In the Republic of Karelia, a Russian region bordering Finland, there are more than 400 remote villages, where it is not so easy to get by car, as there are hardly any roads there. It’s usually about 4050 people (mainly old ones) living there. These villages are completely isolated from the rest of the world: there are no supermarkets or grocery stores, some places don't even have stable electricity supply. The only hope for the residents of these villages are mobile shops — vans that deliver food, medicine and even utensils to remote corners of the Russian North.

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Timestamps:
00:00 How to get groceries in remote villages
01:02 How mobile shops work
03:01 Concentration camp in a village
03:57 How to run a mobile shop
05:57 Electricity outages
08:08 Villagers’ problems
12:40 Lack of infrastructure and telecommunication
16:31 Government aid
18:16 The village where electricity is supplied according to schedule
20:56 Visiting a local babushka
25:32 A telephone booth that doesn’t work
27:37 Life of a Karelian farmer