Volga lights № 5 Renaissance street. (1999)

View of the arriving train (top).

Persons of internally displaced persons from the former Soviet Union republics, their answers to the question of where they came to Russia are heard behind the scenes (synchronously).

Refugees talk about their lives before leaving for Russia, about the reasons for leaving for Russia due to the war, the death of relatives, lack of work and prospects, lack of means of subsistence, because of the persecution of Russians by local nationalists (synchronously).

View of the platform and the arriving train (top).

Head of the Territorial migration service of the Saratov region P. M. Petrakov tells about the number of refugees and IDPs adopted in the field, enumerates the regions from which the refugees arrived and internally displaced persons, the decision of problems of housing for immigrants by increasing its construction, the number built for the IDPs housing project in Saratov region (synchronous).

Views of the platform and standing train (top).

Panoramas and views of new residential buildings built on the outskirts of Saratov for immigrants.

People on the platform.

People on balconies and in the courtyards of houses in the village of Krasny Tekstilshchik.

Valentina Mironova and her son, who came from Turkmenistan, in a new apartment.

Mironova washes the Windows on the balcony.

Petrakov gives examples of private assistance to migrants, says about N. N. Shepelenko, who built a village for refugees at his own expense in the Kalininsky district of the Saratov region (synchronously).

Panorama of the field and part of the village of Lebedka, built by Shepelenko.