Okunevo, Omsk Oblast

[1] The majority of the inhabitants of the village are adherents of various of these religions: Rodnovery, Ynglism, Roerichism, Babajism (a branch of Shaivism), Krishnaism, Vedism and others.

[1] The locality hosts places of worship for various religions:[1] Okunevo began to acquire popularity as a sacred site in 1991, after it was chosen by Rasma Rozitis (Radjani), a Lithuanian disciple of the Babajist movement of Shaivism, as the supposed site of an ancient Vedic temple of the deity Hanuman according to the movement's narrative, which, like other Hindu movements, considers Russia to be the "country of the sages", and Siberia to be the cradle of all Indo-European peoples from where they eventually made their way to Hindustan.

[1] Rozitis chose Okunevo in the region of Omsk because of the region's name's assonance with the holy syllable Om, the sound of divine energy in Hinduism; because of the names of the river and the city of Tara located in the Muromtsevsky District, corresponding to the name of the Indian goddess Tara; and because of the presence of the Okunevo Archaeological Complex, an ancient ritual site.

[1] The Ynglists believe Okunevo to be the location of an ancient religious centre of the Aryans of Belovodye where original Aryan knowledge was preserved even after Christianisation, and secretly passed down generation by generation eventually coming to Aleksandr Khinevich, the founder of the Ynglist Church.

[3] The Okunevo Archaeological Complex dates back to the Bronze Age and early Iron Age and includes an ancient sacrificial altar on the border between two climatic zones, steppe and taiga.