Russia's second city.The 40 people receiving the vaccine are currently housed by the charity.According to official figures there are 15,000 homeless people in the former imperial capital, out of a total population of five million.Nochlezhka believes the real figure is at least double that."Some people have been saying controversial things about the vaccine, but I think there are more advantages than negatives," 57-year-old Galina Ivanovna told AFP, after receiving the first dose of the vaccine."I'm pretty happy to do it," she added.Fellow recipient Aleksandr Suvorov, 60, echoed her sentiment, adding that the vaccine was a good thing "because the situation is complicated with coronavirus".An NGO has already launched a similar initiative for.