Without trucks, cars or any other form of modern transport, Agafia navigates the local terrain by foot. She showed the filmmakers the pair of clever homemade skis that enable her to traverse the rugged landscape to fetch wood, food and water.

Agafia finally said goodbye to her long-time home in 2021. During a welfare check, officials found the hut to be in a poor state of repair. Following a public appeal, Russian billionaire industrialist Oleg Deripaska funded the construction of a new cabin nearby. Given the remote mountain locale, the structure had to be built off-site and reassembled piece by piece.

According to The Siberian Times, Agafia still has a modest lifestyle in the single-storey wooden home, which features a small stove and a veranda.

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