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Capital: Moscow
Area: 17.1 million kmē
Population: 147 million(December 2000 est.)
Ethnic groups: Around 80% are Russian, other ethnic groups include Tatar, Ukrainian, Chuvash, Bashkir, Byelorussian, and Kazhak
Official language(s): Russian
Religion(s): Russian Orthodox and Islam
Currency: 1 rouble = 100 kopek
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Our Facilities
The decision to build an SOS Children's Village in Russia was made as early as in 1989. As the site originally selected for the venture turned out to be unsuitable, the plans had to be changed and a new site found. The construction work on the SOS Children's Village Tomilino near Moscow finally started in 1992.
In June 1995 the cornerstone for a second SOS Children's Village in Orjol was laid. The SOS Children's Village Tomilino was completed at the end of 1995 and in spring of 1996, the first needy children were admitted. The official opening took place on 16 April 1998 in presence of Helmut Kutin, president of SOS-Kinderdorf International, and numerous guests of honour.
In August 1998 the first children moved into the SOS Children's Village Orjol and only a few months later, construction work on the third SOS Children's Village in Pushkin, near St. Petersburg, started. This particular Village was declared to be the jubilee project on the occasion of the 50-Years-Anniversary of SOS-Kinderdorf International. In spring 2000 the new SOS Children's Village St. Petersburg was officially opened. Construction work on the fourth Russian SOS Children's Village commenced in January 2001 in Kandalaksha, approx. 250 km south of Murmansk.
Contact:
Russian Committee SOS Children's Village
Kedrova str. 5, bld. 1
117292 Moscow
Russia
tel. +7-095-718 99 18
fax +7-095-718 99 18
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