The civil marriage allows the selection of a partner duhovnitsu (духовницу) by the will of God or a leader (prophet), in this case family ties are not considered.
They so highly appreciated their workmanship and skill that in July 1913 two ships "18 de Julio" and "Taongarupa" brought 300 families to the coast of the river Uruguay 164 kilometers from Montevideo.
In the end of the 1920s, Lubkov arranged for a land grant in eastern Rostov oblast, north of other Spiritual Christians (Dukhobortsy, Molokane, Pryguny) in the Tselinsky District.
An about 300 people moved from Uruguay to the Soviet Union, to their village commune along the Manych River which they called New Israel.
During the World War II the New Israel immigrants sent aid in the form of sweaters through the Red Cross back to the Soviet Union.
These repressions however did not impact the Uruguay-Moscow relationship, as seen from the fact that Moscow in 1979 put 14 turbines of 135,000 kilowatts each onto the Salto-Grande Power Plant.