In Soviet Union of the 80s a male person with rural origins aged over 18 was considered capable of building a wooden house by himself (or little help from other males in the family) by default. Nowadays you can hardly find someone who is not a carpenter professionally but still capable of building.
Yeah, and that’s why most of the modern rural Russia reminds everyone of the 1920s southern states in America.
It was eye-opening to end up at a photography exhibition by a guy who did government-backed photography in the south in 20s and see the same house my babushka used to live in.
But frankly, it doesn’t mean these were _good_ houses.
