NOVOSIBIRSK, December 17 – RIA Novosti, Elena Zhukova. The authorities talk about the senseless waste of funds on providing utilities to sparsely populated villages and maintaining roads to them, but residents refuse to move from there. RIA Novosti correspondents went to one of these Novosibirsk villages, where seven people live, and asked the residents what the reason was for their reluctance to move to more civilized places.
In the footsteps of Stolypin: a collective farm of a new format near NovosibirskAlexander Leichtling created an agricultural enterprise that did not depend on the price of grain and meat, or on the authorities and bank loans. And also, at the same time, he returned the dying village of Ukrainka to the map of the region.The village of Berezovka is located in the Bolotninsky district Novosibirsk region. It is 160 kilometers from Novosibirsk and ten from the nearest settlement, the village of Acha.
This is exactly the kind of settlement the regional governor recently spoke about the tenacity of its residents. According to him, the authorities are ready to help people move from dying villages. This will be economically beneficial for the local budget, since the need to support the livelihoods of small villages will be removed, and it will ultimately be more convenient for people in more developed villages.
“And one family says: I’m not going anywhere. It’s probably possible to just make a decision, but it’s not right...”, Vasily Yurchenko gave an example at one of the recent press conferences.
And in total in the Novosibirsk region, according to data at the beginning of the year, there are about 140 villages in which less than 20 people live. And most people, especially retirees, do not want to leave their familiar places.
Born and married here
We stop in Berezovka: there is not a soul on the snowy Tsentralnaya Street. Near one of the houses there is a payphone and the only lantern in the village. Locals They joke that if it weren’t for him, the village would not be visible in the evenings. The village consists of four houses. No store, no pharmacy.
But seven residents of Berezovka are quite accustomed to doing without it. And proposals from the Achinsk village council to move to Acha are regularly refused.
“All that’s left is what they couldn’t take apart. There used to be a big farm here,” says Elena Eisner, pointing to a metal frame in the middle of a field not far from the village. Elena works as the head of the post office in the village of Acha, Bolotninsky district, and brings pensions and food for her parents and father-in-law to her native Berezovka.
Together with Elena we go to her parents Sergei Efimovich and Faina Vasilyevna Malinovsky, who live in a house right at the entrance to the village. The house is solid - a large kitchen with a Russian stove, two spacious rooms.
“No, we won’t go. We’ll live here. I don’t like what to do there. I’ve lived here for 57 years, why do I need that Acha, or Elfimovka or Sosnovka,” says Faina Vasilievna.
She came to Berezovka from the Vladimirov region in 1956 after a distribution college to work as a livestock specialist. Here I met my husband - I was driving in the evening from milking from a neighboring village, and Sergei Efimovich was returning on a timber truck and gave the girl a lift. Since then they have lived together in Berezovka.
Sergei Efimovich proudly says that he was born in Berezovka, and during the first census, which was carried out before the war, 80 people lived in Ache, and more than 400 in Berezovka.
He remembers that at that time people from Belarus came to the village, they received land here on which they could grow grain and livestock. For a long time the village flourished - there was not only a large collective farm, but each family kept cattle for themselves.
“There was such a queue to hand over to the meat processing plant in Bolotnoye that we took the bulls to hand over to Novosibirsk to the meat processing plant, but we didn’t have time to process them - all the shops, counters, everything was littered with meat and sausage. A special sausage was prepared for the Novosibirsk regional committee in Bolotnoye, a car from the regional party committee came, they loaded everything and took it to Novosibirsk,” recalls Sergei Efimovich.
First they broke down the school...
According to him, the village began to die after the school was destroyed - this happened in the 1970s. Children began to be taken from Berezovka to neighboring Acha, they grew up and began to move there or to big cities- Novosibirsk and Yurga. After some time, the village club, a place where they once held dances and showed films, was also closed.
But the biggest blow to the village, adds Faina Vasilievna, was dealt during perestroika, when they began to reduce the number of livestock. Gradually the large farm died, and with it there was no work and no prospects for the village.
The couple sigh, remembering their own household. They say that they haven’t seen their local police officer for ten years - and they don’t even know his name. That’s why they even stopped keeping sheep - visiting “tourists” stole them, and elderly people could not protect their property in any way. But they repeat that they won’t leave here anyway.
