Supreme Soviet of Russia
After encountering Lutherans in Soviet-era Estonia, Lytkin's church career began with his 1987 baptism according to the Lutheran rite in Tallinn, Estonia. After the Supreme Soviet of Russia on 6 September 1991 officially recognized the independence of Estonia, he began preaching Christianity according to the Lutheran tradition in Akademgorodok, a suburb of Novosibirsk, Siberia. He later created additional Lutheran communities in Khakassia, Buryatia, Tomsk, Omsk, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Sverdlovsk and Chita, as well as in the Krasnoyarsk territory.