01
Person
and family
Residents’ needs, work, education and access to everyday services.
What to prepare
Map of the needs of the territory and agreed roles of participants. Determine what knowledge and specialists people and farms need.
Human · Land · Cooperation
Living
Village
The roots are in tradition.
Looking ahead.
The future of a territory begins with people. With a family that stays on its land. With a farm that develops. With shared endeavour in which everyone has a role.
Project proposals for joint work
SFERAA World Without Borders
A shared focus for work
Cooperation,
which begins
from a specific place.
SPECZASHCHITA and the Federal Village Council — rural development, cooperation and the preparation of practical proposals.
Living Village connects residents’ needs, the farm’s capabilities and the condition of the land. The first task is to select a territory, bring participants together and define a result that can be verified.
Project materials
SPECZASHCHITA
Pilot, organization of cooperation, observation and verification of the result.
Forum and rural agenda
Federal Village Council
Dialogue of farms, cooperatives, specialists and producers.
The submitted documents describe proposals for joint work. Participants, roles, resources, and commitments are determined when a specific pilot is agreed upon.
Five Directions for a Pilot
The village lives,
when everything is connected.
Each direction has its own task and clear result. Together they add up to an environment where you can live, work and transfer experience.
Person
02
Living
Farming
Cultivation, storage, processing and careful handling of residual flows.
What to prepare
A production-chain profile. Choose the configuration of the full-cycle biofarm based on site data and participants’ capabilities.
03
Power
cooperation
Shared services, purchasing and equipment. Joint processing and sales.
What to prepare
A framework of agreements: participants, each person’s contribution, tasks and responsibility. Start with one shared need.
04
Land
and water
Soil, water conditions, plants and living communities are the basis of sustainable territory.
What to prepare
An observation map and a measurement programme. Relevant specialists choose methods, observation sites and conditions for comparison.
05
Verifiable
Result
The initial state, primary data, and repeated observations show changes.
What to prepare
Observation-point profiles, logs, protocols and a reviewer’s conclusion. Agree on acceptance criteria and limits to conclusions in advance.
Image of future territory
See
opportunities.
Artistic images develop the pilot’s idea. A specific area is chosen by the participants.
Example pilot plan
One pilot.
90 days.
Choose a place. Assemble a team. Find out the initial state. Do the work. Check for changes.
This is the proposed working model of the first cycle. The timing is specified according to the conditions of the site; the countdown begins after the approval of the pilot and the fulfillment of the starting conditions. Size, budget and access are agreed separately.
Open the presentation package- 01–15days
Prepare the basis
The facility and access to it, the team and roles, a work plan, methods and necessary resources.
- 16–30days
See initial state
Observations, observation-point profiles, logs and data-quality checks.
- 31–60days
Carry out the agreed work
Activities on the territory, repeated observations, accounting for costs and deviations.
- 61–90days
Check and select the next step
Evidence of the result, conclusions and a decision to continue or refine.
From discussion to shared endeavour
Working
meeting.
“Living Village: Biotic Community, Validation Points and Pilot Organisation”
A proposed SPECZASHCHITA session — 90 minutes to select a territory, discuss observations, assign tasks and prepare the next stage.
Planned meeting "Living Village"
2–3 November 2026
Moscow, Izmailovo
Dates and district are based on SPECZASHCHITA’s plan. The exact venue and programme are being finalised. Materials for the October forum are presented below in their archived edition.
What to take away from the meeting
- The pilot facility and participants
- Initial data and questions for specialists
- A list of tasks, resources and responsible people
- An action record with deadlines
The exact time, venue, programme and participants of the session are being agreed. In the original package, it is proposed as an additional event.
Prepare for a conversationPresentation package 2026
People, nature
and cooperation.
New films and short intros explore the Living Village concept: from a vision for the territory to joint work.
Presentation film · 1:30
Living Village: A Common Future
Man and family, agriculture, cooperation, land and water. Project proposals for joint work on a specific territory.
Open MP4 ↗Three Project Images
Conceptual intros presenting the territory, cooperation and the natural environment.
Archive of preparations for the October forum
Original films
The materials of the previous edition are saved for acquaintance with the history of the project. The October dates in the archival invitation refer to the original program.
Archival Concept Film · 2:19
Living Village
People, land and joint work. A proposed path from the territory’s needs to a pilot with a verifiable result.
Open MP4 ↗Archived revision · 1:21
Village Council - invitation
The forum preparation video gives the following dates and location in its narration and subtitles: 2–3 October 2026, Moscow. This revision is saved as the source program material.
Open MP4 ↗Foundations and materials
The plan,
which can be studied.
The three source documents remain unchanged. The October dates refer to the archived version of preparations for the forum.
The Living Village.
Presentation package
The forum programme, pilot architecture, biotic community, verification points, working session and decision forms. Proposed additions are identified in the document itself.
Project proposals and source programme
Download originalProgramme
Forum promotion
Seven round-table topics, a publication calendar, work with editorial teams and a record of results. Media placements and partner participation are proposed for agreement.
Working draft · 2–3 October 2026
Download originalProduction
and distribution of materials
Package contents, preparation of videos and publications, allocation of roles, file versions, targeted distribution and a record of actual publications.
Working organizational document
Download originalOfficial sources of the forum and attribution
Full title: the Agrarian-Industrial Union forum “Rural Russia — Food Security and Industrial Revival”. The forum programme belongs to the materials of OD “Federal Village Council”. Living Village and the SPECZASHCHITA session are identified as proposed additions in the presentation package.
In the promotion programme, Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov is named as the source of the media-resource list; in EQUILIBRIUM materials, he is named as the initiator of the concept.
Sources checked on 29 September 2026. The official pages give 2–3 October 2026. The planned Living Village meeting in November is listed according to SPECZASHCHITA’s plan and presented separately from the October forum.
First step
Let’s start with a place.
And with your work.
Residents, farmers, cooperatives, professionals, and partners can enter the discussion with a specific task and understandable input.
Contact SPECZASHCHITAFor the first conversation
- What territory or farm do you represent?
- What is the task to be solved and what data is already available?
- What are you ready to contribute: experience, site, research, work?
- Who else is needed and how to check the overall result?