P/I-8, listed in RCL Vol. 2, Nos. 3 & 6) emanate from the congregations at Chernogorsk (Krasnoyarsk province, Siberia) and Nakhodka (Soviet Far East), which, although separated from one another by thousands of kilometres, are together writing appeals to the Soviet government for permission to emigrate and to world public opinion for help in achieving this. This same group (then all resident in Chernogorsk) turned in January 1963 to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for help in emigrating from the USSR after