The information is from Redkin V. and Shtempelev Pavel.
“We began to receive questions “How can we come to live there?”. And more and more often such questions come from people, who are either little acquainted with our way of living, or not acquainted at all. For example, a person living in Western Europe, having watched a brief movie about the Abode of Dawn, is asking what can he do to come to live in the Abode. A few words about our life. The Abode of Dawn is a Sacred place, the central settlement of the community, built in the taiga by the hands of the believers. And in the Abode of Dawn are living only believers in the today’s Accomplishment, they determine themselves who will live here. At this moment that is 300 people together with the children. There are approximately 20 villages of two regions of Krasnoyarskij kraj, Kuraginskij and Karatuzskij, where live around 4000 people (there’s no accurate data), who relate themselves to the community of Vissarion. We are legally registered as Kuragino’s local religious organization ‘Church of the Last Testament’, but the membership in the church is not being registered and there is no management or control on its part, people live independently. There are no leaders in the Church, there are people, who can be called “coordinators”, but they don’t have the right to rule or direct anybody. A greater self-control in those, who consider themselves believers can occur, when people unite in the so-called Common Family (usually in one locality), where the relationships are closer, more responsible, where one’s mistakes are more visible, and they are being discussed together for finding the proper solution in accord with the Teaching, brought by The Teacher (Vissarion). We regard Him as the Word of the Father. The economic activity of such a formation (Common Family) is determined by the assembly of the believers, which entrusts the coordination of the current activities to the elected economic council.
The community does not provide income, food, stable housing etc., these issues are solved by all those who live here on their own, based on their potential and capabilities, uniting wherever possible for mutual help.
Our life proceeds on the ground, it is not easy, we are trying to build a self-sufficient community, depending on our own efforts, where everything necessary for the good of the soulmate will be created by our own hands. To earn money in these villages is almost impossible, except (and for the most part) for the building sector, where good professional skills are needed. State jobs in the villages are also rare – only schools and village administration in some of the villages.
The new-comers either build homes on their own, or buy houses, or, if there’s no funds to buy a home, they find people with whom they can stay or rent a place.
If you do not have Russian citizenship, but you want to settle in (or just visit as a guest) the community, you will have to fulfill all the requirements of the Migration Service very accurately, because the attention to all, who are living here by law enforcement agencies is high. Be careful when obtaining a visa: we have repeatedly encountered with the fact, that firms providing tourist visas to Russia, give information about the rules of registration either inaccurate or incomplete, why people then could face difficulties with law enforcement agencies, which ended in fines, and sometimes – expulsion from Russia with a ban on entry for 5 years. Specify in advance the rules of registration in the Russian embassy or consulate in your country.
How to get to us. The nearest airport and a large railway station: Abakan, the capital of Khakassia (200 km. to one of the base villages – Petropavlovka). Krasnoyarsk (airport and railway station): 600 km by car by good road, or 370 km by not very good road to the same Petropavlovka through Kuragino district centre. The nearest railway station is Kuragino (it can be reached both from Krasnoyarsk and Abakan), from Kuragino to Petropavlovka 80 km. by bus or by car.”
