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title: "A Letter from Russia - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "A Letter from Russia: from IVU News 2002 Hello Editor, Dear colleagues, December 2001, we celebrated the 100 anniversary of the vegetarian society in Russia. We are happy to inform you that for the first time since the October Revolution in 1917, the vegetarian movement in Russia finally has its"
url: "https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=5492:news-2002-letter&catid=225"
date: "2026-11-06T00:10:43+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  A Letter from Russia

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 **A Letter from Russia** *from IVU News 2002*

Hello Editor,
 Dear colleagues,

 December 2001, we celebrated the 100 anniversary of the vegetarian society in Russia. We are happy to inform you that for the first time since the October Revolution in 1917, the vegetarian movement in Russia finally has its own printed media - the monthly Journal 'Vegetarianets'.

The new issue came out in August 2001 with the circulation of 25,000 (52 pages in full color). For more information about this edition, please see our web site at www vegetarianec.ru

Our full colored almanac is distributed in Moscow St. Petersburg. and several other cities in Russia and the NIS. On its pages you will find fascinating information about vegetarianism in Russia. We take a look at the aspects of vegetarianism from different viewpoints: medical, religious. philosophical, ethical, esthetical, ecological, economical, hygienic, and others.

Unfortunately. we didn't have an opportunity to communicate with you before now. Today, when the vegetarian movement has a new impulse for revival in Russia. we are open to all who support the ideas of vegetarianism.

We believe that our Journal will help develop spiritual communication. cooperation in trade. exchange of cultural and business information. Our goal is to establish business contacts, to provide informational materials, to determine new fields of cooperation. and thus to promote cultural exchange.

Your offers are always welcome.

You can write to us at: Moscow 123100, P/O Box 17 or call us at 728-7194. or simply send us an e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Sincerely.
 Nikolai Kalanov
 Editor in chief of "Vegetarianets"

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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