Not an empty field with survey pegs, but a settlement that has been alive for twenty years: 350 hectares, more than 200 family domains, families who live here through the winter, their own school, their own roads. 100 km from Yekaterinburg and from Chelyabinsk; 3 km from the M5 federal highway.
One hectare. A living fence around it, an orchard, a grove, a pond, a house. A space that stays with your children and their children.
The idea of kin's domains comes from Vladimir Megre's books. For most readers, years pass between “I have read this” and “I live here”: it is unclear where to look for land, how to register it, what to do about electricity and the road in February — and, above all, who your neighbours will turn out to be.
“Bolshaya Medveditsa” has existed since August 2005. In twenty years it has grown roads that are ploughed in winter, electricity on every domain, fibre internet, a family school, a fourteen-hectare common place — and neighbours: software developers, engineers, builders, teachers, musicians, who arrived here holding the same book.
What you will not find here: a commune, shared property, a religious community, a guru, compulsory practices or “development contributions”. You buy your land, for yourself, freehold. The charter is spoken rather than written, and it contains one restriction: keeping animals is welcome — for milk, eggs, wool — but not for meat.
The distance between “buying land” and “starting to live” is a road in winter, power at the plot and a working connection. Here all three exist and have been working for years.
From 1 hectare (about 2.5 acres). Designated for private household or garden use, with residential construction permitted and no size limit on the house. Boundaries follow the landscape; 8–12 metres between neighbouring domains.
Electrification is done. A grid connection of 15 kW or more per domain. You can add solar panels, a wind turbine or a generator on top of that.
High-speed, across the settlement. IT specialists work remotely from here full-time — this is a real working connection, not two bars of mobile signal.
Boreholes — the one at the common place goes down 68 metres; a well can also be registered. Heating: a wood stove, an electric boiler or an autonomous system.
A concrete road from the highway, gravel roads inside. Snow has been cleared by our own machinery since 2014; a grader levels the roads in summer. One single entrance with automatic gates, an 8 km moat around the perimeter, video surveillance.
9,000 ₽ a year — under €10 a month — for all shared infrastructure. There is no management company: roads, gates and the common place are maintained by the residents themselves.
This is not an artist's impression of a subdivision: the polygons below are the actual registered boundaries of the domains. Click any plot to see its cadastral number and area, and to open its record in Russia's public cadastral map. The entrance, the service road and the protective moat are marked (the road and entrance positions are approximate).
Houses people live in. Roads people drive in February. Children who grew up here. All photographs are from the settlement — click to enlarge.
The honest answer is “as a rule yes, with exceptions and one extra procedure”. Here is what those words mean, with the sources, so that you can check them rather than take our word for it.
Russian law allows foreign citizens to own land. Two exceptions matter for anyone buying rural land. First, agricultural land in commercial agricultural turnover may be held by foreigners only on a lease. Second, foreign citizens, stateless persons and foreign legal entities may not own land located in border territories, listed in Presidential Decree No. 26 of 9 January 2011.
Kaslinsky district of the Chelyabinsk region is not on that border list. For our region the decree names only seven municipalities, all of them on the Kazakhstan frontier, hundreds of kilometres to the south of us. And the plots here are individual household and garden plots held by private persons — a category whose sale and purchase is governed by the Land Code rather than by the Act on the turnover of agricultural land.
Since March 2022, transactions that transfer ownership of real estate and involve persons connected with states designated by Russia as “unfriendly” fall under a special clearance regime (Presidential Decree No. 81 of 1 March 2022): such a deal may require a permit from the Government Commission for the Control of Foreign Investment. Whether it applies to you depends on your citizenship and residency, and the rules have been amended several times since. This is exactly the point that has to be checked for your specific case before anything is signed — and it is the reason we work with a lawyer on every foreign purchase rather than sending you a contract by e-mail.
A sale contract, registration of the transfer of title with Rosreestr (the state register), and an EGRN extract in your name showing the cadastral number, the boundaries and the area of your hectare. The same document any Russian buyer receives. You will also need a Russian taxpayer number (INN) and notarised translations of your passport; a notarised power of attorney can cover part of the process if you cannot be present for every step.
This page summarises the general legal framework as of 2026 and is not legal advice. Legislation and the clearance rules change; your citizenship, tax residency and personal circumstances all matter. Before any payment, insist on a written opinion from a Russian lawyer — we will introduce you to one, and you are equally welcome to bring your own.
