And again, yet again I was surprised at absurdity of what I've seen! The building I counted to be a church was ... a butter factory*.
[A local woman from Solenoye Ozero told me that in the past here ran a coach tract to Kamen-na-Obi, there is an old railway to Barnaul and in that direction - Kulunda. «There was a time when people here kept a lot of cattle! After collective farms started they built all those butter factories to process milk. At first that was good - butter, cheese... They made casein of skimmed milk. But later things got all wrong - they didn't bring hay in and it rotted, then winter came and cattle became emaciated. By spring the half was gone.»]
I took a lot in, first of all the fact that in the sticky web of fear nobody dares not only to point at a flaw but even notice it. No critique! And that means no hope for improvement. Such a sad life against the background of the joyful nature with the great richest, the most plentiful land, under the feet!
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* That actually was a church building converted into a butter factory. At the times of persecution against the Church in the Soviet Union from 1920s through 1990 churches were not just destroyed but desecrated. Church buildings were mainly used for economic purposes (factory, storage house, grain elevator) and the toilets were routinely placed in altars. If a church was converted in a recreation centre or a cinema the stage was made in the altar; if it was converted to a hostel the church interior was divided into several floors.