Tuesday, 24 April 2018

Babushka Of Baikal.76 year old woman who still skates using her 1943 homemade skating shoes.


She is used to skating long distances.



 Lyubov Morekhodova from Siberia is a pensioner with a unique story.She is 76 years old but lives in cold weather and is quite fit and healthy too.
she also remarkably skates across the Baikal river everyday.



She learnt to skate at the age of seven and shortly thereafter her father made her skate shoes by cutting a metal saw and inserting it into pieces of wood which she then tied to Valenki (traditional felt boots).

 Her husband died in 2011 and Lyubov lives alone. she gets visits from her grandchildren and family members. For a long time her family have tried to appeal to her to move to the city, but she insists on staying because she is happy living in the midst of Siberia.

 The Retired technology engineer who lives alone in a plain house and and wakes up at 5.30 am to feed her cows and takes care of her dear animals has a cat,dogs,roosters,hens, calves,cows and bulls. 






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