I almost owned a square inch in Alaska.
2.5 acres isn’t much.
Populate it with death row inmates who will then have to learn to farm to survive.
If they made it fifty hectares, they might have some takers.
The would allow a big enough unit to make at least a subsistence living off the land, and a worthwhile piece of land to justify later consolidation int a really workable agricultural enterprise. With enough agricultural enterprises, an industrial base and demand for non-agricultural employment, they will come.
The land beyond the Urals was a frontier once before, when HORDES of German peasants were lured there for promises of land, and there was a large ethnic German population before the royal family was deposed and the Soviet Union was formed.
A large part of the Kulaks who were liquidated by Stalin in the 1920’s and 1930’s, when farm collectives were being formed, were descendants of these same German immigrants.
I think 2.5 Hectares equals a little over 6 Acres.