My Modern Ukraine playlist: kzread.info/head/PLNq3y0OU1_BZ74NnBBvzSKRQRfPR9d31b

You are always mentioning your friend Dima. Are you two still friends today? If so have you ever thought about seeing if he could come onto your live stream for a Q&A?

Anyone sleeping on that stove once in his life knows how majestic it is... specially during 6 month winters... ❤ painting it every year was a tradition😊...

Thank You ,really enjoyed sharing your memories.

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

My grandfather built a log house in northern Saskatchewan, Canada back in 1931 when the government was giving away land during the depression. He ended up building two other houses up there for his sister's family and for his parents (as well as barns, sheds and granaries), so he ended up being an expert at it. The last photo I have is from 1962 and they were still standing - I would love to know what they look like now. Really enjoyed the video, thanks very much!

This is excellent work. It will be even more important in 200 years!

One of the few things I knew about my Ukrainian great grand parents who came to the US was that they slept above the oven back in Ukraine. I had no idea what that meant until I saw pictures like you have posted here. I just couldn’t imagine what kind of oven or stove it would have been, but now I have a better idea of what that meant ! Thank you for sharing your memories !

My god, you have more family photos in this single video than I have from my whole life.

@pamelajaye

Ай бұрын

Stop reading my mind! :-)

i always thought the stove with sleeping area on top was genius. if i could build my own house i'd have something like that. i dont like having no backups for when electricity goes out. i want a gas stove, fireplace, well, etc. Homes today are useless when the lights go out. like basements that flood when the sunk pump stops working.

That village would be such a nice quiet place to live far away from city madness

11:59 you were already John Wayne cowboy man even back then

I have read that in Latin American it used to be a common belief that the color blue repelled flys. Hence many door and window frames were painted blue to help keep flys out of the house, and blue tablecloths were used in restaurants. Btw your mom is always soooo cute in all of her photos. 🙂

@ivancho5854

28 күн бұрын

That's interesting. Thanks. 👍

Log houses where quickly adopted in Quebec when they realize French style stone houses are unappropriate with the climate. Also when metal stoves appear, they use summer kitchen where they move the stove to not heating the whole house when cooking.

My wife wanted a house with a pech for cooking. We came close with our new house which has an American-style stove wood stove. She also has fond memories of her summers in village in Russia. As mention before I wish my wife family would share more their history with me.

Good to see from irish boy

Those wooden log homes were made strong with the love necessary to keep your family safe and warm. It is sad to see nature take back what was so skillfully and lovingly built. There are few today willing to live where so few modern continences are available. Drinking water taken from the ground from hand dug wells using buckets, Out door pit toilets, Heating and cooking using cord wood cut by hand and washing clothes in the local river with all the neighbors. Life was hard but it was good. Good friends and family. Wonderful stories. Thank you for sharing. We should never forget.

This is the best history lesson. Thanks for sharing family pictures.

You're on top here Sergei, sharing your photos and memories. Thank you! And being a city boy like you, with family like yours, I've never heard about what your granpa did with the cooking pan before building the hous stove, so thanks again!

Other than the GIANT stoves/sleeping area, this could be most all country homes in the NW United states from turn of the century. Northern Idaho has many such homes - the main difference is that people lived quite a bit further apart.

I have noticed the custom of rugs on the wall but didnt know why. Of course there are many reasons but the chalk paint is a great reason. Charles

Golly, the Party appears to have done very little to uplift the lives of collective agricultural workers. _'Well, I suppose you may borrow the horse and wagon. But be quick about it. We have hundreds of others who need to borrow them as well.'_

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

The shortest end of the socialist stick was obviously given to the villagers.

@Dave-oz6yt

Ай бұрын

Sergi, that is so funny! 😂 Thank's for sharing. I love your videos.

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

@@Dave-oz6yt Thanks!

In northern states and in Canada during the Great Depression, homes were insulated with any scrap paper. Sears catalogs included. Interesting they used hay.

