>>116055 (OP) Is this true? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irkutsk#Health >Despite its remoteness, Irkutsk was reported in 2004 to have the highest HIV infection rate in Russia.[39] Tens of thousands of drug addicts, mostly ethnic Russians in their mid to late teens are infected. The number of reported AIDS cases increased by more than 10,000% during the 1999–2000 period. >Although the epidemic, which started in 1999, is reported to have slowed down, Irkutsk will lose tens of thousands of its working age population from 2010 onwards. This is one of the reasons Irkutsk's male life expectancy, at 53 years, is one of the lowest in all of Russia. Preventive measures are in place to prevent the spread of the epidemic to the generation which was born after the breakup of the USSR Where did the injectable drugs come from?
>>116055 (OP) hey irkutsk anon how are you? heres a couple questions -how often do you hang out at lake baikal? -did you ever ride a farry on the angara/lena? if so how far up did you go? ive seen a lot of 90´s german documentaries were they went upstream to some old gulagtowns etc -have you ever traveled a long distance with the transsib? -lets assume youre ethnic russian, what are the other ethnic people there like? -apart from social media and video games what is life for young people there like? do they hang out a lot in nature?