Staunton, January 7 — According to a new report by Russia’s state statistical agency, Rosstat, 35 million Russians live in houses or apartments without indoor toilets, 47 million do not have hot water, 29 million don’t have any running water inside their residences, and 22 million do not have central heating (ehorussia.com/new/node/17679).
In fact, only 62.7 percent of the Russian population has the usual accoutrements of modern existence – water in the house, plumbing, heating and gas or electric ranges, Rosstat says, a fact that must seem incredible to those who visit only Moscow or St. Petersburg but a fact of life for those who lives beyond the ring roads of the capitals.
no they have an outhouse, mostly rural villages that could pass for the 1800's apart from the rusty lada on the side of the street
Robert Ward
So basically a little over a quarter of Russia is rural or else just hasn't seen the need to modernize to that degree. It's not like they're actively being kept in poverty or something, they can move to the cities and find modern training and employment I'm sure. If people want to live like that power to them. Rural living like that worked for humanity for more years than we've actually recorded.
I don't see an issue. I'd actually see more of an issue if they moved to forcibly update these people whether or not they were willing. As in Ontario, Canada, where they're considering outlawing building homes without central heating, on top of the fact that they've already made it illegal to build a home off the grid.
Angel Williams
Why sign in English in India?
Ian Lee
Booo!
Ian Rodriguez
i've been playing spintires:mudrunner, and am now an expert on russia as a result. most of them live in small run down houses in rural areas completely disconnected from civilization connected only by muddy roads, swamps, and bogs, and their only cars are trucks from the former soviet union. this article is 100% true.
When my parents lived on a farm way back in the day when I was very young we did not have indoor plumbing. We had an outhouse, water came from a well, for bathing we had an old portable tub that two people could pick up and move around when needed, and water had to be heated over a fire or old wood burning stove. Thats when I was very young though, eventually we moved from the farm into a small town which by that time we did have indoor plumbing.
Jackson Wilson
What you would do is you would take a really big pot (typically used for cooking stew), fill it with water and heat it up till it boiled. You'd pour most of the tub full of water pumped from the well, and then you'd take the pot of boiling water and dump that into the tub. It wasn't extremely warm, but warm enough for a comfortable 20 minute bath.
