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Subbotniki Around the World / Russia / Siberia

Subbotniki in Siberia
Maps of Iudino (Bonderovo) village, Khakasii territory
Lev N Tolstoy explains T.M. Bondarev in 2 essays
Chapter 1: Industry and Idleness (pages 1-15, written 1884), and
Chapter 15. Timothy Bondaref (pages 210-212, written 1890)
in Essays and Letters By Leo Tolstoy, translated by Aylmer Maude, 1903.

Chapter 6: The New Life, in The Life of Tolstoy: Later years, by Aylmer Maude, 1911, pages 209-211. — Summary of above 2 essays about Bondaref
Святая, как хлеб, деревенька моя: К 80-летию Бейского района и 175-летию села Бондарево
ХАКАСИЯ Республиканская газета, феб. 2004.

My village is sacred as bread: On the 80th anniversary of Beisk region and 175th anniversary of Bondarev village (English translation)
KHAKASIYA Republic Newspaper, Feb. 2004
Избранное место на берегу речки
Красноярсий рабочий ; 27.02.2004 ; 36 ; Нина БОГДАНОВА.

Chosen place on a creek bank (English translation)
by Nina Bogdanova, The Krasnoyar Worker, 27 Feb. 2004, page 36
Bondarev and Tolstoy Excerpts from: Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors: an historical relationship,
by Andrew Donskov, University of Ottawa, 2005
Юлия Улыбина, СМ Номер один, Иркутск, №22 от 9 июня 2005 года
(Link contributed by Sergey Petrov - Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada in Mar. 2006.)
The Subbotniks of Zima want to emigrate to Israel  (English translation by WAA)
by Julia Ulybina,  The Newspaper "SM Number one", Irkutsk, June 9, 2005
... representatives were directed to Zima with the mission to find out what relationship Subbotniks there have to Judaism and how they observe Judaic traditions.....Irahmielju Nemzer, a participant in the expedition, does not know what conclusions were made by the Jewish Agency. However from her understanding of religious law, it was not possible to prove that these Subbotniks are a part of Judaism.
В селе Бондарево Бейского района состоялось открытие памятника Тимофею Бондареву
Москва, 06 октября 2005, НИА-Хакасия
Dedication of a monument to Timofei Bondarev took place in Bondarev village, Beisk region 
(English translation) Moscow, 6 October 2005, NIA-Khakasiia
Толстой и Иудино, Илбек Хакасстан — 27 Май 2009 (4 письма Толстого к Bonderev и 10 заметок)

Tolstoy and Iudino, By Ilbek Hakasstan — May 27, 2009 (4 letters from Tolstoi to Bonderev and 10 notes