“Lyudmila Ivanova and her fiance came to the Arctic from a village in southern Russia in 1978 in search of a better life.”
A better life in the Arctic? Geez where the hell did these people live that they believed the Arctic was a better place?
It was the Soviet Union. Living in the arctic might have been a better life if it paid you enough to not have to stand on the bread lines.
Russia has/had some very rough places to live.