Lybov was raised on lake Baikal, a secluded fishing village in Russia which if you wish to leave, you must ice skate for many miles. When the fish disappeared, so did the villagers... except for Lybov.
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00:00My back hurts, I can't walk for a long time, but on skates I can straighten my legs and my back doesn't hurt.
00:24My name is Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, I live on the shore of Baikal.
00:30Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
00:36Because the school is 4 km away, in winter you still need to ride your skates.
00:41So he cut out of the saw, cut out such plates and inserted them into the wooden ones.
00:50He attached these ropes to the wooden ones, and with these ropes we still tied skates to the skates.
01:00Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
01:04He himself did not know how to skate, and he took me by the hand.
01:08I was small, but I immediately understood what to do, and then he let me go, and that's it, I quickly learned to skate.
01:17Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
01:23In spring and autumn we walked on foot, we crossed three rivers.
01:29These are slippery stones, who will fall, will crash in this water, in the ice.
01:35No one was sick, I don't know, I've never been sick.
01:39Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
01:42And the little one drowned, and the adult drowned, and the cutout, all the same, the cutout.
01:47Wet, yes, everything.
01:49Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
01:50There was a big village, first of all, there was a fishing reception point.
01:53Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
01:54And people left, because there was nothing to do.
01:58Once Baikal was closed, there was no fish.
02:00Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
02:01I left Irkutsk and worked at a factory.
02:03When he got sick, I immediately quit all my work in 2010.
02:08Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
02:09And I came and began to take care of him until he died in 2011.
02:15Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
02:16And that's it, and that's all I have left, with the farm, with everything.
02:20But many thought that I would leave it all.
02:22Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
02:23It's hard to be alone, only after the children have become adults.
02:26This is the eighth year, and it was very hard.
02:30Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
02:31Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
02:32Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
02:34I learned poems, poems, sang,
02:39I walked around and talked to cows and dogs.
02:44In general, I did not lose my gift of speech.
02:47I go, chase, sing to the cows.
02:50When I sing, they also go well, wag their tails.
02:55As soon as I start to swear, they look at me and say,
03:01I feel delight, joy.
03:04I do not feel loneliness.
03:06This person feels loneliness when he is alone, when no one goes to him.
03:14I am not alone, I have children, I have grandchildren, I have cows, I have dogs.
03:19What kind of loneliness is this? Is this loneliness?
03:26I don't think it's loneliness.
03:30Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater
03:32Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater