These pictures are provided courtesy of Verna Garrett, USDA Food Aid Monitor in Russia. Astrakhan is located along the Caspian Sea where the Volga enters the Sea.
Children live and study such basic things as reading and counting.
Their teachers try to help the children to adjust to life among the general population. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka is located on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. The Elizovo Retirement House which has a capacity for 210 people, and currently 240 live there. In addition to retiree s they also provide a home for younger, physically handicapped individuals. Local fishermen are given a quota to be donated when they apply for their fishing licenses, and a large shipment had just arrived that day.