All children bring
The next house on Tsentralnaya Street is a two-apartment and well-appointed house. It has running water, heating and a bath. An elderly man, a former cattle farmer, lives in one of the apartments. But he didn’t want to communicate, he didn’t even open the gate. He recently buried his wife and, as his neighbors explain, he is better off alone now.
And the neighbors are Vasily Avgustovich and Nina Nikolaevna Eisner, Elena’s father-in-law and mother-in-law. They moved to this house about six years ago, when there were no neighbors left on the street where they lived before.
“What am I going to do in Acha? I’m used to this land, I got into such an apartment - all the amenities. But in Acha they won’t give me something like this,” says Vasily Avgustovich.
He came to the village as a child - in 1941 he was evacuated here from the Volga region with his German parents.
Nina Nikolaevna agrees with her husband. According to her, she is not at all bored in the village, despite the absence of a store, club and other usual settlements establishments. Children and grandchildren do not forget; they regularly bring food, newspapers, and medicines.
“Berezovka! What kind of friendly, hard-working people lived here, I want to cry. Not like now. We are afraid that (the door) will be hooked,” Nina Nikolaevna sighs, but when asked about the move, she shakes her head negatively.
“If a rich man would be found, he would upset Berezovka and people would come,” sighs Vasily Avgustovich.
Neighbor Olga Litvinova comes to visit the Eisner couple - she and her husband Vasily are the only residents of Berezovka who have not yet reached retirement age. Neighborhood get-togethers, along with watching TV, which only has five channels, are popular pastimes here.
With my horse
Olga, having discovered the journalists, invites them to her place. Her house is on the outskirts, at the end of the street. On the road we pass a water tower that supplies water to residents, the building of a closed, or rather, collapsed club, and nothing else, the rest is wasteland.
She and her husband live mainly off the farm - they have cows, pigs, rabbits, chickens, a horse - as a means of transport. In summer there is a vegetable garden. Therefore, they are provided with basic products, the rest is bought in Ache by selling meat.
“We don’t live on a grand scale, but it’s enough,” says Olga. According to her, in such a sparsely populated village it is not scary, on the contrary, there is no one else, there is peace and quiet.
But she doesn’t see any particular benefits from moving to Acha. “You can’t buy medicine in Acha, I recently had a toothache, we arrived in Acha, and there wasn’t even analgin there, it was almost a flower, folk remedies to be treated. The paramedic there is good - she’ll do the bandaging and pull out the tooth herself, but there’s a problem with the medications,” says Olga.
Therefore, like the old-timers of the village, neither Olga nor her husband are going to leave Berezovka - they believe that it will not be better in any other place.
Clockwork Orange 12-03-2011 23:06
Are there any abandoned villages in our region? I really want to go stalking, but I can’t find information anywhere.
BBC 12-03-2011 23:32
There are many villages marked "non-residential" on the map.
On the website www.mbo4x4.ru you can see the album “The Lost World”, it also seems like we went to an uninhabited village
den911 13-03-2011 06:34
I'll check in
Expertrr 13-03-2011 06:51
quote: Originally posted by den911:
I'll check in
swalker.ru
5025Stas 13-03-2011 07:32
I’ll note that in the Kuibyshev and Barabinsky districts there are definitely such ones. Last summer I came across these, I won’t say the coordinates as it wasn’t before, all that remained of the villages were hills where houses used to be, and a couple of destroyed stoves.
If it weren't for JPS, we might have driven past and wouldn't have noticed. Download the maps of the General Staff, there are a lot of things there and you will be happy.
Kuroshup 13-03-2011 07:41
Eat. I saw an abandoned village with preserved houses in the Krasnozero region. Now you can go to any village and make films about the war.
VOYAGE*R 13-03-2011 07:48
I heard that there is a small village behind Tolmachevo
shunter 13-03-2011 08:45
quote: Originally posted by 5025Stas:
Download maps of the General Staff, there is a lot there
MAGNUM 26 13-03-2011 08:48
Are you interested in completely abandoned villages?
Kuroshup 13-03-2011 09:24
At the entrance to Iskitim there is an abandoned, unfinished hospital of 5-6 floors. You can climb there too. It’s more difficult with villages, abandoned houses are quickly dismantled, and all that remains of the village are memories in the form of cellar holes, gardens and nettles. If there are houses left somewhere, it’s only because a man with a nerve can’t get there.
