The Grand Lodge of Russia (GLoR) is the Regular Masonic jurisdiction for Russia. The Grand Lodge was established on 24 June 1995. It was the first national grand lodge to be created in the country since the closure of the original Russian grand lodges in 1917, when Freemasonry was banned by the Bolsheviks in the wake of the October Revolution.
The first works of the lodge "Harmony" No. 698 GLNF in Moscow, September 7, 1992
Deputy Grand Master of GLR - Viktor Belyavsky
Andrei Bogdanov (politician)
Andrey Vladimirovich Bogdanov is a Russian politician. He is the chairman of the Russian Party of Freedom and Justice and a prominent Freemason, serving as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia since 2007. As a candidate for the 2008 presidential election, he received 968,344 votes or 1.30% of the Russian electorate.
Bogdanov in 2018