Survival Russia
Lars is a Dane who has spent well over a decade in rural Russia, raising sons, heating with wood, hauling furniture out of abandoned villages and building a sauna by hand. The channel started as bushcraft and became something better: a long-running record of a foreign family in the Russian countryside.
He is not a lifestyle influencer. There is mud, machinery, cold, and the occasional flat statement about how a sanctioned country feels from a forest road — which is the reason to watch him alongside the Moscow channels.
- From
- Denmark
- Lives in
- A village in the taiga
- Does for a living
- Homesteader and bushcraft instructor; lives with his family in the forest belt.
- Films in
- English
- Topic
- Village life · Nature · Building a house · Family & children
What this channel shows better than anyone
- Winter as a working problem: heating, water, roads, machinery that has to start.
- Abandoned villages and what is left in them — the part of Russia statistics do not film.
- Raising children in the countryside as a foreign parent.
Five videos to start with
Plays here, on their channel's terms — nothing loads until you click.
The channel at its best: a build, a family, and no commentary track.
Empty Russia, filmed slowly — the opposite of a city vlog.
His plainest answer to the question everyone actually asks him.
Depopulation as a physical fact rather than a statistic.
A second opinion
Where we would add a number or a correction — not a complaint.
“Village life on this channel looks affordable and self-sufficient.”
It is — for someone with his skills, tools and years of local contacts. Healthcare, schooling and internet in a taiga village are logistics problems that a newcomer pays for in time, not roubles.
Where to follow
Details checked: 2026-09-08