LE0NID 13-03-2011 09:38
If someone were to ride in a car as a stalker, he would sit on the tail, along with a camera and one of the guns (as an option)
ernesto-ch 13-03-2011 09:42
interesting topic
VOYAGE*R 13-03-2011 10:17
There are many abandoned villages closer to Altai, but there aren’t any in the NSO, or I don’t know...
Umbert 13-03-2011 11:41
here the topic was about old NSO cards. We open them, compare them with new ones, and are surprised. my favorite hunting grounds used to be much more seriously populated... another thing is that there really is nothing left there....
and many more abandoned villages in Altai. in the area of the river I saw 1 reed (and came across it while getting lost on horseback), another 1 on the Uba River... there are a lot of them everywhere...
5025Stas 13-03-2011 12:55
quote: Download maps of the General Staff, there is a lot thereCan I send you a link in a PM? Thank you!
For maps of the General Staff, type in Yandex or Google download maps of the General Staff for JPS for free without registration" must be marked for free because many offer for money. There is one thing, but if you use them in the ZhPS, be sure to correct it, otherwise with native binding files the real place will not coincide with the place on the map. This is apparently protection from the Chinese or Pindos - if they attack, they will immediately get lost.
I spent a long time fiddling with reference points, but it turned out to be simpler, the coordinate grid drawn on the maps coincides with the real coordinates.
These cards really help out!!! ONE time I had to drive from Karasuk to Kuibyshev at night through forests on asphalt twice as far, there wouldn’t be enough gasoline.
If you can’t find it by searching, knock and we’ll look together
Rwester 17-03-2011 18:19
Children's games. Go to the Rechkunovsky sanatorium and feel like a stalker.
hunter_nsk 19-03-2011 22:39
Ooo! Let's. Can you send it to me by email?
Umbert 20-03-2011 11:36
I want it too!
maximus77 20-03-2011 13:27
klest 20-03-2011 13:29
Now they will dig up so many treasures!!!
Amfibia-2 10-12-2011 13:10
Please provide links to maps of the General Staff. Thank you in advance [email protected]
Expertrr 10-12-2011 16:52
quote: Originally posted by Amfibia-2:
Please provide links to maps of the General Staff. Thank you in advance [email protected]
Don't do it either. you'll boil)))
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Two dozen settlements in the Novosibirsk region have been erased from maps and atlases over the past five years. Villages are disappearing from the face of the earth due to lack of work, schools, hospitals, shops and distance from major cities. But sometimes already deserted settlements receive new life- summer residents, farmers and other enthusiasts settle in them. A Sibkrai.ru correspondent visited the village of Tropino, Kochenevsky district, and found out what brings people to abandoned places on the edge of the bus route network, and how they manage to revive the region abandoned by the indigenous inhabitants.
There are 1,518 different villages, villages, towns and settlements in the Novosibirsk region. In 339 of them less than 50 people live, in 56 there is no one left. If no one lives in the village for a long time, the settlement is abolished. Thus, over the past five years, 20 settlements in the Novosibirsk region alone have remained just dots on old maps. The further the villages are from big cities, transport hubs and shops, the faster people leave them.
But some settlements are lucky: at first they become empty, the indigenous people leave, but then others come. Summer residents. Most often, summer residents stay in the village only for the summer, but some then move permanently. This is exactly the fate that befell the village of Tropino in the Kochenevsky district of the Novosibirsk region.
From the district center to the village it is a little less than 30 kilometers. In the regional center you can buy food and basic necessities. Of course, all this is also available in the neighboring village of Shagalovo, but there, as residents assure, the prices are “dacha”, that is, several times higher than usual. They swear at the Shagalovsky village council, to which the village belongs, in Tropino, but more out of habit. Over time, both the village and the village council became completely indifferent to each other.
“The roads are broken, people are leaving, there is no work. There are no indigenous residents left in this village - only two grandmothers and two grandfathers, summer residents and that’s it,” justifies the deputy head of the Shagalovsky village council, Tatyana Shabanova. – Should we keep them with something, when the administration has no money for anything? The administration here will soon be closed, nothing will happen. They don’t give me a salary for six months, who will work here?”
In Tropino there are only two streets, no more than two dozen houses and nettles taller than a man. The summer residents who replaced the residents who left the village settled on the main street, it is called Rechnaya. One of the few signs of civilization here is a payphone, reminiscent of the last century. It was installed in the village in 2002, because, as the locals say, “Putin ordered it.”
