Here are a couple of Mutni Materik’s main buildings. The first is the new school just built, the pride of the town at this point. Russians are very well educated, even in villages education is taken seriously. That plus the wealth of natural resources this huge country encompassing ten time zones has makes me think that they have the potential to have a wonderful future, even if the path there is long and difficult. The second is the headquarters of the regional collective farm. So far no computer hookups, and most desks have an abacus alongside their new calculators.