Russian Villages: Isolated And Hungry | Shops On Wheels Deliver Groceries To Russia’s North

Karelia is a Russian region on the border of Finland. It has more than 430 hard-to-reach villages, many of which have less than a hundred inhabitants, and some even less than ten! These villages often lack grocery stores, internet connection and basic infrastructure. Some of them are able to survive only thanks to the so-called ‘mobile shops’ that deliver food and other essentials to the people who are mostly pensioners.  In this video, I will make a journey with a mobile shop into the wilderness of Russia — where only broken roads, scheduled electricity supply and old people remain from what used to be a Soviet dream. Suffering of the Russian Buddhists | Kalmykia: Poverty, Depopulation, No Drinking Water Russia’s Savage Periphery: Republic of Tuva | Documentary Russia Russian Communal Flats: Shared Housing in Saint Petersburg | Documentary Russia Russian North: The Opposite Of Scandinavia | Documentary Russia Yakutia: How Indigenous People Live in Siberian Woods | Documentary Russia ENG SUB #russia #karelia #documentary If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up, leave your comments and share this video on social networks! Hello! My name is Ilya, I am a Russian journalist and founder of various urban beautification projects in Moscow and around Russia. There is nothing in the world that I love more than traveling. On this channel, I will do my best to give you an objective overview of life in different parts of the globe. Subscribe to the channel so you don’t miss my new videos! Support the channel on Patreon: Support the channel with cryptocurrency: Instagram: Twitter: Facebook: TikTok: Reddit: Timestamps: 00:00 How to get groceries in remote villages 01:02 How mobile shops work 03:01 Concentration camp in a village 03:57 How to run a mobile shop 05:57 Electricity outages 08:08 Villagers’ problems 12:40 Lack of infrastructure and telecommunication 16:31 Government aid 18:16 The village where electricity is supplied according to schedule 20:56 Visiting a local babushka 25:32 A telephone booth that doesn’t work 27:37 Life of a Karelian farmer