Alisa Gorshenina's ghostly portraits of Yakshina, one Russia's dying villages, have earned her recognition as one of the rising stars of the country's art scene.
YAKSHINA, Russia — Broken glass cracks beneath Alisa Gorshenina’s feet as she wanders through her old kindergarten.
Yakshina is one of Russia's dying villages. Around 20,000 are now entirely abandoned, according to official figures. Around 36,000 others have fewer than 10 residents each.Alisa Gorshenina poses with a cardboard boar she found in an abandoned school in Yakshina, Russia.Gorshenina's ghostly portraits of Yakshina have earned her recognition as one of the rising stars of Russia’s art scene.
The 1990s were hard for millions of Russians, with mass unemployment and shortages of basic essentials, including food. “I dreamed of leaving the village,” she says. “Mom told me about Nizhny Tagil and we would come here to visit relatives. And to me, as a child, it seemed full of these huge castles, it was like a fairy tale.”In 2000, Tatyana Gorshenina eventually persuaded her husband that there was no future for them or their two daughters in Yakshina. The family moved to Nizhny Tagil, the factory town of 350,000 people located a three-hour drive away.
Lubov Evdokimova, 51, is one of the few remaining villagers. She lives in an apartment opposite to the one where Alisa Gorshenina grew up, and worked at the local school for 15 years before it was closed down.Denis Sinyakov / for NBC News Nafedova and her co-author, Nikita Mikrtchan, found that around 200,000 people each year leave Russia’s villages to find employment and better living conditions in towns and cities.The decline of the countryside began with the rapid urbanization during the Soviet period. “The USSR began with 85 percent of its population residing in the countryside, and ended with 74 percent of them as city dwellers,” their study notes.
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