Posted on 11/11/2015 5:43:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
In a remote corner of the Russian Urals region of Sverdlovsk, tiny villages are shadows of their former selves. For the few local residents, a narrow-gauge railway is their lifeline.
The forestry industry here suffered when the former Soviet Union imploded and people moved away in search of work in the steelmaking city of Yekaterinburg and beyond.
About 600 people lived in Kalach about 30 years ago. 'Those were the days,' said Alexander, who used to work in the forestry business.
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A little too isolated and I don’t speak the language but my kind of town in many ways.
there are only about 75 people in the town where I live now.
Bless them and their faith in the kind of goodness we are evaporating here in America ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZE4IqeXnT8
Reminds me of the winter scenes and “Lara’s Theme” in “Doctor Zhivago.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXtFRl1nSs4
I want to join the Ural Mountains women’s hunting club.
Ekaterinberg is where they took the Tsar and his family, to be murdered. Because the Whites were coming. A desolate flat cold country, Sverdlovsk.
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