The kin’s settlement Chik-Yelga is located in the Republic of Bashkortostan, 110 km from the city of Ufa. There are a lot of berries, mushrooms, healing herbs. Mixed forests. There are lindens, oaks, pines, at the foot of the mountains - wild apple trees with large fragrant apples.
The kin’s settlement is actively growing and developing - here live creative, hardworking and enterprising people, united by common ideas outlined in a series of books "Ringing Cedars of Russia".
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For example, last year the settlers built a "Solar School" of humane pedagogy. They invited everyone to take part in the construction - they organized a volunteer camp. In return for helping to build the school, the volunteers gained experience in eco-construction. There were 6 hours of work per day, and the rest of the time - rest, bathing in the cleanest river, steaming in the bathhouse, collecting berries, mushrooms and medicinal herbs, participation in sports and creative master classes from residents of the settlement, a trip to the ice cave, participation in the holiday "Day of the Dachnik". Also, acquaintances with interesting people, good fellowship, songs around the campfire.
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Also, an enterprising team interested in the development of the kin’s settlement won several times in the grant competition of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Their projects won twice, and the main prizes were the financing of the kin’s settlement's ideas.
With the funds won in the competition, local residents built a Yurta - one of the central objects of the common creative space, where they hold workshops, creative classes, games, contests, and general meetings of the settlers.
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"There are a lot of classes and they are diverse - everyone chooses according to their desires and opportunities.
The main thing is that we now have such an opportunity to meet in the warm space of our Yurt. Someone conducts classes. Someone participates.
It is interesting. Yurt is different for everyone. Its associations, impressions, perception. But there is something common in our perception - because everyone who approaches the Yurt smiles," the settlers say.
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With the funds of the second grant, the settlers did something that has never been done in any other kin’s settlement - they made a movie "Two Brothers" based on the book by V. Merge. This project is unique in that it will be released in movie theaters. Actors, scriptwriters and directors were invited, and the first to watch the film of course were the residents of the kin’s settlement Chik-Yelga in the erected Yurt. The film will appear in cinemas and on the network after the festival period, not earlier than spring 2025.
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The kin’s settlement Chik-Elga is not just a place for a quiet and measured life - here every resident is a part of one big united team, which with its forces and ideas promotes and develops the settlement from scratch to great achievements, both inside and outside the kin’s settlement!
