The Buckwheat field. Siberia. Photo credit: TRUE WAY / youtube.com
More than 50 Old Believers will return from the USA to Russia soon, TASS reports. They are going to Primorsky Krai. As the authorities of the region explained, the process of obtaining visas is now underway.
According to the head of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church, Kornily, these people are very hardworking. Their main goal is to work honestly and conscientiously, to work in their homeland.
The clergyman has no doubt that even more people will return to their native land soon. They will come from Latin American countries and from other regions.
Primorye Governor Oleg Kozhemyako is confident that the Old Believers will help develop the agricultural sector in the region. He assured that the authorities are doing everything they can to support the resettlers, who are going to cultivate fallow lands and revive agriculture.
Hundreds of Old Believers living abroad are ready to return to Russia and move to the Far East, said Metropolitan Kornily. He recalled that the resettlement program approved by the country's government is bearing fruit. Old Believers have been returning from abroad to the Far East since 2009. Now there are four locations for the resettled Old Believers in the Primorsky Territory and in the Amur Region.
A few years ago, eight heads of Old Believer communities from Brazil and the United States became Russian citizens. The program to promote the voluntary resettlement of compatriots has been operating in the region for more than 10,5 years. Over the years, more than 50,000 people have moved there.
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