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Russia's villages disappear as population decline accelerates

Across rural Russia, villages are shrinking as young people move to cities, populations age, and entire communities struggle to survive. In some cases, villages have disappeared from official maps alt

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Cannon fodder not being born. Gov must be worried
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Same thing all round the world. Even here in Australia rural towns are either deserted or mainly old people.
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I’d imagine that starting a war with your next door neighbor isn’t going to help either
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Nature is healing ❤
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I could've sworn I've already seen a documentary about Russia's disappearing/dying villages.....but it was from like 10 years ago. Seems like this decline has been happening for a long time now.
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What happened to the FSB agents that manned the abandoned "churches"?
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@rj6404 From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 2
Death has outpaced Birth by 1 is to 2 ratio, there is no coming back from here.
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Yes, Most Small Towns don't work in Large Area Nations.

Australia has the same problem.
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Such places need such people, like Amish. Because many similar places do not have electricity, telephone and internet connection, do not have kindergartens, schools, medical centers and firefighters. Similar places in Ural and in Siberia have at least one satellite telephone container with solar panels and batteries in ship containers, but not everywhere. To live in such conditions you also need a heating system and plantation of fast growing trees, to have wood for your oven. You need solar panels, batteries, inverters, diesel generators, at least two of each for redundancy, also you need water source and pumps, a big water storage and firefighter pump and hose, to be ready to pour much of water when fire comes. You need your own hemp or rapeseed fields, to produce your own bio diesel, at least one traktor, satellite internet, and you need to be a teacher at least for your own kids and doktor at least for the whole family. Also you need many animals, food for all of them, big vegetable plantations, to feed your own family and animals. And if you need to use normal waterklosett, you need also a big septic tank, road connection to invite one time per couple of years a pump truck to
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@JmeB-so3fd From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 52
in Russia there are no jobs in villages, govt doesnt support agricultural businesses unless those are established giants that dont need subsidaries yet they still get them. Is it surpsing that people flee rural area? not really
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I feel pity for those beautiful buildings... They don't deserve this fate
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@Agapimo From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 30
Nature will reclaim the areas and improve the overall environment.

Those areas will be cut off during winters with all the roads blocked by snow.
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Weird that no-one came up with the idea to sell the stunning woodwork from old abandoned houses to west.
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There are 20,000 abandoned villages in Russia and another 30,000 with ten or fewer inhabitants.

Since the end of the Korean War South Korea has developed an economy that created LG Lucky Goldstar, Samsung, Kia and Hyundai.
Russia has, by far, the greatest resources on earth and has developed nothing.
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@Marksher72 From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 32
It's not the decline in population. It's just that Russia is still murdering their own people like they have for centuries.
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@blaydCA From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 74
I doesn't help that most of the Meat Grinder is supplied from these Rural, Less informed and educated areas.
They removed Productive age group that may have stayed and thrived in rural living and made it a dead end demographic.
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Added to which the unnecessary Ukraine War
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They usually move to bigger cities where there are more jobs, better life quality, and higher wages.
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War+low birth rate+migration
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Perhaps they could stop invading other countries & sending people off to war & the villages will be populated....