that is example for all trades. the for. the. postman nicholai simeonoff will now take his heavy bag and head to remote villages where the people illegally await him as well as letters newspapers and magazines he also brings them food all the village grocery stores have long since vanished not even a loaf of bread can be boiled. he won't pies you know you want me to write down pies yes plays and tangerines. one kilogram is enough.

the elderly people here only manage their lives in these villages because of the postman's help. by tractor all sleds 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 or a roof repaired. high. look this is the man who used to be a very small. but flooded after his rotten roof sprang a leak following a downed pole 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 no need for me to help the residents. but now the 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 to me at my place not the same 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 have it's leaking as you can see it's completely ruined which means. if you fix 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 sumi arnold's 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 of far off 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 make. is the last inhabitant of this hamlet. 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 but i know. 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 we.

this time for me. thanks for coming. but. i wish nikolai 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 bags. 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.

was there anyone received. this one. so 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. oh are you talking to me i'm not talking to you i mean the horse. 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. trying to set some time aside for work on the higher goal 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 their 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 the how invite wife and vice sons and dice sons wives with the bring forth with the every living thing that is with the 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 they're still drawn back to the house where they were born they often bring their families to the village nikolai's younger children are about to finish high school with my old as taste twenty six years old in dashes twenty four in martial. soon be twenty three a man comes out to show me he'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 postman nicholai often jokes that he has a whole village on 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 tell maria i mark shown to. her in rolled a university. yes how long we will be here i'll be here another week just a week. 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 from 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 and eager expectation of the vans arrival. many travels several kilometers on foot for the chance of getting a fresh loaf as in the winter 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. out of pretty 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 paying off.

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but you know. since ancient times russia has celebrated the day when ripe apples are harvested. 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 complacent. religious postman nicholai simeonoff also drops by to celebrate the holiday yet it will be eighty one when he

arrives the locals reveal what the newspapers have been writing about him but headlines call him a remarkable person for helping his fellow villages. and the award goes to. why sim your know for his active participation in the life of the village being here. thank you. thank you. again 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 get your money. 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.

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 normally a vendor square. 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. 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 here. ok. me she needs to come out. on. my take the bread. come here. take it or what's up don't think give you any brad. conway here yes the one for the brad 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 bag they've also promised to get her a smartphone with internet access as a present. of the samee on a family except nicole i use the devices even though this multi-talented postman can repair a track to install a 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 daddy can it made headway with the t.v. set should be a restaurant but not their mode control he always asks me to help out what use do you spend on paper before and now computers have totally replays them i write down when 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 try to convince their father that there is something. good about

computers too. you talk here like on the telephone with the keyboard. just wrote. he says hi. and immediately on says. well lets is usually longer. you can write loads here. people prefer les's let'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 where he 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. our neighbors gave me 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 a blow to tide home to live in for many more years. the gold fever. turns thousands into slaves. my father but also among other involved in the mines and since i started working in the mine i stated i look and feel multinationals. make it a cash cow to be milked dry and if i think that in this country gold medal logie as an environmental cost which is unacceptable to local business was labelled illegal and controlled by criminals you know in order to protect our lives our

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