Along Russia’s Volga River, Back to the Simple Life – The New York Times

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Along Russia’s Volga River, Back to the Simple Life

Oksana Yushko has been photographing Russians who have fled big city life to get back to the land – and basics – along the Volga River.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/along-russias-volga-river-back-to-the-simple-life/?&_r=0&module=Endslate&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=EndSlate&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=The%20Simple%20Life%20on%20Russia%E2%80%99s%20Vo

In 1997, Oksana Yushko moved from her home in eastern Ukraine to Moscow for an accountant’s job at a large herbal medicine company. It was a lucrative position, but soul-crushing. Every day was exactly like the next, she said, like a Russian version of the Bill Murray movie “Groundhog Day.” Seven years later, she left the security of her job to become a photographer, transforming her humdrum life into one of travel, adventure and no regrets.