Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC) is a Jewish

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 organisation dedicated to restoring Jewish life, culture and religion in the Commonwealth of Independent States

Commonwealth of Independent States

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 (CIS), the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. The FJC was founded in November 1998.

Current heads of the organization are:

• Lev Leviev
  Lev Leviev
  Lev Avnerovich Leviev is a Bukharian-Israeli billionaire businessman, with a net worth of roughly $1.5 billion following the 2008 global financial crisis. Leviev is one of the most prominent Mizrahi Jewish individuals in the world and has been a major philanthropist for Jewish causes in Eastern...
  
  , President of FJC of the CIS
• Rabbi Berel Lazar
  Berel Lazar
  Rabbi Shlomo Dovber Pinchas Lazar, better known as Berel Lazar, is an Orthodox, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi. He is presently Chief Rabbi of Russia, and chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities...
  
  , chief rabbi of Russia, head of Union of Rabbis of CIS

Its headquarters is in Moscow, Russia

Russia

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, and it has an office in New York

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.

FJC have a total of 454 affiliated member communities throughout the former USSR. http://www.fjc.ru/news/newsArticle.asp?AID=386677

Russia

The 171 member communities of FJC in Russia http://www.fjc.ru/communities/communities.asp?aid=80069 are as follows:

Member Community	Rabbi	Local Leader
Abakan		Grigory Pekhotnik & V. Adyanov
Achinsk		Ilya Grinberg
Anapa		Iosif Rogelberg & Tatiana Shaulova
Angarsk		Roman Mattern
Arkhangelsk		Vladimir Bovykin, Boris Litvak, Vadim Kalinin & Zhanna Bovykina.
Armavir		Vladimir Armer
Arsenyev		Vitaliy Nikitin, Isaak Myasnikov, Grigoriy Rosenblum, Elena Lazareva & Anton Zazontov.
Artem		Boris Shlemov
Astrakhan	Rabbi Shlomo Goldenberg	Yuri Feldman & Larisa Russ.
Balakovo		Dmitriy Adrianov
Balashov		Vladimir Vendrov
Barnaul	Rabbi Isroel Noah Kamenetsky	Sergey Leonov & Mila Nezdatnaya.
Belgorod		Yury Grisko, Lola Kolpina & Shtalman Elena.
Birobidzhan Birobidzhan Birobidzhan is a town and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Trans-Siberian railway, close to the border with the People's Republic of China....	Rabbi Mordechai Scheiner Mordechai Scheiner Mordechai Sheiner has been Chief Rabbi of Jewish Autonomous Oblast since 2002.-Background:Mordechai Sheiner came to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in 2002. He arrived in Birobidzhan as a 30 year old rabbi from Israel. He had never been to Birobidzhan before, but spoke Russian thanks to two years he...	Lev Toitman Lev Toitman Lev Grigorievich Toitman, , was a soldier in World War II . Toitman is known for the, "foundation and revival of the local Jewish community" in Birobidzhan.-Jewish Community leadership:...
Biysk		Yan Ozornin
Blagoveschensk		Valeri Malinovsky, Olga Ponyaeva & Konstantin Trusevich.
Borovichi		Eduard Alexeyev, Ekaterina Isakova, Natalia Putzyp & Vasili Rubin.
Bratsk		Sergey Gluzberg, Anastasia Spiritus & Yuriy Leiderman.
Bryansk	Rabbi Mendel Zaklos	Lev Linkov, Galina Komarova & Tatiana Roitman.
