"Manure-for nothing!" /Ust-Khmelevka/

___ The village of #UstKhmelevka is located 34 km from #Kemerovo along the road to #Yashkino at the confluence of the left tributary of the Khmelevka into the Bolshaya Podikova River. This is where its name comes from. There are seven streets in the village, most of which I for some reason did not find; there is a nine-year school in which 28 children study. There is no more information on the history of the village or its condition on the Internet today.
___ Judging by the ads on Avito, you can buy housing in Ust-Khmelevka today for 3 million https://clck.ru/UFj4v and for 590 thousand https://clck.ru/UFj6L a two-story "mansion" can be practically for maternity capital. But most of the houses in this village did not wait for their buyers; abandoned by the owners, they are falling into decay with lightning speed.
___ One of the women in my photographs - Varvara, during the privatization of quite successful industries and state farms, the same half in chorus cost only 45 "lyams". She then sold an apartment in Kemerovo on the Boulevard of Builders and moved to nature. I thought that life in the village would be easier, but life did not become better. A quarrelsome neighbor cut off water and heating for Varvara. The courts, apart from a small administrative fine, did not oblige the neighbor to do anything, Varvara does not have her own funds to restore utility communications, the village authorities are in no hurry to help, so they have to heat the only living 30-meter room with electricity. He lives on a modest pension, having worked for many years as a caretaker in a school cafeteria.
___ We must pay tribute to the residents - despite all the neglect, there are a lot of cattle in the village. Which, however, is understandable - there is no work, so you have to survive exclusively on the household. As it seemed to me, the whole village is holding on today, thanks to the local farmer. Isa keeps a large number of sheep and cattle. Despite the bearable financial situation, he is sincerely worried that the villages in the country are dying. He says that earlier he only managed to sell meat and milk, but now you will not find good buyers in the daytime with fire. Even manure, which used to be snapped up like hot cakes in the spring-summer period, is of no use to anyone today.
____ Isa allowed to contact you as an advertisement! Those in need of natural fertilizer for their garden - welcome to Ust-Khmelevka! He gives it out there for free