For several decades, as the village ceased to be a pillar of the city. It has become an unpromising and therefore unnecessary appendage, a burden that no one wants to drag on itself. From time to time, exclamations are heard that villages in Russia are dying out, and something needs to be done with it, but even sound ideas are broken into insurmountable obstacles that they themselves erect and erect.
There are many reasons for the extinction of Russian villages, but they are all interconnected. At the household and social level, we are faced with a total inadequacy. For the development of rural infrastructure, roads are primarily important. After all, it is precisely on the roads that food and household goods are imported to local stores, and medicines are delivered to pharmacies and hospitals. To deliver materials for new construction, roads are also needed. But to lay a new section from the highway to the village with a population of ten and a half souls is economically unprofitable. And residents deprived of the benefits of civilization are forced to leave their homes. Accordingly, there is a lack of labor and personnel.
The level of culture drops to a critical point. When you have to think about how to survive, it’s not up to ballet or Pushkin. In many villages, especially remote ones, of all the working establishments, there are only grocery stores with a meager assortment replenishing once every few months. Clubs and other places of organized mass leisure are crammed with boards and quietly rot. In the absence of any kind of entertainment, there is only one means that improves mood - alcohol. And it leads to degradation, domestic crime and early mortality. In addition, these conditions do not contribute to improving the demographic situation, although earlier a large number of children were the norm for a peasant family.
From time to time, attempts are made to revive agriculture and animal husbandry on a previous scale, programs are being developed to involve the younger generation in this industry, even funds are allocated from the budget. Needless to say, in whose pockets they find themselves? Or mention that the purchase prices for agricultural products are many times lower than market prices? Even an entrepreneur who has the warmest feelings for the village realizes that it is strategically and economically unprofitable to invest capital, labor and time in this area, because this idea was initially unprofitable.
The villages are still afloat at a small distance from the city, but near megacities they are also doomed. The problem of overpopulation of large cities is acute in many regions. Land for the construction of residential buildings is not enough, so the expansion is at the expense of villages, where the base for the construction of new buildings is already ready. A part of the villages turns into a zone of residence for a wealthy part of the population. Of course, there can be no question of fulfilling the functions assigned to the village historically.
