Bonderovo

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1830 — Founded as Ovetovanna (Promised) because it was given to freed serfs, Spiritual Christian Molokane (sektanty, sectarians), from Voronezh who built 9 houses, population 82. One founder, Bogdanoff, moved 4 km. east and founded the village of Bogdanovka.
1849 — 70 houses, population 430.
1850 — Name changed to Iudino (Judah), as exiled sectarian Juzaiers (Subbotniki) settled here from Central Russia.
1867 — Timofei Bonderov was exiled here where he worked as a teacher, and became known for corresponding with Lev N. Tolstoy. He wrote an essay about the spiritual value of working the land which he sent to Tolstoy.
1887 — Bonderov's essay: "Trudoliubie i tyneyadctvo" (Industry and Idleness), was printed by Tolstoy's publisher in London, Vladimir Chertkov of Free Age Press (Свободное слово)
1917+ — During Soviet times, Germans in Russia (Mennonites, etc.) were exiled here.
1933 - 1938 — 75 arrested for "counter-revolutionary crimes." 27 were shot. Survivors in prison camps 245 years total time. "Subbotnik prisoners during Soviet times:“The Iudino Case” of the 1930s" at URL: goo.gl/XiExWc
1958 — Name changed to Bonderovo
2000 — 815 houses, population 1,994.
2005 — A monument honoring T. Bonderov was placed (probably at the culture hall), and his translated letters with Tolstoy were published: Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors: an historical relationship, by Andrew Donskov, University of Ottawa, 2005.
www.subbotniki.net/Russia/Siberia/