Buinaksk		Rafik Pashaev & Karina Hudadatova.
Chebarkul		Boris Goslavsky
Cheboksary		Iosif Vinokur
Chelyabinsk	Rabbi Meir Kirsh	Abram Zhuk, Yosef Gotzkozik, Liza Zlutkina & Tatiana Bakalinskaya.
Cherepovetz		Alexander Chernigov
Cherkessk		Vitaliy Milikovsky & Eleonora Erchenko.
Chita		Boris Eremin
Derbent	Rabbi Ovadiya Isakov	Meer Mishiev & Pangoda Shaulov .
Dmitrovgrad		Grigoriy Liberman
Dubna		Aleksandr Ksenofontov
Dzerzhinsk	Rabbi Pinchas Klimash	Roman Zitzer
Elista		Igor Kononov
Engels		Viktor Birbraer
Gelenjik		Evgeny Skvortzov & Georgy Darov
Goryachy Klyuch		Lev Shneiderman
Irkutsk	Rabbi Aaron Wagner	Vladimir Chazanov, Menachem Mendel Pikerski & Lena Feldman.
Ivanovo		Ervin Kirshtein, Nadezhda Kochina & Roza Puhova.
Izhevsk		Yakov Maltzev, Mark Goldin & Larisa Shekhter.
Kaliningrad	Rabbi David Shvedik	Zinoviy Yakobson, Vyacheslav Kaminsky & Olga Kozlovskaya.
Kaluga		Vladimir Feldman & Svetlana Pruzhanskaya.
Kamensk-Uralsky		Vladimir Chukhman
Kasimov		Mikhail Lipkovker, Yuri Kosarev & Vladimir Akutin.
Kazan	Rabbi Yitzchak Gorelik	Alexander Velder, Iosif Beskin, Ludmila Sheina, Svetlana Russ, Anna Velder, Petr Grachev & Elena Frenkel.
Kemerovo		Ilya Bondarenko & Leonid Rukman.
Khabarovsk	Rabbi Yakov Snetkov	Mark Arshinsky, Sofia Levinzon, Roman Nazarenov, Stella Rud, Natalia Nedosekina, Natalia Nikolaeva, Inna Strelova, Yuli Ginsburg, V. Rud, Dina Aksman, Marina Ilyschenko, Emma Furland, Dmitriy Katzman, Eduard Mosin & A. Vainer.
Kineshma		Vladimir Mladenov & Shlundina Ludmila.
Kirov		Boris Yevlinsky
Kislovodsk		Mihail Blayberg & Victoria Lanovaya.
Klintzy		Max Pinsky, Ludmila Savchenko, Sofia Strobinskaya, Lev Veberov & Iosif Azarov.
Komsomolsk-on-Amur		Viktor Ivanov & Grigoriy Leiserovich.
Korkino		Semen Nukhimzon
Korsakov		Leonid Mironov
Kostroma	Rabbi Nison Ruppo	Aharon Shtykov, Nyusya Goldshtein, Alexander Kochman, Ida Nechayeva, Larisa Shub, Galina Skarzhinskaya, Alla Ryzhanskaya, Sara Feyman, Mikhail Geidman, Yelena Tchaikovsky & Rafail Blumberg.
Krasnodar	Rabbi Shneur Segal	Yuri Teitelbaum, Mariana Kisaeva & Yevgeny Alexeyenko.
Krasnoturinsk		Vladimir Loginov
Krasnoyarsk	Rabbi Benyamin Wagner	Yuri Livshitz, David Gershevich, Boris Vagner, Seray Shenberger & Evgeny Krivitckiy.
Kurgan		Gary Dobrusin & Anneta Kasianova.
Kursk	Rabbi Meir Hertzel	Boris Diner, Alla Diner & Alla Volokhova.
Kuznetzk		Mikhail Trabinovich
Kyshtym		Semen Katz
Lipetsk		Naum Shaknyuk
Lubavichi
Magadan		Nikolai Matlakhov & Boris Levin.
Magnitogorsk		Izya Kotlyar & Svetlana Kotlyar.
Mahachkala		Shimi Dibyayev & Boris Izmailov.
Maikop		Yakov Frenkel, Svetlana Sirenko & M. Vinnik.
Malakhovka	Rabbi Moshe Tamarin	Mikhail Glimcher & Borukh Fikh.
Miass		Ilya Gershtein
Minusinsk		Daniil Reznitzky
Moscow	Rabbi Berel Lazar, Rabbi Boruch Kleinberg, Rabbi Shlomo Lediev, Rabbi Avraham Bekerman, Rabbi Avraham Elashvili, Rabbi Daniel Belyak, Rabbi Yosef Marzel, Rabbi Avraham Livshitz, Rabbi Yakov Fridman, Rabbi Yaakov Klein, Rabbi Nochum Leidiker, Rabbi Shmuel Kuperman, Rabbi Yosef Khersonsky, Rabbi Yosef Lipsker, Rabbi Yitzchak Kogan, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Goldberg, David Mondshine, Mordechai Weisberg.	Simona Mishulovin, Uri Spasky, Aaron Golovchiner, Dr Shaya Shafit, Yakov Leviev, Natan Morgunovsky, Meyeris Zatcepinskas, Alexander Boroda, Sergey Sladkov, Mihail Schypak, Zeyev Kuravsky, Anatoli Norshtein, Miriam Barenbaum, Caroline Polani, Yosef Verzub, Oleg Listenr, Evgenia Nazarova, Boruch Gorin, Alexander Lakshin, Alexander Tsaluk, Golda Tamarina, Vladimir Podolny, Manahim Manahimov, Liya Lyubovnaya, Leah Ratner, Emma Kostyukovskaya, Galina Evtushenko, Vladimir Davidov, Yehuda Bronfman & Avraham Grozman.
