About the book: 2007 / The deplorable situation in Russian villages is known to everyone. After the collapse of the large-scale state planning system, tens and hundreds of thousands of farms disappeared, there was a massive outflow of the population from rural areas, and the last valuables were stolen. Correcting the situation is impossible without effective self-government in the province. The Institute of Public and Humanitarian Initiatives (IOGI), organized in 1997, set itself the goal of reviving rural areas of the Arkhangelsk region and achieved unique results. The optimistic experience of IOGI should be taken into account and adopted by everyone involved in the problem of reviving the Russian village.