Website: www.grishino.ecology.net.ru
Residents (children/adults): 2 children and 10 adults
Comments: We came here from different cities to live on the land in harmony with each other and with Nature. We all have different world-conceptions, but we are learning to accept each other and to co-create together our community.
Twelve of us live in Grishino all year round. We have several traditional Russian styled, community and private houses. We grow what we eat in our vegetable gardens, and gather lots of herbs from a large meadow of wildflowers. Our ecovillage is surrounded by natural forests, where we gather berries, and mushrooms, and in which there live many kinds of wild
birds and animals, like beavers, moose, bears, hares, foxes, wolves, wild cats, and many others. We are starting a project on ecological forest management.
We aim to continue the cultural traditions of our ancestors, learning the folk arts, their songs and dances, woodcraft, ceramics and village architecture; and we are endeavouring to create a family school for our children.
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Each summer we hold seminars for adults and children where one
can participate in the spiritual life and work of our community and to merge
with the spirit of Russian nature.
2.2. Name: The Centre for Ecological Initiatives "Nevo-Ecoville".
Date of foundation: 1993
Head or POC: Goncharov Ivan S.- executive director
Post address: Russia, 186750, Karelia, Sortavala, ulitsa Lenina 22
Address: Russia, 186750, Karelia, Sortavala, derevnya Reuskula
Tel.: +7 81430 23643
Fax: +7 812 113 5896
E-mail: nevo@onego.ru , vanjata@onego.ru
Website: http://www.onego.ru/win/pages/nevo
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Residents (children/adults): 40 including 23 adults and 17 children (17 people live permanently)
Comments: Gardening, construction, tourism.
2.3. Name: Muraviovka Park for sustainable Land Use
Date of foundation: 1994
Head or POC: Sergei Smirenski, the
director, Marina Kolodina - education program coordinator
Post address: Russia, 676964, Amurskaya oblast, Tambovski raion, Muraviovka
Park
Address: Russia, 676964, Amurskaya oblast, Tambovski raion, Muraviovka Park
Tel.: (4162)35 -94-43
Fax:
E-mail: sergei@savingcranes.org or cranes@amur.ru or zhuravl@sdf.lonestar.org
Website: http://www.savingcranes.org/abouticf/friends.asp and http://zhuravl.freeshell.org
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Residents (children/adults): 10 staff people who work at Park all the year round and 60-80
more students and adults from Russia, China, the USA, South Korea and Japan
who come for summer.
Comments: Wetland Protection of Amur River Basin, Research,
Sustainable Land Use and Organic Farming, International Collaboration for
Environmental and Language Education, bird-watching, team-building
activities, agricultural classes.
2.4.Name: Non-profit Partnership "Ecovillage Lubinka"
Date of foundation: 2002
Head or POC: Alexander Metelkin - the head
Post address: PO Box 3, Moscow 117485, Russia
Address: Russia, 140578, Moscovskaya oblast, Ozery rayon, derevnya Butkovo
Tel.: +7 (095) 335 5215
Fax:
E-mail: lubinka@forest.ru
Website: http://lubinka.forest.ru/index.html
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Residents: 5 - 10 - initiative group.
Comments: Non-profit Partnership "Ecovillage Lubinka" is a not-for-profit volunteers-based
organization created in June 2002 and incorporated as a charity later that year. The
partnership was created with the goals of creating an ecovillage in Ozery district,
Moscow region (140 km south of Moscow), and selecting and developing pilot programs
that can be replicated in other ecovillages throughout Russia.
At present there are no residents as the initiative group is in the process of buying
the land on which the first common house will be built. On the to-be ecovillage site
summer youth tent camp programs are being held.
3. Other existing ecovillages
3.1.Name: "Kitezh Children's Community", Non-profit partnership of foster families
3.2.Name: Non-profit partnership "Kovcheg"
3.1.Name:"Kitezh Children's Community", Non-profit partnership of foster families
Date of foundation: 1992
Head or POC: Morozov Dmitriy V.- the founder, Sergei Khlopenov - the head of the community
Post address: Russia, Kaluzhskaya oblast, Baryatinskiy rayon, derevnya Chumazovo, Kitezh
Address: Russia, 249650, Kaluzhskaya oblast, Baryatinskiy rayon, derevnya Chumazovo, Kitezh
Tel.: +7 08454 23224
Fax:
E-mail: kitezh@kaluga.ru
Website: http://www.kitezh.nm.ru
Residents (children/adults): 60 including 35 children, 20 adults and 5 volunteeres.
Comments: Educational research and innovations, language teaching,
farming, landscaping, crafts, art, building. Therapeutic work with orphan children
and children in crisis. Community is associated member of Charterhouse group of
therapeutic communities, UK www.charterhousegroup.org.uk
3.2.Name: Ecovillage "Kovcheg" ("The Ark"), Non-profit partnership
Date of foundation: August 2001
POC: Fedor Lazutin
Post address: Russia, 117218, Moscow, ulitsa Profsoyuznaya 17, korpus 1, dom 1
Address: Russia, Kaluzhskaya oblast, Maloyaroslavetsky rayon, Kovcheg (near derevnya Bobyli)
Tel.:
Fax:
E-mail: kovcheg@kovcheg.info
Website: http://www.kovcheg.info, English version http://www.kovcheg.info/description.html
Residents (children/adults): 26 including 16 adults and 10 children in winter, 45 including 25 adults and 20 children in summer
Comments: Rapidly growing ecovillage with hosting opportunity. The project is designed for up to 100 families. Construction, gardening, wood working, handicraft workshops, school and ecological education.
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