On Sunday I went to Vila Zelina, a Eastern European neigbourhood in the Eastern part of Sao Paulo and I loved it! You can easily get there by metro, it's on the green line, same as Vila Madalena at the veeery end. The name of the station is Vila Prudente.
A big Ortodox Church where I met a father Georgiy, a biological father of Vladimir Petrenko, the priest from a nice and cozy church in Moema. There is also bakery that sells a real Russian black bread, some small off-licence stores selling salty and smoked hering "selyodka" and pickled cucumbers - "solyenye ogurtsy"! And a language school Yazigi which offers a Russian language course!I have met some really nice people, all of them speak very good Russian, especially the priest Georgiy! OMG, It seemed like he just got of the Transaero direct flight from Moscow!
The neighbourhood has it's own Russian association, which includes a folcloric band, a travel agency to Eastern European countries, a football team, a theatre group and a chorale!! It also has it's own small magazine called "Comunidade russa" and a website of the neighbourhood: http://www.portaldavilazelina.com.br
The area has some Catholic Churches too (one of them is Lithuanian) and there is even one Ukrainian Autocefalous, not counting other 2 Autocefalous churches in a different city - São Caetano, which is situated in 10 km. from the Vila Zelina.
The neighbourhood is growing, changing and willing to be better day to day! "We want to have traditional events organized here in Vila every 2 month! And we do not want to swap our neighbourhood for another one. Here are our roots, our culture, here is the spot that has been created by the hands of our grandparents and parents, here we have the opportunity to invest in our culture! It's the only thing we have got as a heritage from the post-Soviet society." - says Viktor Gers, the citizen of the Russian world in the "Paulista" capital.
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