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The Zharkov family-father, mother and two young sons-belong to the Dolgan community, one of the last indigenous peoples pursuing their traditional nomadic life in the extreme north of Siberia. The children used to be sent to boarding school, where they became estranged from their family and culture, but nowadays they can get homeschooling from teachers assigned to them by the Russian authorities. Seven-year-old Zakhar and his older brother Prokopy are the protagonists in this calm, observational film. Zakhar's first year of schooling is with Nelly, a young but serious teacher. She tells him about President Putin and the importance of mathematics, and he learns classical poems by heart.
The film details the early years of the legendary Siberian Punk/Rock group 'Гражданская Оборона' (Grazhdanskaya Oborona), and its frontman, Egor Letov.
Zakhar is 7 years old, and his brother Procopius is 9. Each of the brothers already has its own deer and its own tundra for wandering. Previously, children born into a nomad family at this age were almost forcibly taken away to study in a boarding school on the mainland. And they rarely returned to the parental home. Trying to preserve the traditions of the nomadic peoples in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the authorities decided to revive the practice of "nomadic schools" that disappeared in Russia in the 30s. That’s how the 23-year-old Nelli Andreevna falls into the Zharkov family in order to explain to Zakhar and Prokopy what a mathematician is needed in life and who Vladimir Putin is.
Uncle Vova is something like a crowd entertainer. For example, he plays various musical instruments for sick children in the hospital. But not only that. He has time And to look into the bar, and go to the church, and visit the old mother, and quarrel, and then reconcile with his wife. From the cancer center to the tavern, from the tavern to the kliros. What usually evokes sympathy for human weakness is here a friendly smile. Uncle Vova. It is impossible not to love him. Better have a drink with him.
Interactive map of the cultural and social life of the regions. The team of the educational project "Open University" went on an expedition around the country to learn about the activities of Russians outside the capitals, from million-plus cities to villages and outskirts. The central theme of the Maps of Russia is civil society. The focus is on personal initiatives that can transform the environment, a rehabilitation center for drug addicts in Pskov, computer literacy lessons in Karelian in a village near Petrozavodsk, a program to save 19th-century port warehouses from demolition organized in Nizhny Novgorod.
What to do in the summer as a law student? You can, for example, go to work in the Arctic Circle. In addition to hard work, the never-setting sun and mosquitoes, a cruel rite of passage awaits Alexei.
