one kilogram is enough. the elderly people here only manage their lives in these villages because of the postman's help. by tractor. every single day. travels to these hamlets without fail. people always ask for his help some need to have a new floor others have a vegetable garden needs to be plowed a roof repaired. look this is the man who used to be. the. flooded after his rotten roof sprang a leak following

a downpour the postman puts his mailbag aside and sets about patching it up no one else can do it. for. the wood. but also worked as a postman for the best part of his life. he had a daily round but in those days there were only newspapers and magazines and he sank to the point. when i was a postman there were many people in the villages. i would bring in the newspapers as. possible those. back then there was new needed for me to help the residents. but now those scarcely anybody around. so the people who need help. you know i have my house

only an old woman lives there by. someone younger i come to see her. and she visits me at my place not yours in those ten hens will be pensioned off soon. for the few surviving households left in the village this postman is now a lifeline. are what we it's leaking as you can see it's completely ruined which means. if you fix is your roof everything will be ok again the roof doesn't leak anymore. so he brings us you food firewood and so on. and shorty is a real treasure. nicholai

simeon olds postal route takes him through about a dozen old villages young people have long since abandoned them and moved to the city. only elderly people remain living in their dilapidated houses. these rural communities a far from major roads in some of the country lanes are clogged with mud. in winter it's snow as for sightseeing there's only an old church which fell into ruin in the one nine hundred thirty s. it's stone threatens to fall on passers by at any moment. and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights and the waters increased and bore up the ark and it was lifted up above the earth but the rain has been pouring down on the villages where nicholai works for more than

a week the postman's are called something unusual human communication mutual assistance and selflessness these qualities are rapidly fading away from the face of the world today. or can i come in. there i've run out of milk but now this much will last a long time well no really i think it will last until wednesday. i think so too. i'll fetch you some firewood. eighty year old mc. is the last inhabitant of this hamlet because former neighbors sometimes come here but he prefers to steer clear of them. see i can't even raise my right hand. i'm like

a skinny accordion. there were seventy eight house odes in a village school. we were a close knit bunch. we always helped one another. but now you can count the people still living here on the fingers of one hand. for some reason they're quite mean i'll be damned if i know. i makes a point of seeing the elderly man several times a week mel's son died a long time ago and his wife died recently the postman is now his only visitor. is just me all alone i often talk to my mother and wife when looking at these photos sometimes i even with.

time for me. thanks for coming. but. i wish nicholai came to see me every day then we would talk our heads off and i would be better off. but i understand that he too has his hands full. he has to go places all the time. and he little troublemaker. does not everything. now let's take the bag. depending on the time of year uses different means of transport sometimes he drives a car but generally a tractor is the better choice if

a tractor can't handle the journey he rides his horse. that was there any one receipt. this one. yells or you didn't bring me anything pies or sweets because you're on horseback what you know what do you want from me don't touch don't touch. are you talking to me i'm not talking to you i mean the horse. in your nikolai's horse has been with him for more than ten years and the postman knows his mood all too well and thinks the horse is pretty lazy. delivering mail to people is no fun for him he'd rather be back at the stable as soon as possible.

which will. get back to you whole again. for the mailman is also a mouse to craftsman of stoves villages can do without them in winter they keep their homes warm and in summer males are cooked on top nicholai boasts that he's already made more than one hundred such stoves. still but he trying to set some time aside for work but each year it turns out that i've got no time but i try to scale down my work in the villages and do something for my own household but such plans never come to fruition in that case i'd have to choose between doing something for them and my own for example i have a beehive to take care of the honey needs to be harvested in good time otherwise basan wasps will pinch it old. villages

a surprise to the postman's high morals he doesn't drink or engage in idle chit chat he prefers to turn up his sleeves and get down to work. many women here hold him up as an example to the husbands and sons. there's an old oak tree near the house where the village postman lives with his family it was planted by nicholas ancestors three hundred years ago. the back yard is set aside for pets and chickens the house is full of children. and gold spoken to noah saying go forth from the ark that no invite wife and vice sons and by sons wives with the bring forth with the every living thing that is

with all flesh. is like no it's all right god told noah to build an ark and bring animals of every description on board and he ordered them to multiply again forty days and nights here. have seven children two of the daughters of married and live elsewhere but those still drawn back to the house where they were they often bring their families to the village nikolai's younger children are about to finish high school with my old as twenty six years old and dashes twenty four in martial. soon be twenty three then comes out to a woman who's eighteen seventeen will be sixteen and it. will be fifteen soon when all members of the family get together sixteen people show up at a time when nikolai often jokes that he has a whole village under his roof. with these four kids are born right here and not in eternity ward and john was born in late march when no evidence would have been able

to get here i didn't like the idea of being driven back home in a tractor certainly not with a baby in my arms so i did what needed to be done without leaving home. mario a term where we are shown to. her in rolled into our city. how long we would be here i'll be here another week just so we could. yes so you're helping your father. his father take bread to nearby villages the roads between them all but impossible in spring and autumn especially if it's raining and nikolai has to hurry because people are waiting for. the bread van stops of the old church it can go any further because the road ends

here the van visits just twice a week people from a dozen villages flock here to queue for the loaves in eager expectation of the van's arrival. many travels several kilometers on foot for the chance of getting a fresh loaf. in the winter that the roads are covered no how can you get around. to drag. i tied it together and came to touch the un to get groceries that. there's no other way. a sled is not an option because it rolls over. yet it can be awful at times. a while ago grocery stores were a common sight in these villages. as the local population dwindled the shops disappeared the owners realized that carrying supplies over difficult roads was not

