Subsequently, New Astrea Lodge was established on St John's Day, 24 June 1993, in St. Petersburg.
The consecration was performed by the GLNF, with the support of other regular masonic authorities, including the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE), who extended official recognition to the new Russian body within its first year of operation.
The GLoR currently has lodges in cities across Russia and in some neighbouring states, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Voronezh, Saransk, Shakhty, Kazan, Krasnodar, Sochi, Perm, Minsk, Nizhny Novgorod.
[7] In early 2013 the Caucasus District of the GLoR was established, which consisted of two lodges, one in Georgia and one in Abkhazia.
On 14 March 2015 the Caucasus District, with headquarters in Tbilisi, was consecrated as an independent Grand Lodge of Georgia.