0:01 [Laughter] M yummy. Hello guys, welcome back to my channel. Here I'm showing everyday life of ordinary Russian people. In this video, I'm going to take you to my friend's dacha or countryside house. You've
0:34 probably heard this Russian word dacha. It means uh countryside house where Russian people usually do some gardening or just having rest. And where we are in the world right now, we are Irkutsk city. U city is located right in the middle of Siberia in Russia. We are like 300 kilometers away from Mongolian border and we are not really far from China. So if you are interested in exploring that part of the globe, stay tuned.
1:07 And guess who's helping me today? Nicola. >> Hello. Almost every Russian family has dacha different quality, different places, but it's a kind of a tradition, a kind of the way of living to have an apartment and have a dacha, a countryside house. When I was a kid, my family also, my parents also had dacha and I could spend the whole summer outside of the city. But when my parents were younger, they
1:39 use dacha mostly to to do some gardening, to grow vegetables, potato for themselves, to provide for themselves. Uh but nowadays, most of Russians they use dachas just to relax, just to have rest. But some still do gardening. So it is summer in the city and it's super hot. It's like 35 Celsius right now. 30 35 Celsius. So most of locals they are trying to escape from the city. So they travel to their
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