 Circles in Moscow (Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Lev Tikhomirov, Mikhail Frolenko), Odessa (Felix Volkhovsky, Andrei Zhelyabov), Kiev (Yakov Stefanovich, Pavel Axelrod) and other cities sided with the Petersburg cell on a federal basis.Altogether, the Tchaikovtsy numbered around 100 participants.In 1872, the Tchaikovtsy began organizing circles of workers with the purpose of training propagandists for work in the countryside.