In 1937 Belarusian Soviet writers Jurka Vićbič and Źmitrok Biadula visited Mogilev; they found the Cold Synagogue in deteriorated state. Religious life was persecuted under the Soviet regime, and a lot of religious building were either destroyed or used as warehouses. The article that Vićbič wrote about the synagogue in 1971, "It was in Mogilev" ("Она была в Могилёве"), is the only known testimony of the latest days of the synagogue.
