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.

Zakhar lives in the middle of the vast expanses of the polar tundra, a hundred kilometers from other people. He is 7 years old, but he already has his own reindeer and a piece of tundra for pasture. One day, a teacher from a nomadic school joins his family, who is supposed to teach the boy the alphabet, counting and tell him who Putin is.

Long version.

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.

Zakhar is 7 years old, and his brother Procopius is 9. Each of the brothers already has his own deer and his own tundra for nomadic life. Previously, children born in a nomadic family at this age were almost forcibly taken away to study at a boarding school on the mainland. And they rarely returned to their parents' house. 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 1930s. This is how 23-year-old Nelly Andreevna ends up in the Zharkov family in order to explain to Zakhar and Prokopiy why mathematics is needed in life and who Vladimir Putin is.

Short version.

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.