An historic day for Rotarians has been celebrated on June 17 - RI District 2220, the first Russian Rotary District has been chartered. It includes all Clubs of Western Russia and Urals, the territory where almost 90% of Russians live. The Chain symbolizing the rank of Governor has been personally placed on DGE Andrey Danilenko by the President 2005-2006 of Rotary International, Carl Wilhelm Stenhammar.
More than 300 Rotarians gathered to celebrate this turning point in their lives, along with Rotarians from Western and Eastern Russia, Sweden, the USA, France, Australia, Italy, Germany, Finland, Austria, Romania, Spain, Moldova, Serbia, Slovenia, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Canada, Madagascar and other countries. Among Rotarian authorities Vice President RI Serge Gouteyron and Board member Bob Stuart.
Previously Western Russia was carved up and put under three Rotary Districts, based in Finland and Sweden. The relevant District Governors were there too, together with the Governor of 5010 District (Eastern Russia, Alaska and Canada )
Almost 50 Russian Clubs that formerly belonged to these three Scandinavian Districts are now included in the new Russian District 2220:
| Arkhangelsk | Cherepovets-Sheksna | Dmitrov |
| Dubna | Ekaterinburg | Ivanovo |
| Izhevsk | Izhevsk-Udmurtia | Kaliningrad |
| Kambarka | Kandalaksha | Kazan' |
| Konakovo | Krasnodar | Kursk |
| Moscow | Moscow Capital | Moscow East |
| Moscow Humboldt | Moscow International | Moscow Kremlin |
| Moscow Renaissance | Moscow Rossica | Murmansk |
| Naryan Mar | Nizhnij Novgorod | Novgorod |
| Perm' | Pskov | Petrozavodsk |
| Rostov on Don | Rybinsk | Saint Petersburg |
| Saint Petersbourg - International | Saint Petersbourg - Neva | Saint Petersburg - White Nights |
| Syktyvkar "Polar star" | Samara | Saratov-Center |
| Togliatti | Tver' | Ulyanovsk |
| Vladimir | Volgograd | Volzhskij |
| Voronezh | Voronezh-Center | Vyatka |
Andrei Danilenko, the first District Governor of Western Russia's 2220 District, has been a Rotarian over 10 years ; he is a successful entrepreneur in the field of agroindustry and zootechny, and has a clear understanding of what does the new District need in order to grow stronger and to make of Rotary Clubs a protagonist of Russian community life : for the Russian Rotary it is so very important to set the right tone, to work on the spread-out of Rotary clubs even into small lesser known cities and towns.
In a territory where more than 100 million people live, for the time being there are but 50 Clubs: the vital target of the District team is that of increasing the number of Clubs, during the next three years, adding at least 30 ones to the Rotarian family, thus increasing the number of members in the existing Clubs, and last, but not least, ensuring a satisfactory level of Rotary training
We call our foreign fellows, Rotary Districts, Clubs and ICCs, to support the action of Andrei and of his team by strengthening ties with Russian Clubs, by encouraging friends in Russian cities to set up new Rotary Clubs, to join the great family of people sincerely devoted to service. 
By twinning your Clubs with the Russian ones you’ll help us to show our new fellows all over Russia what Rotary is, which must be the role of Clubs in the relevant cities and towns, how do they need to entertain relationship with the municipal authorities
During Conference “Rotary in Russia” the horse “Beslan-Izbrannik” has been officially introduced to participants: donated by Rotary (the ICC France-Russia and Rotary Club Moscow Renaissance) to the Moscow horseriding club for Physically Challenged People (MKKI) thanks to Rotary Foundation Matching Grant 55125