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

You can feed cows with hay. Sears catalog? Don't think so 😄

@captlazer5509

Ай бұрын

@UshankaShow Never kept a cow in the attic, you can order feed from Sears catalog. Western decadence, lol

Women were tough hard working people back then ,now they don't even know how to cook or even how to make gravy, the world has gotten to a sad state but happily we can look at happy memories like your channel! Thank you for the smiles and warm feelings of family and love

@ivancho5854

28 күн бұрын

Keep looking, there are plenty of good women. Make sure that you are a good enough man to catch her though. Good luck and all the best Gary. 👍

The photo with and axe and bow characterizes the way we played as children in the 80ties in Czechoslovakia pretty well. Sticks, stones, sometimes a rope or a wire if you were lucky to steal it somewhere.

lovly story 👍

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Back in the summer of 1993 my Uncle Bill (RIP) took me and my cousin to the Smokey Mountains in North Carolina you can still see log cabins similar to this even today ; though many are tourist shops or national historic museums today

I grew up in log cabin built sometime in the 20's. We had to rebuild in the early seventies. The original had a small space [about an inch] between the logs and the inside wall and this was filled with pine needles. Talk about a fire hazard. We got rid of that and basically had only the logs. We needed two heaters in the fish tank and the dog water froze overnight during the winter.

It is fascinating to see all those abandoned buildings. It seems the same in some rural areas of the USA. I watch Joe and Nic, visiting towns where people are slowly leaving. I live in the UK, where land gets redeveloped quite quickly.

@pamelajaye

Ай бұрын

I'm watching a guy named Nate Petroski who's building a homestead in West Virginia (speaking of rural areas in the USA). I can't remember how many acres but it's three digits. Tons of trees. At least that part of the ecosystem will be preserved... I only started watching it because of his ducks, but he's interesting to listen to. The first thing he built was an outhouse. Interesting. The outhouse up in the old village must be long long gone. Besides, who would ever take a picture of it?

Very very nice; thank you!

Thank you! That was really interesting and informing. Take care!

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Did i see a led zep album cover at the beginning?

I absolutely Love this channel, I although do not like that youtube overloads users with "DONATE TO JOE BIDEN ADS"

Brilliant job KZread! A commercial interrupted the discussion of the roof. And it was a commercial about roofing. Things like that never happen. :-)

Chalk walls are why Slavs got so good at squatting

Weve got places like this in saskatchewan where the small towns and villages have just died out. Its getting where farmers have to operate huge amounts of land just to stay afloat and allot of kids don't want to work the family farm so these towns that existed to supply the local agriculture are just dying out.

This way of stacking logs layer by layer with notches at the ends is also common here in Scandinavia. 👍

Interesting story about the placement of the stove. I think you said your mother told you I just don't want to rewind. Stories are good. Sometimes my mother would tell me stories about my father. He wasn't dead, he just didn't talk to us. And sometimes she could tell things about our grandparents. Not very much but a little bit. When I moved down here she told me that she had written down the story of her life for us. Unfortunately, When I finally looked at it I noticed that it was written in pencil - I just don't understand her pension for pencils - At least she photocopied it - and didn't contain anywhere near the stories that she told me when I was a teenager. My brother doesn't seem to care about the stories so maybe they'll die with me. If I can remember them. Every now and then I say to him "Hey did your mother ever tell you about when..." So I don't need to tell you to save stories for your children - they may not care right now. But maybe somebody who reads my long encyclopedic comments will realize that it's a good thing to do. It's like I read somewhere one time - mothers always take pictures of their kids, But they don't want to be in any pictures because they look messy today or they're too fat or their hair isn't brushed or whatever stupid thing. Trust me when you're gone, your kids will wish that you were in pictures. Maybe that's less of a problem now with cell phones that have cameras. As long as someone backs them up. But don't hide from the camera.

@ivancho5854

28 күн бұрын

Great comment. 👍 I hope that you write down the stories which she told you for your kids and I should do the same for my son. All the best from bonnie Scotland.

I am thinking about the building methods used there, and how they might be applied to construction today. I like the idea of sand boxes around the perimeter as opposed to gutters. We used to have tin roofs, they were painted with green LEADED paint, of course not today for the toxic lead and the prohibitive cost of tin. But if find an abandoned and falling down farmhouse in Ohio, often this roof still exists!

I trully love kiev 19. Now it's more expensive then it should be/ But I'm happy that I have every rangefinder kiev 2..4. Focusing with that thing is very satisfying. Jupiter-3 50/1.5 is my only one pressssssious piece of glass.

Always a good video.

