tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post2655852586421143539..comments2024-03-29T00:47:42.684-06:00Comments on Growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church): Two Districts Discontinued in RussiaMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030323360917985701noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-11502691856126737172013-07-22T13:12:32.041-06:002013-07-22T13:12:32.041-06:00The Novosibirsk district was created about a year ...The Novosibirsk district was created about a year and a half ago with the goal to become a stake within 2-3 years. Although it covers a big area it seems to be successful so far. However, the leadership drain for leaders called to district callings is quite a problem.symphonyofdissenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16431032360870774004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-69019431640060637992013-04-30T11:23:00.890-06:002013-04-30T11:23:00.890-06:00The Toliatti District was actually comprised of on...The Toliatti District was actually comprised of only two branches in the city itself (the third branch in the city was combined with the other two in 2012). Ulyanovsk was just a mission branch.<br /><br />I'm still wondering what the closure of these 4 districts means for the aggressive consolidation strategy that Europe East Area leaders have pursued over the past 5 years. Except for Toliatti, no branches were discontinued or combined in this organizational rearrangement. In the past, district closures or consolidations have usually been accompanied by consolidating several branches in a city into one or two. This time around, the branches were largely left alone. These district closures to me seem more targeted at strengthening the existing branches rather than consolidating small, possibly weak branches. Are we starting to reach the end of unit consolidations in Europe East?<br /><br />It's also interesting to note that two of the remaining districts-Novosibirsk and Saratov-are the districts, from what I understand, that Church leaders think will become the next stakes in Russia.<br /><br /><br />Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06435149941036350142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-59618560331093552112013-04-30T03:44:12.923-06:002013-04-30T03:44:12.923-06:00Rostov might be the most surprising because it was...Rostov might be the most surprising because it was a district with a fairly large number of tightly compact branches. I had wondered how close they were to becoming a stake. Volgograd as well.<br /><br />Samara was a district of 3 tightly packed branches. The Toliatti branch is not that far away from the Samara branches. I don't recall what branches were in the Toliatti district, but the closest branch to the Toliatti branch that is not one of the three that had been in the Samara district is the Ulyanovsk Branch about 200 km from Toliatti. So, I would not consider the Toliatti District to have been a tightly packed district.<br /><br />Four districts were dissolved, 2 in each of 2 missions. It is possible that what motivated the Rostov-na-Donu Mission President may have been different from what motivated the Samara Mission President.Mike Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10025612146815804945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-17064575638983541552013-04-29T16:27:13.611-06:002013-04-29T16:27:13.611-06:00Ray,
Good point. It may also be a decision by t...Ray, <br /><br />Good point. It may also be a decision by the mission president that it is better to not have the missionaries running a branch, even if it means that there are not discticts.John Pack Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05086707132348039415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-49607229971995570312013-04-29T11:01:19.534-06:002013-04-29T11:01:19.534-06:00The discontinuation has less to do with geography ...The discontinuation has less to do with geography and more to do with membership and leadership. The Samara, Toliatti, Rostov, and Volgograd districts were all centralized in urban areas without any far-flung branches. The Novosibirsk District, on the other hand, was reorganized in recent years to cover a massive geographic area (Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk). I'm not sure what the exact situation was in the discontinued districts, but area and mission leaders likely wanted to put their experienced district leaders to work in the individual branches where they were more needed. <br /><br />Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06435149941036350142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-116557548364309462013-04-29T09:40:32.428-06:002013-04-29T09:40:32.428-06:00Perhaps another reason for district consolidation ...Perhaps another reason for district consolidation would be leadership moving away from the area--perhaps to the major cities for better job opportunities or even to another country. Even if district leaders didn't move but just branch leadership moved away, district leaders would have to step in to run the branches and no one would be available to staff the districts (although missionaries have been used in years past to run branches). Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01629100796960009292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-22708447253918422562013-04-28T20:19:30.961-06:002013-04-28T20:19:30.961-06:00There are two large issues, and I think some of ou...There are two large issues, and I think some of our discussion is not making it clear which one we are talking about. There is geographical largeness and there is unit or membership largeness. I wonder if the mission leadership may have decided that some districts were too geographically large to be effectively administered. It might be quite difficult for distirct leadership to effectively oversee the church in far-flung districts.John Pack Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05086707132348039415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-82745818718053337682013-04-27T20:43:42.094-06:002013-04-27T20:43:42.094-06:00And the Samara District also being discontinued as...And the Samara District also being discontinued as well? Something is going on in Russia. Perhaps these districts were too spread out to be effective. I don't know.<br /><br />Two of the three remaining districts in Russia are large with a lot of branches in them:<br /><br />9 in Novosibirsk<br />9 in Saratov<br />4 in Yekaterinburg<br /><br />One branch in each district is an administrative branch with one or more groups under the branch.Mike Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10025612146815804945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-36844149842312084832013-04-26T13:10:56.958-06:002013-04-26T13:10:56.958-06:00I am wondering what is going on that 3 of the 7 di...I am wondering what is going on that 3 of the 7 districts were discontinued and now there are a lot of branches directly reporting to missions. I know that some districts were merged some time ago, ostensibly to prepare for the creation of stakes.<br /><br />I can't remember which were discontinued back then, but I remember thinking the consolidated districts would have to be unwieldy.Mike Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10025612146815804945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-92151302740838040312013-04-24T16:05:48.887-06:002013-04-24T16:05:48.887-06:00I have 7 missions, 2 stakes, 4 districts, 12 wards...I have 7 missions, 2 stakes, 4 districts, 12 wards, and 86 branches in Russia.<br /><br />Russia Moscow Mission:<br />Kaluga Branch<br />Lipetsk Branch<br />Lotoshino Branch<br />Nizhegorodsky Tsentralny Branch<br />Nizhegorodsky Verkhny Branch<br />Russia Moscow Mission Branch<br />Ryazan Branch<br />Smolensk Branch<br />Tula Branch<br />Tverskoy Branch<br />Voronezh Branch<br />Yaroslavsky Branch<br /><br />Russia Novosibirsk Mission<br />Novosibirsk Russia District( Barnaul Altaisky Branch, Krasnoyarsk Branch, Novokuznetsky Branch. Novosibirsk 1st Branch, Novosibirsk 2nd Branch, Novosibirsk Russia District Branch, Omsk 1st Branch, Omsk 2nd Branch, Tomsk Branch)<br />Almaty Branch<br />Russia Novosibirsk Mission Branch<br /><br />Russia Rostov-na-Donu Mission:<br />Krasnodar Sentralny Branch<br />Novocherkassk Branch<br />Novorossiysk Branch<br />Rostov Selmash Branch<br />Rostov Severny Branch<br />Rostov Tsentralny Branch<br />Russia Rostov-na-Donu Mission Branch<br />Shakhty Branch<br />Sochi Tsentralny Branch<br />Stavropol Branch<br />Taganrog Branch<br />Tuapse Branch<br />Volgograd Krasniarmesky Branch<br />Volgograd Traktorny Branch<br />Volgograd Tsentralny Branch<br />Volzhsky Branch<br />Zapadny Branch<br /><br />Russia Samara Mission:<br />Samara Russia District (Avrory Branch, Bezymyansky Branch, Novokuybishevsk Branch)<br />Saratov Russia District (Balakovo Branch, Dachny Branch, Engels Branch, Marks Branch, Penza Branch, Saratov Russia District Branch, Solnichny Branch, Volzhski Branch<br />Zavodskoy Branch)<br />Izhevsk Branch<br />Kazan' Branch<br />Orenburg Branch<br />Russia Samara Mission Branch<br />Toliatti Branch<br />Ulianovsk Branch<br /><br />Russia St Petersburg Mission:<br />Kaliningrad Branch<br />Novgorod Branch<br />Petrozavodsk Branch<br />Pskov Branch<br />Russia St Petersburg Mission Branch<br /><br />Russia Vladivostok Mission:<br />Irkutsk Branch<br />Khabarovsk Branch<br />Nakhodka Branch<br />Russia Vladivostok Mission Branch<br />Ulan-Ude Branch<br />Ussuriysk Branch<br />Vladivostok Branch<br />Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Branch<br /><br />Russia Yekaterinburg Mission:<br />Yekaterinburg Russia District (Chelyabinsk Branch, Yekaterinburg 1st Branch, Yekaterinburg 2nd Branch, Yekaterinburg Russia District Branch)<br />Kurgan Tsentralny Branch<br />Perm Branch<br />Russia Yekaterinburg Mission Branch<br />Tyumen Tsentralny Branch<br />Ufa Branch<br /><br />Moscow Russia Stake:<br />Arbatskii Ward<br />Kakhovski Ward<br />Moscow Ward (English)<br />Rechnoy Ward<br />Sokolnicheskii Ward<br />Zelenogradsky Ward<br />Perovo Branch<br />Podolsk Branch<br />Universitetski Branch<br /><br />St Petersburg Russia Stake:<br />Avtovo Ward<br />Kolpino Ward<br />Nevsky Ward<br />Shuvalovsky Ward<br />St Petersburg Tsentralny Ward<br />Vyborg Ward<br />Gatchina Branch<br />Petergof Branch<br />Sestroretsk BranchMike Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10025612146815804945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786908254617003646.post-91178425499217587902013-04-23T18:54:54.036-06:002013-04-23T18:54:54.036-06:00Apparently another district, the Toliatti Russia d...Apparently another district, the Toliatti Russia district, was discontinued as well.Downtownchrisbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10675447366787210957noreply@blogger.com