Where happinnes is born? There is a little village in the Crimea that is called
"Happy" (Schastlivoye). Let's see how happy one can be if he/she lives there.
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Would you be able to live in a village with population less
than 100 people? Let's check out how people live there.
According to the legend in the place of the present Murzitsy village Tatars used to live, ancestors of those very Mongol-Tatars who had come here with khan Batyi's hordes. It was some Murza who ruled here but he and his people were killed by Ivan the Terrible who travelled along the Sura river to Kazan.
People say it was terrible, this water still brings bones to the bank. Since then the village became the Russian one and it is today. But the unique holiday "Bathing the Horse" allegedly remained from those ancient Tatar times cause horses are the big love of all nomads.
Wedding parties in Russian villages often
resemble some circus shows. Look at some photos.
There is an amazing place in the very centre of Russia, the Nizhegorodsk region. On the maps it is called the Krasnooktyabrsky district but the locals call it Misharistan. It's the land so much different from all Russia. Misharistan villages are huge, clean, with houses of good quality. Probably this district is the only one in the region from where young people do not go to big cities. If it is compared to neighbouring villages where Russians live, the last one are not the gainers. Misharistan dwellers carefully keep their traditions. You
notice it while talking to them or in their kitchens. And the Tatars cook perfectly! Nobody has ever left them being hungry. Despite the actions of the Soviet authorities aimed at eradication of their religion in the country the local Tatars managed to preserve wooden mosques - unique 200 years' monuments. Not less respectfully they treat ancient Russian traditions. Thus, while meetings or feasts, they have samovars on their tables and drink tea from saucers after the ancient Russian manner.
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It had not been raining in a little village Saty of the Almaty region for a month already and so the locals decided to arrange
"Tasattyk" - invoke to the Supreme Being for help. It's a holiday in many regions that have their own traditons related to it.
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A guy from Grinevichi village of the Omsk region
Sergey Saikovsky is back from the army...
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Let us check out some more photos from flooded
Alatyr where almost 200 houses are sunken.
The exclusion Chernobyl zone on the terrotiry of Belarus. Tulgovichi village. It is the only local village still inhabited by people. In 1986 after
the catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear power station all citizens of the polluted territories were evicted but some refused to leave.
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Water level in the river Moksha that has broken its banks is higher 8-9 m than normal. The dams made by the locals from sand are being actively washed away and the densely-populated village is being flooded on. The streets have turned into Russian Venice and it
even looks beautiful but the people have lost almost everything they had. The road connecting Kadom with the big world has disappeared for a distance 1 km long. These people do not believe anymore that someone will help them but themselves...
