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In 90-s there had place the «spiritual revival» of not only large religious organizations, that are considered traditional in Russia (for example, the Russian Orthodox Church), but also of those confessions, who were regarded as «bourgeois» and «malicious» in the years of Soviet power. This is, for example, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Lutheranism and a number of others. Specificity is that there is a gap between the generation that belonged to these confessions in Soviet time and those who had turned to the faith at the post-Soviet period, which the official representatives of religions try to ignore or design the relationship of generations of believers. However the documents, both of internal (memoirs, diaries) and external (the reports of the Commissioners for religious Affairs and the KGB) origin, reveal that organization and the internal life of religious organizations in the Soviet Union were fundamentally different from the lives of their brothers in the West. «Older» generation of believers hardly overcame these differences and some of them have saved up to our days. I interviewed a number of representatives of the older generation, whose religious activities started in the Soviet Union. The purpose 35 of my research was to understand how they explain their activities and their experience of religious life in the USSR. The second set of the interview I held with representatives of the post-Soviet generation of believers, to discover how they construct experience of older generations, how they position them, whether they think the Soviet generation of believers has kept the «true faith». As a result of research in several communities, there could be highlighted the several models of communication between «old» and «new» generations. I am going to present these models in my report