Promotion and consulting of the regional federation Volgograd and of the Oblast central cooperative; support to training and advanced training schemes (trainee courses, training in credit and saving business, training of multiplicators); support to cooperative audit; development of credit and deposit manuals; support to the regional link-up system / link-up services (also for commodity and service cooperatives); legal advise: Credit Cooperative Law; set-up of bakers purchasing cooperatives; establishment of two training bakeries (Volgograd, Moscow)