Synagogues on wheels in Russia

Read on the website Vestnik Kavkaza

On July 18 the Jewish ethnographic expedition started off in Moscow. Within three weeks synagogues on wheels or mitzvah-mobiles will travel around Russia. During this time they will visit about 50 cities.

The first route will pass through cities in the south of Russia: Stavropol, Kislovodsk, Armavir, Sochi, Novorossiysk, Krasnodar, Taganrog, Rostov, Novocherkassk, Volgograd, Volga, Saratov, Penza and Ryazan.

The second mitzvah-mobile will go to Siberia - from Omsk via Novosibirsk and Barnaul to Bijsk, Novokuznetsk, Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo, Ugra, Tomsk, Mariinsky, Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk and Abakan.

The third synagogue on wheels will pass through Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, Yoshkar-Ola, Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Izhevsk, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Kurgan, Chelyabinsk, Miass, Ufa, Samara, Togliatti and stop in Ulyanovsk.