Life of Boris

    Life of Boris

    Boris

    Comedy cooking and budget challenges built around Slavic and Soviet food.

    About Russia from abroad

    3.3M subscribers on YouTube

    Published in 4 languages: EN · FR · PT · RU

    Checked Sep 2026

    A rare Soviet pickle juice soup

    Rassolnik, a Soviet soup, cooked start to finish in under five minutes.

    Life of Boris is a comedy channel in English. The core format is cooking: Soviet and Slavic dishes such as rassolnik, Spartak honey cake and shashlik, plus homemade drinks. Other recurring formats are budget challenges (a week on €10), travel episodes in the Balkans and Lithuania, and video game reviews. The channel's most viewed videos are cooking and budget episodes.

    What you'll find here

    • 01Soviet and Slavic recipes, from rassolnik to Spartak cake
    • 02Living on €10 a week
    • 03Rating countries in travel episodes

    Start here

    Cake Spartak - Chocolate Honey Cake from 70s

    A Soviet honey cake from the 1970s.

    BUDGET WEEK - How I live on 10€ / $12 per week

    Living on €10 a week, Slavic style.

    Cooking with hammer and sickle

    His most-watched cooking episode.

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