Accommodation

    The choice of living place depends on the number of volunteers in a team. If our team is small, we plan to live in a peasant house (with or without a hostess). There is enough room for three or four persons. If the number of volunteers in a team is more than four we may stay in a boarding school or in two houses. Beds and bedding are provided by our hosts but you should bring your own sheets and pillowcases.

    Electricity will be available wherever we go. The majority of peasant houses have bottled gas and refrigerators. There are no hot showers in Russian villages. But many houses have a Russian saunas called a banya where we will wash. The bath-house is a separate wooden house, clean inside. There is a stove and tanks with water. The fire warms the water and stones on the stove. When a person waters the stones, the steam is produced. The Russian bath-houses are very useful for the vascular system, the circulatory system and joints. In Russia bath-houses treat rheumatism, arthritis, colds and many other diseases. Beginners should wait until the heat of the room has cooled.     We hope to enjoy this very Russian experience twice a week. In addition, volunteers can heat their own water for washing and for laundry on the gas stoves in the houses where we will be staying.