Mozdok		Valeri Inotaev & Tatiana Nazarova.
Murmansk		Ilya Raskin & Rudolf Dolgin.
Murom		Yakov Sverdlov
Mytischi	Rabbi Aaron Gurevich	Gennadiy Kureneez
Naberezhnye Chelny		Yevgeniy Kogan
Nadym		Boris Kuperman
Nakhodka		Aron Ladizhensky & Galina Konovalova
Nalchik	Rabbi Levi Shabayev	Boris Izgiyaev, Rafail Babaev, V. Perelgut & Gersil Rubinov.
Naryan-Mar		Valeri Kononov
Nevinnomyssk		Isak Bunimovich
Nizhnekamsk		Arnold Miller
Nizhny Novgorod	Rabbi Shimon Bergman & Rabbi Menachem Rabinovich.	Eduard Chaprak, Marina Pashton, Susanna Turaeva, Ekena Derechinskaya, Zhanna Vitebskaya, V. Yankov, I. Serebro, Dvora Fisher, Oleg Sharno.
Nizhny Tagil		Yakov Raizman, Olga Chausovchkaya, Elena Shmakova, Svetlana Timofeeva & Anna Dubnova.
Norilsk		Mikhail Shusterman, Anna Suhinina & Sofia Gaznetskaya.
Novgorod Veliky	Rabbi Gershon Paley	Grigory Fainberg
Novocherkassk		Alexander Stepanov, Boris Legran & Susanna Kulakova
Novokuibyshevsk		Aron Bergal
Novokuznetsk		Yuri Medovy
Novorossiyisk		Dmitry Bekker & L. Saraf.
Novosibirsk	Rabbi Zalman Zaklos	Semion Osherov, Yefim Zingel
Novouralsk		Oleg Kornechug & Anatoliy Kandalov.
Novozybkov		Vladimir Reznikov & Svetlana Chichelanova.
Obninsk		Zakhar Ser
Omsk	Rabbi Osher Krichevsky	Leonid Khait, Ilya Edelshtein, S. Sosnitskaya, Sara Batushanskaya, Yana Shivelina, Yakov Birlyant, Roman Simakhov & Galina Vatrushkina.
Orenburg	Rabbi Goel Mayers	Zinoviy Eidlitz, Igor Savilizon, Lyudmila Fokina & Svetlana Nudelman.
Orsk		Boris Bruk
Oryol		Semion Livshitz, Igor Trusov, Evgenia Stemouhova, Ludmila Livshitz, Tatiana Tretiakova & Anna Krylova.
Ozersk		Anatoliy Feldman
Partizansk		Yevgeny Grunberg & Svetlana Khristenko.
Perm	Rabbi Zalman Deutch & Rabbi Boruch Kabarnovsky.	Aron Zismanov, Svetlana Baranova, Efraim Benyaminov, Igor Ternavskiy, Konstantin Dolganovsky & Ludmila Zakharova.
Pervouralsk		Aleksandr Narbutovskikh
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky		Sergey Kurbatov, Evgenia Latman & Felix Grinberg.
Petrozavodsk		Dmitry Tsvibel, Natalia Kuzmenko, Alexander Modylevskiy & Igor Plugatavenko.
Polevskoy		Mikhail Benkovsky & Bronislava Rovinskaya
Priozersk		Yakov Slobitker
Prokopyevsk		Sergey Senchurov
Pskov		Roman Kagan, Leonid Eiberman, Anna Yuryeva, Irina Konvershikova & Oleg Fedorov.
Pushkino		Michail Masluk & Roman Ragimov.
Revda		Boris Rebitzky & Olga Dryagina.
Roslavl		Viktor Goryachkin
Rostov-on-Don	Rabbi Chaim Fridman	Yuri Rubinov, Svetlana Kreneva, Ludmila Rubinova, Tamara Popova & Anna Knysh.
Ryazan		Leonid Reznikov, Elena Shvalb, Mastbaum Mihail & Valeria Reznikova.
Rybinsk		Leonid Berkovsky & Irina Falevich.
S. Petersburg	Rabbi Menachem Mendel Pewzner, Rabbi Tzvi Pinski, Rabbi Meir Kozlovskiy & Rabbi Chaim Tolochinsky.	Mark Grubarg, Avrohom Arshinov, Valeri Stolov, Iosif Razran, Tamaz Sepiashvili, Barukh Finkelshtein, Masha Arshinova, Arina Sominsky & Regina Shmidt.
Salavat		Grigory Yurovsky
Samara	Rabbi Shlomo Deutch	Mikhail Safronchik, Evgeniya Krasnitskaya, Maya Borzova, Svetlana Grishkina & Irina Fainberg.