In summer the village lives, but in winter and autumn only the most persistent remain here. One of them is Tatyana Afonskaya. Her house is located almost at the very beginning of the street, surrounded by a wooden fence, rickety in places. She is sure that there is little interesting in the village, but she likes living here. Behind the fence lies a small garden with a vegetable garden and a mountain of firewood - there is no electricity in the village.
“We can only complain that they didn’t make a way for us. I’ve been living here since 1990, but I took it as a summer house. So you can already consider him an old-timer,” says the woman. - We had a native grandmother, the last house over there burned down. I just sold it and it burned down. And she went to the city to visit her daughter, she was already 94, old, it was still hard, but she came to the dacha all the time, for the whole summer.”
On the site of the former home of the last indigenous woman there are now weeds and the same ubiquitous nettles. After some time, it begins to seem that it was not a weed that grew in the place where people once lived, but strong and not so strong houses appeared in the place where these nettle thickets have always been.
“I lived in Krakhalevka, and it’s very difficult for us to meet in the Kochenevsky district. If you stop by Kochenevo, wait until it’s ready next bus, it is still unknown how to get to the next village. Therefore, when the summer residents were here and freed up, she dragged me here. And now we’re side by side, we can at least see each other. This is what we have very simple life, says Svetlana Khoroshilova. “But you can’t buy bread, you have to go specially, there’s no store here, there’s no electricity in this village.” When it’s muddy and dark here in the fall, we can’t get our village council to provide us with light. Literally two years ago we started clearing snow in winter, but before that we had never cleared it, we made our own way and made paths.”
Svetlana Khoroshilova breeds livestock. During the conversation, her dog Tisha barks from behind her; besides him, she lives with four chickens and a cat. Chickens lay eggs, and a woman would like to keep more of them. “But four is good. And you can have eggs for breakfast and leave them for dough. We are not a picky people. What we have, we tolerate. But keeping livestock is very difficult; I will be 82 years old this year,” she notes.
There is no work in the village other than farming. As a result, almost the entire population in Tropino is of retirement age.
“My son lives alone with me, and the second lives in Kochenevo. There is no work for either one or the other. They used to take taxis to work, which was also hard. Once you go there, you won’t come back. This is our whole life,” Khoroshilova calmly explains and adds. “In general, of course, there is no life.”
For food and pensions, local residents go to Kochenevo, the regional center. The bus runs twice a day, morning and evening, but getting on it is not so easy. As Svetlana Khoroshilova explains, the residents of Tropino are not welcome there: “The bus began to run poorly - very early and does not take us all, because it is crowded, and we are the last station, and we cannot fit in. The old women generally growl at us there - “Why are you going, you should sit at home, pensioners!” Well, it has to be. Sometimes you have to go."
“We receive a pension in Kochenevo and go shopping there. Whatever we take, we bring it here by car. There is flour, bread, sugar, chicken, and we don’t buy anything else. The pension is small, it increased only because I turned 80 years old. There was a pension of about nine thousand, now you can’t buy anything with it. And now I think I have 15,” notes Svetlana Khoroshilova. - Of course, at my age, getting to the road and getting there is very difficult. But no one comes to us, we only provide for ourselves. Got older, got more money. Now at least I have enough for groceries. And food prices are getting more expensive, so we buy in bulk: a jar of butter, five to ten kilograms of flour, yeast. You don’t go for bread every time, it’s raining or mud.”
Only five houses remain to spend the winter in houses without electricity and communications. In addition to the sisters Svetlana and Tatyana, the headman of the village and two families - the Kamenevs and the Blinovs - remain for the winter. This year, two more will join the winterers - “the pensioner,” as Svetlana Khoroshilova affectionately calls her distant neighbor, and Alexander Kuzin, who came to build his own farm.
“I go to the library all the time - I read books. My sister bought herself an electronic one, it got damaged and we can’t fix it. You see how everything is done here, not for people. If you have money, then, of course, you can do something. But we don’t have enough of them and we always don’t have enough,” says the pensioner about winter life.
The villagers do not use the payphone, which stands in splendid isolation on the main street: they need to buy a special card, which is enough for several calls.
“It is not beneficial to us, although Putin gave us telephone numbers for these villages. You can’t call a cell phone, but where are you going, where, who has a phone at home now? Now almost no one has one, rarely anyone has a home phone,” explains Svetlana Khoroshilova. “That’s why, when cell phones appeared, he was no longer needed. And when there was nothing, it was profitable. They bought a card and even called several times. And so everything is fine with us. We have nothing to complain about. You yourself chose where to live.”
The only person in the village below retirement age is Alexander Kuzin. The man came from Kazakhstan, quit his job, bought a house on the very edge of the village and decided to run his own farm. He has 300 grown goslings, which he plans to sell later.
“The most important thing is to grow it, and to sell it – there would be something to sell,” the man assures. - There is a river nearby, there is land. You can develop the land, plant something, vegetables. Real ones, not all chemicals. Now on the Internet they really love homemade food, they try to buy everything natural, without any pesticides, so that it grows all natural. So this is a home farm.”
While the goslings are growing, the novice farmer is setting up a house and making further plans on how to expand the farm. His house is made of concrete blocks, there is no bed in it yet, so Alexander Kuzin sleeps on a mattress.
"It's only begining. So far, the conditions are Spartan, but I’m not complaining. It’s good here - quiet, calm. Two rivers, Sharikha and Chik. Fishing: there is good crucian carp in the river, not large, but good crucian carp. Now people will start to rise up - everyone will go to the villages,” says Alexander Kuzin. – The city with its dirty air, with its troubles... But in the village it’s good. I grew my own potatoes, my own carrots, my own meat. I found kids in Kochenevo for two thousand, the money will come to the card - I’ll take the kids, I’ll have my milk. It will be difficult to hold a cow alone, but a goat needs a little grass, it won’t run far. You can tie the goat on a rope and let it stand. You can live, and everything is natural.”
Other residents also praise the nature in Tropino. The Kochenevsky district is not rich in forests; its beauty lies in the fields stretching beyond the horizon and open spaces. “We have a very good view from here. So let’s go out, sit with my sister on a bench, there’s beauty all around!” – notes Svetlana Khoroshilova.
NOVOSIBIRSK, December 17 – RIA Novosti, Elena Zhukova. The authorities talk about the senseless waste of funds on providing utilities to sparsely populated villages and maintaining roads to them, but residents refuse to move from there. RIA Novosti correspondents went to one of these Novosibirsk villages, where seven people live, and asked the residents what the reason was for their reluctance to move to more civilized places.
In the footsteps of Stolypin: a collective farm of a new format near NovosibirskAlexander Leichtling created an agricultural enterprise that did not depend on the price of grain and meat, or on the authorities and bank loans. And also, at the same time, he returned the dying village of Ukrainka to the map of the region.The village of Berezovka is located in the Bolotninsky district of the Novosibirsk region. It is 160 kilometers from Novosibirsk and ten from the nearest settlement, the village of Acha.
This is exactly the kind of settlement the regional governor recently spoke about the tenacity of its residents. According to him, the authorities are ready to help people move from dying villages. This will be economically beneficial for the local budget, since the need to support the livelihoods of small villages will be removed, and it will ultimately be more convenient for people in more developed villages.
“And one family says: I’m not going anywhere. It’s probably possible to just make a decision, but it’s not right...”, Vasily Yurchenko gave an example at one of the recent press conferences.
And in total in the Novosibirsk region, according to data at the beginning of the year, there are about 140 villages in which less than 20 people live. And most people, especially retirees, do not want to leave their familiar places.
Born and married here
We stop in Berezovka: there is not a soul on the snowy Tsentralnaya Street. Near one of the houses there is a payphone and the only lantern in the village. Local residents joke that if it weren’t for him, the village would not be visible in the evenings. The village consists of four houses. No store, no pharmacy.
But seven residents of Berezovka are quite accustomed to doing without it. And proposals from the Achinsk village council to move to Acha are regularly refused.
“All that’s left is what they couldn’t take apart. There used to be a big farm here,” says Elena Eisner, pointing to a metal frame in the middle of a field not far from the village. Elena works as the head of the post office in the village of Acha, Bolotninsky district, and brings pensions and food for her parents and father-in-law to her native Berezovka.
Together with Elena we go to her parents Sergei Efimovich and Faina Vasilyevna Malinovsky, who live in a house right at the entrance to the village. The house is solid - a large kitchen with a Russian stove, two spacious rooms.
“No, we won’t go. We’ll live here. I don’t like what to do there. I’ve lived here for 57 years, why do I need that Acha, or Elfimovka or Sosnovka,” says Faina Vasilievna.
