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Vitaliy Ivanovich Prolinskiy was a pastor and administrator who played a key role as mediator for the Adventist Church in Ukraine in time of conflict.
Karl Alexandrovich Reifschneider was a pioneer missionary, pastor, and administrator who worked in Latvia, Estonia, Poland, and Russia.
The German colonists in Bessarabia (Moldova) distributed Adventist tracts, thus facilitating the spread of the Adventist message in this territory. In the summer of 1894, H. J. Löbsack visited, by invitation, settlements Neuburg near Odessa and Tarutino in Bessarabia where some of the Baptist brethren began to celebrate the Sabbath.
Euro-Asia Division Moldova Country (Based on SDA membership)
Iosif (Jȃzeps) Aleksandrovich Seniavski contributed to the development of the Seventh-day Adventist work in Moldova.
The Southern Kazakstan Mission was formerly known as the Southern Kazakhstan Conference. It was organized in 2000 and reorganized in 2010.
The Southern Union Mission is a part of the Euro-Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Organized in 1990 and reorganized in 1994, 2010, and 2012, it has its headquarters in Almaty; Kazakhstan.
During the 1930s, the exiled German Adventists further organized the first Adventist congregation. The Russian Adventists appeared in Tajikistan in 1931. The pioneers included the families of Pavel Zhukov (born in 1905) and Vasiliy Borisov (born in 1896), who were exiled from Transcaucasia. They were followed by other exiled Adventists.
Euro-Asia Division Tajikistan Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Tajikistan Mission was organized in 2002 and changed to a field in 2012.
The Turkestan Mission was a church unit in Central Asia that operated from 1909 to 1925, when it became the Central Asian Conference.
Turkmenistan is a country situated in Central Asia and washed in the west by the Caspian Sea. The first official data about members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Central Asia appeared in the published reports of Russian Union for the second quarter of 1908 and mentioned a company of Seventh-day Adventists in the city of Ashkhabad consisting of six members.
Euro-Asia Division Turkmenistan Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Turkmenistan Field is a Central Asian church unit that comprises Turkmenistan. It was organized in 2002.
The first official reference to Seventh-day Adventists in Uzbekistan dates back to 1906, when a group of believers settled in villages of the Khodjent District in the Samarkand Region.
Euro-Asia Division Uzbekistan Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Uzbekistan Mission was organized in 2002 and changed to a field in 2010.
Ludwig Ludwigowich Wojtkiewicz served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a pastor and administrator in Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova.
Nikolai Arkhipovich Yaruta was a pastor, evangelist, and church administrator who facilitated the development and growth of the Adventist church in Moldova.
Vasily Vasilievich Zhukov was a pastor and church administrator in Ukraine.
Gustav Ivanovich Zierath was an Adventist pastor, evangelist, and church administrator in Russia.