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.
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.
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.