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Amalia Galladzheva-Löbsack was an Adventist lay pastor in the Soviet Union. She and her husband, Aleksei Galladzhev, were pioneer workers in Georgia and Armenia. Both husband and wife were imprisoned during the times of massive religious repression in the Soviet Union. Amalia Galladzheva-Löbsack was executed on February 4, 1942. Amalia Galladzheva-Löbsack represents many women from the Soviet Union who served the Church in trying times and whose names we do not know.
Euro-Asia Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Women
Eastern Orthodox Georgia has been deeply influenced by Christianity in culture, history, and worldview. Adventist mission came into it a century and more ago, on the heels of older Protestant missions.
Euro-Asia Division Georgia Country (Based on SDA membership)
Georgian field, formerly Georgian Mission, was established in 2001. This Adventist church administrative unit functions within the state borders of the country. The headquarters is located in the capital city, Tbilisi.
Johann F. Ginter (Hinter) was the first pioneer Adventist missionary in Romania.
Euro-Asia Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Grigoriy Andreevich Grigoriev was a pastor and church administrator from Russia.
Alexander Gritz, an Adventist minister, served the Adventist Church in the West Russian and Ukrainian Union Conferences in the former Soviet Union and died as a martyr in a labor camp during Stalin’s repressions.
Ivan Afanasievich Gumenyuk was a pastor, author, and church administrator from Moldova.
The first Adventists appeared in the south of Kazakhstan in the late nineteenth century in the village of Konstantinovka, 25 kilometers away from Tashkent. Several German families, who had moved from the European part of Russia, received some Adventist booklets and started celebrating the Sabbath. After a short time, Adventist congregations were organized in Akmolinsk (now Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan) and Auliye-Ata (now Taraz).
Euro-Asia Division Kazakhstan Country (Based on SDA membership)
Kazakhstan Mission encompasses the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan and is part of the Southern Union Mission in the Euro-Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Organized as far back as 1979 as the Kazakhstan District, this church entity went through a number of reorganizations leading to the establishment of the Kazakhstan Mission in 2022.
Isack (Izaak) Kleimanis was one of the most respected pastors in the Latvian Conference and in the territory of the former USSR.
Kubano-Chernomorskaya Conference is a part of the Caucasus Union Mission in the Euro-Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It was organized in 2002. Its headquarters is in Yablonovskiy, Republic of Adygea, Russian Federation.
Ivan Mikhailovich Kucheryavenko was a pastor, evangelist, and martyr for Christ in Ukraine and Russia in the 1900s.
Mikhail Petrovich Kulakov was an Adventist preacher and president of the Euro-Asia Division of the Adventist Church (1990–1993). He was engaged in translating the Bible into Russian and served as director and editor-in-chief of the Bible Translation Institute at Zaoksky (Russia) and actively defended human rights and freedoms.
Stepan Pavlovich Kulyzhskiy served the Seventh-day Adventist Church for almost 60 years as evangelist, pastor, and administrator.
The Adventist message came to Kyrgyzstan in 1891. At that time, this territory of Asiatic Russia was named as a Turkestan. Heinrich Ott, who was an Adventist, moved with his family from the Volga region to the village of Orlovka. Other Adventist families also came there. Philipp Trippel was among the newcomers as well. He was the first mentor who coordinated preaching the Adventist message.
Euro-Asia Division Kyrgyzstan Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Kyrgyzstan Conference was a church unit that operated from 1990 to 1994, when Kyrgyzstan and the southern part of Kazakhstan were united into the Southern Conference.
The Kyrgyzstan Conference was a Central Asian church unit that was organized in 2002 and changed to a Mission in 2010.
Pavel Ivanovich Lagutov was an Armenian Adventist pastor whose work in Georgia from 1968 to 1998 helped to reestablish the Adventist Church in that country.
Conrad Laubhan was the earliest pioneer Adventist missionary in Russia, with the significant support of his wife, Katherine Sophia.
Euro-Asia Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
The Little Russian Conference was a pre-USSR church unit located mostly in modern day Ukraine. It operated from 1912 to sometime between 1917 and 1920.