A woman returns to the village of her birth and an unlikely and fateful connection ensues.

A look at the history and cultural influence of dachas.

A Siberian village names a well after a Soviet hero.

It mows and fertilizes. What could possibly go wrong?

In this week's Odder News: post-Soviet leaders propose innovative treatments for coronavirus, phone chargers go bad, and Russian buyers have an opening in the European real estate market.

As if trapped in a time warp, a remote village school in the Mari El Republic preserves a largely forgotten style of schooling, mostly cut off from the twenty-first century.

He was a talented artist but an even more gifted itinerate photographer. What he captured 120 years ago is remarkable.

In Russia, a bus ride is always more than a bus ride, especially when it stops over at Klava’s patty shop.

Life and folklore in the remote Russian Far North

How do you win over the village beauty who has a thing for animals? Kolya is determined to find out.

Some off-the-cuff dacha recipes for you (summer seems like too relaxed a time for exacting recipes).

It was Nikolayev’s birthday, which in ordinary years would always start bright and early... but this was no ordinary year...