She came to Berezovka from the Vladimirov region in 1956 after a distribution college to work as a livestock specialist. Here I met my husband - I was driving in the evening from milking from a neighboring village, and Sergei Efimovich was returning on a timber truck and gave the girl a lift. Since then they have lived together in Berezovka.
Sergei Efimovich proudly says that he was born in Berezovka, and during the first census, which was carried out before the war, 80 people lived in Ache, and more than 400 in Berezovka.
He remembers that at that time people from Belarus came to the village, they received land here on which they could grow grain and livestock. For a long time, the village flourished - there was not only a large collective farm, but each family kept cattle for themselves.
“There was such a queue to hand over to the meat processing plant in Bolotnoye that we took the bulls to hand over to Novosibirsk to the meat processing plant, but we didn’t have time to process them - all the shops, counters, everything was littered with meat and sausage. A special sausage was prepared for the Novosibirsk regional committee in Bolotnoye, a car from the regional party committee came, they loaded everything and took it to Novosibirsk,” recalls Sergei Efimovich.
First they broke down the school...
According to him, the village began to die after the school was destroyed - this happened in the 1970s. Children began to be taken from Berezovka to neighboring Acha, they grew up and began to move there or to large cities - Novosibirsk and Yurga. After some time, the village club, a place where they once held dances and showed films, was also closed.
But the biggest blow to the village, adds Faina Vasilievna, was dealt during perestroika, when they began to reduce the number of livestock. Gradually the large farm died, and with it there was no work and no prospects for the village.
The couple sigh, remembering their own household. They say that they haven’t seen their local police officer for ten years - and they don’t even know his name. That’s why they even stopped keeping sheep - visiting “tourists” stole them, and elderly people could not protect their property in any way. But they repeat that they won’t leave here anyway.
All children bring
The next house on Tsentralnaya Street is a two-apartment and well-appointed house. It has running water, heating and a bath. An elderly man, a former cattle farmer, lives in one of the apartments. But he didn’t want to communicate, he didn’t even open the gate. He recently buried his wife and, as his neighbors explain, he is better off alone now.
And the neighbors are Vasily Avgustovich and Nina Nikolaevna Eisner, Elena’s father-in-law and mother-in-law. They moved to this house about six years ago, when there were no neighbors left on the street where they lived before.
“What am I going to do in Acha? I’m used to this land, I got into such an apartment - all the amenities. But in Acha they won’t give me something like this,” says Vasily Avgustovich.
He came to the village as a child - in 1941 he was evacuated here from the Volga region with his German parents.
Nina Nikolaevna agrees with her husband. According to her, she is not at all bored in the village, despite the absence of a store, club and other establishments usual for populated areas. Children and grandchildren do not forget; they regularly bring food, newspapers, and medicines.
“Berezovka! What kind of friendly, hard-working people lived here, I want to cry. Not like now. We are afraid that (the door) will be hooked,” Nina Nikolaevna sighs, but when asked about the move, she shakes her head negatively.
“If a rich man would be found, he would upset Berezovka and people would come,” sighs Vasily Avgustovich.
Neighbor Olga Litvinova comes to visit the Eisner couple - she and her husband Vasily are the only residents of Berezovka who have not yet reached retirement age. Neighborhood get-togethers, along with watching TV, which only has five channels, are popular pastimes here.
With my horse
Olga, having discovered the journalists, invites them to her place. Her house is on the outskirts, at the end of the street. On the road we pass a water tower that supplies water to residents, the building of a closed, or rather, collapsed club, and nothing else, the rest is wasteland.
She and her husband live mainly off the farm - they have cows, pigs, rabbits, chickens, a horse - as a means of transport. In summer there is a vegetable garden. Therefore, they are provided with basic products, the rest is bought in Ache by selling meat.
“We don’t live on a grand scale, but it’s enough,” says Olga. According to her, in such a sparsely populated village it is not scary, on the contrary, there is no one else, there is peace and quiet.
But she doesn’t see any particular benefits from moving to Acha. “You can’t buy medicine in Acha, I recently had a toothache, we came to Acha, and there wasn’t even analgin there, so I had to use folk remedies to treat myself with little flowers. The paramedic there is good - she’ll bandage it herself and pull out the tooth, but there’s a problem with medicines.” , says Olga.
Therefore, like the old-timers of the village, neither Olga nor her husband are going to leave Berezovka - they believe that it will not be better in any other place.