Village Routine of Russian Old Believers in Altai

“Poles“ is an ethnographic group of Russians resettled after 1763 from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to Siberia (along the Uba River in Altai, partly in Zabaykal’ye). The “Poles” were descendants of Russian Old Believers from the Kaluga, Tula, Ryazan, and Oryol provinces, who settled first in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (in Belarus - in the regions of Starodubye, Vetka, Dobryanka, Gomel, Dorogobuzh), and from there in the second half of the 18th century they were resettled administratively to Siberia. For two centuries, the “Poles” maintained only intra-family marriage ties, avoiding marrying representatives of other Siberian ethnic groups. The village of Poperechnoye is one of the places of settlement of the “Poles”, the most remote settlement in the valley of the Ulba and Uba rivers, 30 km from the border with Russia, as local residents say - the edge of geography. 00:00 Morning 01:28 Feeding calves and cows 04:11 Cooking borsch 07:48 Harvesting 1