Buying a plot does not by itself give you the right to live in Russia — ownership and immigration status are handled separately. Many people therefore start by coming as visitors, seeing the place, and only then deciding.
There is a dedicated route for people in your situation. Presidential Decree No. 702 of 19 August 2024 provides humanitarian support to foreigners who share traditional Russian spiritual and moral values and who are moving away from the ideology of their own state: it allows a private visa of up to 90 days, and an application for a temporary residence permit outside the annual quota and without the Russian language, history and law examination. It applies to nationals of the countries on a list approved by the Government in September 2024.
Russian consulates publish the procedure and the document list themselves — start there, and treat anything you read on a settlement's website, including this paragraph, as a pointer rather than as advice.
What we can do: send you an invitation to visit, meet you at the bus stop or off the highway, put you up at the guest house, and connect you with residents who have already been through the paperwork.
If any of these is a deal-breaker, it is far better to discover it while reading a web page than after buying a hectare in the Ural forest.
This is the Southern Urals. January nights reach −30 °C, snow lies from November to April. The roads are cleared and people live here through it, but a house here has to be built for that climate — not for a Mediterranean summer.
Almost everything outside the settlement — the registry office, the notary, the clinic in Tyubuk, the neighbouring village shop — happens in Russian. Some residents speak English; the district does not. People do arrive without the language and learn it, but they arrive knowing that.
A hectare with power and a road is a beginning. Building takes a season or several, and the first year is usually spent in a temporary structure. Local builders here do this professionally, and there is no obligation to hire them.
Two hundred families share one entrance, one set of roads and one common place. Meeting the residents is a required part of the process, not a formality — we do not sell land on the day of a first visit, to anyone.
Telegram or WhatsApp on +7 922 615-54-15, or the form below. Tell us where you are writing from and what you are looking for. We answer in Russian and, with a little patience, in English.
We send an invitation for your visa if you need one, meet you off the Yekaterinburg–Chelyabinsk highway or at the “Allaki” bus stop, and you stay at the guest house. Summer festivals are the easiest time to come: several days beside the residents tell you more than any website.
By the forest edge, facing the open field, closer to the common place or further from the road. We walk the boundaries with you and check the plot's record in the state register.
A lawyer confirms your specific situation, including the 2022 clearance question. Then: taxpayer number, notarised translations, sale contract, registration with Rosreestr, and an EGRN extract in your name.
Power connection, internet, a borehole. Then the part the books are actually about: the living fence, the orchard, the grove, the pond — and a space that outlasts you.
Freehold. A sale contract, registration of title with Rosreestr, a cadastral number and an EGRN extract in your name. It is not a lease, not a share in a cooperative and not a membership that can be revoked.
It depends on where the plot sits — at the forest edge, facing the field, or near the common place — and the available plots change. We quote the current list and prices in conversation, together with each plot's exact position on the plan.
No. Russia has no “golden visa” tied to real estate; ownership and immigration status are separate. A separate route exists under Presidential Decree No. 702 of 19 August 2024 for people who share traditional Russian values — see the section above — but it is applied for on its own terms, through a Russian consulate.
You should come at least once — we do not sell land to people who have never seen it or met the neighbours. Beyond that, parts of the paperwork can be handled through a notarised power of attorney. Your lawyer will tell you which parts, for your case.
Residential construction is permitted and the settlement sets no size limit. Families do live here through the whole year: the road from the M5 highway is concrete, internal roads have been cleared by our own machinery since 2014, and there is grid power and fibre internet. Formal registration of residence depends on the land category of the specific plot — we check that with you before the deal.
The charter is spoken rather than written, and it holds one restriction: animals are welcome and encouraged — for milk, eggs and wool — but not raised for meat. Otherwise: respect for the neighbours, for the land and for shared agreements. There is no shared religion here; residents come from different traditions and views.
A family school runs at the centre of the settlement, from a preparatory year upward, teaching from September to April, with parents and teachers organising it jointly. The nearest state school and extracurricular centres are in the village of Tyubuk, about 10 km away.
The settlement lies in the Kaslinsky district of the Chelyabinsk region, beside the Allaki lakes, 100 km from Yekaterinburg and 100 km from Chelyabinsk, 3 km off the M5 federal highway. Both cities have international airports (Koltsovo and Balandino). Intercity buses run daily; we can meet you at the “Allaki” stop.
Leave your contacts and we will tell you which hectares are free, what they cost, and exactly what the purchase would involve for someone with your citizenship. Or write straight away to +7 922 615-54-15 on WhatsApp or Telegram.
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