That is interesting about finding the best position for the brick stove. In UK you can leave bricks outside in the weather and they will be undamaged. Here in Croatia the bricks will disintegrate. I assume they are porous so they soak up rain then when it freezes the frost bursts them apart.

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

My guess - stove bricks are different from regular construction bricks

in Finland that kind of blue paint is called Russian blue

Thank you for sharing this video.

Thank you for sharing the pictures of the cabin, especially the fireplace as I've become very interested in the complex multi chamber fireplaces with the sleeping deck. Were they in most homes of the village areas, or was your grandfather one of the smarter builders?

Blue paint PERHAPS has Copper in it, and might make the wood more resistant to rotting?

This box is standing around the house (zavalinka завалинка).

Regarding blue paint: I wonder if the collective farm buildings were painted blue...😉

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

That's what I was wondering

@ivancho5854

28 күн бұрын

​@@UshankaShow The colour looks very similar to that on some GAZ trucks. 🤔

is nice home darlinks

I think you have more pictures of this house than I have of the house I grew up in for 16 years. I'm sad about that. The visuals of the bedroom I shared with my brother and my parents' bedroom Live only in my head. I do have my mother's bureau which people like to call a dresser. Their bedroom set I can almost see it. We sold my father's bureau when I moved in. It was in the hallway. I'm not sure why. And their bed which was a swing away. It had a really long headboard with sliding things. And then at the top there was some sort of attachment and there were two twin beds attached to it and they swung apart. Apparently my parents liked to sleep by themselves. Okay. But when they got older my father kicked my mother out to the bedroom down the hall, because she snored. And then he died so when I moved in I got the master bedroom. The other two bedrooms are not even as big as the one my brother and I shared as a kid I don't think, and yet both of them have queen size beds in them. It's really interesting What you can squeeze into a room. (We have a lot of tall bookcases and shelving units - But that hideous thing from the '80s which was called an entertainment center? We finally got that out of the living room. It was ugly. Replaced it with some cubes from Target and a bunch of furniture from my old apartment mixed with my parents living room furniture and our old table that pulled out that had leaves. It's really fancy but we never open it.)

После войны строили из тонкого бревна, на скорую руку. А довоенные и особенно дореволюционные избы делались качественно. Кстати, как у вас такие лома назывались? У меня версия, что деревянные дома из сруба все назывались избами, потому что "из бревна". А хата это саманный дом из глины и веток, потому что построили как-то и "хай так будэ", потому что в степной зоне лес дорого притащить

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

Просто деревянная хата, имелся в виду дом из бревен. А если стены из глины - это мазанка, традиционная украинская хата в центральной и южной частях Украины

Glad we are sending aid to Ukraine. I hear old men and young women are fighting now. Glad your taxes support it too.

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

That's how America destroyed Hitler. The history tends to repeat itself. Many Americans were against helping the Great Britain back in 1939. Look up "America First" committee. Then almost 200K Americans died in Europe fighting Hitler. Putin will not stop just like Hitler. He needs to be stopped.

@davidhudson5452

Ай бұрын

@@UshankaShow You got that right

@slickwoodworker3023

Ай бұрын

@@UshankaShow If only some of my fellow Americans would read/understand history, they would understand that Putin has to be stopped now.

I am sure you have said before but what is the name of the village?

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

Zhowid

11:02 in what kind of game do you tose Axes ad shot with Bow at people? :D

@MichaelJohnson-tw7dq

Ай бұрын

A FUN GAME!

Comrade Sergei, i have 2 questions if you don't mind me asking... where is this and how much can an abandoned house like you grandparents' be bought for now?

@UshankaShow

25 күн бұрын

Northern Ukraine. Not a good spot right now to buy a house due to the russian aggression. But there are plenty of abandoned home over there. From $500 and up, land not included.

@timothius9000

25 күн бұрын

can the land be bought as well? or is that not how houses are sold in Ukraine?

That was an awesome video I’ve wondered about those stoves for years now. Because they are the same all accross Ukraine and Russia. So all that generation knew how to build maybe?

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

No. They had "pechnik" - people that built brick stoves for the villagers.

Is your father still alive if not when did he pass

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

He passed away on December 3, 2023

@jacobglover3868

Ай бұрын

I lost my grandfather in 2019 and just lost my grandmother on my birthday this year

@UshankaShow

Ай бұрын

@@jacobglover3868 My father-in-law died on my birthday two years ago