When the memory is died

The abandoned village of Yushkovo is located in the Veliky Ustyugsky district of the Vologda region, belongs to the Ust-Alekseevsky rural settlement.

It is visible from afar, it is located on a high hill. It is necessary to go through the field and descend the wooden staircase down to the river Varzha.

Then cross the wooden bridge.

Climb the hill and the village of Yushkovo here as here.

There are quite decent houses in this village, even similar to residential ones, but there are also dilapidated houses.
There are six in total.

Once there lived families, children ran along the street, old people died...
And now the village is dying. The process of its death is slightly different from human – it is more protracted. But if after the death of a person the memory of him remains, then after the disappearance of the village the memory of her disappears at the same time. Perhaps, something will remain in archival documents, but this is an insignificant fraction of the memory that is available to a certain circle of people.

When the villagers leave the village, they leave behind a portion of their memory in their homes: mostly these are some unnecessary things, clothes, utensils, household items and even furniture.

Then everything depends on the distance of the village from residential settlements, as well as from the greed and looting of living people.

The more inaccessibility the village is, the longer it will store the memory of it and its inhabitants.

When the Chinese learned how to make snowmobiles and they began to spread massively, and satellite maps became available to everyone, the number of untouched abandoned villages decreased almost to zero.

Someone collects scrap of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in such places.

Someone "hunts" for antiques. Someone even sorts the houses for firewood.

And someone (like me) just suits himself an excursion, nothing touching and not destroying.

Here it is...the memory! Someone, leaving the house, left it a little more than usual. Maybe this is the only thing left after the inhabitants of this dwelling and beyond it it will not come out. Or maybe someone does not value memory...

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