Can You Live a Life Like This?

Whereas some persons are mastering nanotechnologies and launching satellites, others reside an previous life or a bit worse.

Solely about 100 individuals remained within the village of Novoyemakovka within the Omsk area. They haven’t any Web or cellular connection, and visitor staff don’t remain there for lengthy. However they’ve a farm the place villagers work.

However we need to inform about one Russian girl, Lubov Andreevna Lavrentyeva, the satisfaction of the entire area, repeated winner of assorted livestock competitions.

She has been a milkmaid for thirty years. Every morning she involves the farm. Even on Sundays and Saturdays. It’s all the time the identical: rubber boots, manure, chilly. Cows are to be milked day by day.

Morning milking begins at 5:30.

Lubov Andreevna and her companion Lena ought to milk 120 cows! All of them have names and the ladies bear in mind all of them.

Lubov Andreevna says she likes her career and it’s already arduous to work being not so younger.

In 3,5 hours they’re accomplished with milkng. If it’s colder than -20C (-4F) the cows don’t stroll and the ladies might go away earlier.

Males work on the farm too. They’re chargeable for bringing hay and different meals. However virtually all of them wish to drink.

At residence she is awaited by her grandchildren, kids, husband and livestock.

Lubov Andreevna has three daughters. Two of them reside within the village with little infants. One among them is divorced. The elder one lives in Magnitogorsk. They’ve a lot work to do day by day.

Mom of Lubov Andreevna is a milkmaid with thirty years expertise. Now she needs to be taken care of.

Until noon she is busy with the youngsters, home work, cooking. Then she has to return to the farm once more. The cows are to be milked within the afternoon too.

Lena was suggested to reside in her native local weather after giving beginning to her child. She left Magnitogorsk for the village the place mom lived. She is planning to remain there until summer time.

Her husband Nikolay didn’t need to go away town however love was a stronger feeling. He modified a extra worthwhile career of a trucker to the job of a cattleman on the farm. He likes the village bathtub the place the entire household go as soon as per week.

As soon as, in 2002, Lubov Andreevna acquired the regional prize – a automobile “Zhiguli”. The keys got by town governor himself. However when the automobile was delivered to the village it turned out she needed to pay for it. About 1 000 {dollars}. Alas, they’d no such cash. She hadn’t earned this a lot for thirty years of constructing tons of of hundreds litres of milk. So she needed to promote the automobile to those that may pay this sum, the remaining cash was spent for a settee, two armchairs and a brand new TV set with a videotape recorder – an amusement for her daughters.

The home of the Lavrentyevs is obvious however clear and cosy. The individuals themselves are very hospitable. They deal with friends to dumplings and provides them lard.

They’ve two cows, a calf and 7 pigs, in summer time they breed chickens. That’s what helps them to outlive. As a result of their salaries are too small – the most effective milkmaids within the area earns 200 {dollars} solely. For such a tough work! The common wage is even much less. However they by no means complain: “We reside effectively and earn sufficient. Our farm is without doubt one of the greatest within the area”…

It’s getting darker. Lubov Andreevna goes to the farm for the third time.

Night milking begins at 5:30 and lasts for 3 hours like within the morning.

She is again residence at about 9 o’clock within the night. And once more she has a number of work from home, wash kids’s garments, wash youngsters themselves, cradle them… However the subsequent day she will likely be again at work at 5:30 a.m. That is the way it has been taking place for thirty years…

It’s all about that very Russian soul – when you concentrate on kids, grandchildren, previous mother and father, and virtually by no means about your self. Thousands and thousands of individuals reside such a life. And so they actually deserve a lot respect.

by way of bbc.co.uk