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these women have baked many cakes and place them out for both the local residents and those coming here to their country houses. people don't stay at home on this day. they sing songs and congratulate each other instead as the haymaking marking the end of summer is complete. also drops by to celebrate the holiday. when he arrives in the locals revealed what the newspapers have been writing about him. headlines call him a remarkable person for helping his fellow villages. and the award goes to nikolai simular for his active participation in the life. the village being here. i think you.

get back the next day nikolai heads to a local bank to take out a loan for a new car his old one often breaks down because he's been taking it over country roads but the bank won't lend to nikolai. i don't know why i got turned down or used to get money from a bank before and don't forget to take your documents with you show of course. you. don't want to hear i wanted to buy a second hand car. i was going to borrow one hundred thousand rubles about three thousand dollars but. last time i went there. they told me that there was no money available.

absolutely nothing. better shame. the villages love nikolai and feel a little sorry for him because they believe that his profession will soon be made redundant newspapers letters and transactions are becoming increasingly electronic i have a daughter who is sixteen i think that her generation is unlikely to use postal services we already live in the new century that offers a variety of computer technology so i don't think they will need the post office i think up some twenty to thirty years from now there won't be a village here nothing will remain as it is now. when i started working. used to be a big village. and now there's no more

no view. and creche cause there's only one house remaining. they say we're going to see the end of the world on december the twenty first rebuttal which december the twenty first this year. this year. yes. so it's time to build upon. yes this time but a bunga is not the solution you'll get drowned here. ok it's time for me to go. have a good time am. ok. me

see me just come out. on. my take the bread. come here. take it what's up don't think give you any brad. comes here yes he wants the bread practically all the family has gathered at nikolai's house this get together is devoted to his granddaughter victoria she's just started school and they've given a new bike they've also promised to get her a smartphone with internet access as a present. of the semi on a family except nicole i use the devices even though this multi-talented postman can repair a track to install the stove and cover a roof he stays away from computers but now our dad has a hard time using a south phone and has to resort to mom's help dandy kemet made headway with the

t.v. set should be a presser on the button on the remote control he always asks me to help out as we used to spend on paper before and now computers have to be replaces them i write down one potatoes are planted how many rows and what kind and when it's time to get out and how much of you and i got. to my struggles with the thought that one day a soulless machine and e-mails will take over the role of postman and letters. his children though trying to convince their father that there is something. good to bad computers to. talk here like on the telephone with the keyboard. just wrote. he says hi. and immediately on says. well let's is usually longer. you can write loads here.

people prefer les's but it's just out of habit first you can send everything via the internet especially business less is still yes there was no telephone or internet before but now the technology has become foster of course. a lot has happened during the life of form a postman. today uses a mobile phone and has a satellite dish but he remembers when the village saw its first t.v. set a major event for everyone. once the t.v. set was. screened was facing the window. gather to watch it. neighbors this. now i don't know whom to call.

has come to visit again with his son. they want to finish the repairs on his roof and brought him a fresh newspaper. the world is changing rapidly but human values remain thanks to people like nicholai simeonoff. hard work on the home is on the way nikolai and his son have laid a new roof giving vasily to tight home to live in for many more years.

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offers an airshow and an issue. was a matter you. must of the residents never profit from the performances you don't see of coming all sinners are there when you look up and there's one. alpha beta gamma he's. the final. out there know what's going on. right now. doug shells become income mortal danger and a piece of art still sticks and. making him from three. bombs. on our team. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world

has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporation to rule the day. looking at some dogs you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strength in canada and the us i come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like alaska and so i felt at home the first sled dog was brought here from a straight analysis train outcome to this remote russian village to take part in

the race it's not surprising they love it this trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll it wasn't the tough. grazing who set the trail ablaze but a nun and for all phones who brought their dia to life. five years ago models for us care about built a dock kennel in the village kids from the local open age came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their full legged friends but smother her schedule also encourages her kids to become depth hands on the computer and internet the boys regularly updated their website and they're in touch with that busy mother twenty four seven on the phone itself but children are the most important thing my only interests not

play any role anymore and regardless of whether parsky has huskies win the race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the winning but actually just the taking part that counts.