The cult has its own chronology and calendar, according to which the Era of the New Dawn began on the conception of Vissarion, i. e. from 1960. They celebrate three holidays: April 14 - the Day of Mother-Earth (also - day of Vissarion's Conception), August 18 - the Day of the Fall of the Kingdom of Power and of Good Fruit (also the day of the August coup in 1991 during which, according to a falsified tale told by a witness, Vissarion began his preaching in Moscow), and Jan. 14 - Birthday of the Vissarion Christ.
About ten years ago when the stream of new adepts coming to Siberia has began to dry out, Vissarion announced the creation of "The Family" - a sort of inner elite circle of the cult. It became clear that real salvation could only be reached in the Family. The members of this group are told to sell their house in one of the villages in the Zone, donate the money to Vissarion, denounce any private property, and move to the Dry Mountain where, on the top, is the most possible holy place on Earth - the Abode of Dawn, where, surrounded by his bodyguards,Vissarion lives.