The year of the Sahaja Yoga Center establishment:

February 16, 1990, in half a year after Shri Mataji had conducted the first Public Programs in Saint-Petersburg and Moscow.

Alexander Solodyankin was the founder of the group. His cousin, Tamara Sastamoinen, who lived in Saint-Petersburg at that time, called him and said, “Come. It is just what you need”. Having received Self-Realisation, Alexander Solodyankin actively started to give Self-Realization to everybody who he met and organized the first group of Sahaja Yogis.

Public Programs with Shri Mataji:

Shri Mataji visited Togliatti each year in 1992-1996.

Programme in Togliatti, 22nd September 1995

The present number of Sahaja Yogis in Togliatti: about 2 thousand people.