Intermediate Russian Listening: Здесь была деревня (There was a village here)

I think I should tell you about one of the Russian deserted villages. There are a lot of places like this in Russia: some of them are completely abandoned, others have a few inhabitants, mostly summer villagers. Sometimes it's difficult to get there because of poor roads. There are no city-like infrastructure and modern conveniences. For a city dweller, it's hard even to imagine how difficult life here must have been in the last century. And the nature around is breathtaking in its beauty... The PDF-transcript and mp3-audio of this video are available at   / russianfromrussia   Russian from Russia Podcast:   / russianfromrussia   The list of all Russian from Russia Podcast podcast episodes:
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