Sarapul		Anatoly Rusinov
Saratov	Rabbi Yakov Kubichek	Boris Berzon, Margarita Karlysheva & Mark Khosh.
Sarov		Alexander Matushkin
Serov		Vladimir Ratnovsky
Severodvinsk		Mikhail Simkin, Olga Behter, Lia Popova-Furie & Yana Nortina.
Shakhty		Isaak Mindlin
Sharya		Oleg Vilensky
Smolensk	Rabbi Levi Mondshine	Zinovi Agranat, Marianna Volkomorova, Galina Tcurieva, Tatiana Petunina & Margarita Raiskina.
Sochi	Rabbi Arye Edelkopf	Isaak Shvartzburd, Borislav Yegudin & Stas Liubransky.
Spassk-Dalny		Lev Baskin & Lidia Baskina.
Sretensk		Alexander Yakobson & Viktor Yakobson
Stavropol		Efim Fainer & Vladimir Shif.
Sterlitamak
Surazh		Mikhail Gusakov
Surgut		Igor Zhivotikov
Svetly Yar		Aron Gandelman, Natalia Evseeva & Inna Motornaya.
Syktyvkar		Leonid Zilberg & Olga Moiseevich.
Syzran		Lev Kushner
Taganrog		Tankha Oterstein & Olga Urshanskaya.
Tambov		Arkady Farba, Mikhail Kliot, Yaroslava Starostenko, Galina Mechkovskaya & Yuri Shpilberg.
Togliatti	Rabbi Meir Fisher	Alexander Nagelberg, Zoya Prischepova & Yana Zavaltovsky.
Tomari		Vladimir Bystritzkiy
Tomsk	Rabbi Levi Kaminetsky	Yuriy Zelvensky & Baruch Romatsky.
Troitzk		Shulya Shehtman & Elisaveta Shehtman.
Tuapse		Yakov Naruzhniy
Tula		Lev Raikhlin & Evgenia Raihlina.
Udomlya		Grigoriy Gringlaz
Ufa	Rabbi Dan Krichevsky	Semen Livshitz, Alevtina Yakimova, Igor Zaydenberg, Vadim Nesterov, Mark Skundin, Boris Brondz, Boris Fridlyand, Alevtina Yakimova, Semen Spivak, Klavdiya Kiseleva, Marina Kolabukhova, Raisa Rubashkina, Valentina Lukianova, Ella Senderovich & Shoshana Tzirelson.
Uglegorsk		Grigoriy Krumer
Ukhta		Alexander Persidsky
Ulan-Ude		Vladimir Balandin, Evgeny Chistiakov, Nina Babenko & Vladimir Petushkeev.
Ulyanovsk	Rabbi Yosef Morozov	Mikhail Livshitz, M. Engavatyh & V. Chapanina.
Unecha		Vladimir Bolotin
Ussuriysk		Leonid Kaplan
Velikie Luki		Alexander Kunitza, Anatoliy Marchenko, Anna Rehiashvili, Olga Ivanova & Margarita Simonovich.
Verkhnyaya Pyshma		Boris Kaufman
Vladikavkaz		Mark Petrushansky, Alexander Kravetz & Natalia Karlova.
Vladimir		Lev Shamaev
Vladivostok	Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein	Gregory Klebanov & Vladimir Yanklevich.
Volgograd	Rabbi Zalman Yoffe	Erlich Aronov, Valentina Grimalovskaya, Yelizaveta Bulgacheva, Yelena Abramova, Yelena Nikitina, Irina Karnakova, Vera Kuznetsova, Inna Chizhikova, Ludmila Tolstykh, Yelizaveta Bulgacheva , Yuri Karnakov, Olga Khoroshilova & Miriam Maximova.
Vologda		Semen Nakhmanovich
Volzhsky		Gary Tarlovsky & Sofia Kotliar.
Vorkuta		Vitaliy Velikovsky & Grigoriy Sushansky.
Voronezh		Stanislav Nezhelsky
Vyazma		Vladimir Krepkanovich & Lidia Chinareva.
Vyborg		Lev Kreimer, Abel Shlozberg & Olga Pozdniakova.
Yakutsk		Alexander Gommershtadt & Sara Lifshitz.
Yekaterinburg	Rabbi Zelig Ashkenazi	Yakov Soskin, Elvira Babich, Yulia Uster, Vladimir Raputov, Sergey Usov, Anna Savelyeva, Alexander Savelyev, Yaffa Barkan, Yekaterina Lapinskaya, Ludmila Gitelman, Isaak Soskin, Boris Weisberg & Irina Tsyvyanova.
Yeletz		Igor Levin
Yoshkar-Ola		Mark Aron & Vil Khayet.
Yurga		Mikhail Kaplan, V. Makarovskiy & Svetlana Kaplan.
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk		Veneslav Kotman
Zadonsk		Alexander Gomenyuk
Zelenograd		Yuri Yuranov
Zhukovsky		Efim Shoikhet
Zlatoust		Ilya Yudovich, Evdokia Krohina & Svetlana Biketova.