> maybe you really want to enjoy what it's like to own a utility that is used by 1 billion+ people? but is it really a utility if there's no use to it?  > and it would be really useful in a wide country where everything is super far apart like fucking northern russia? northern towns are usually supplied by planes and helicopters because population density there is not large enough to warrant building roads to them.    it's mainly because of the way soviets created northern cities. they were either military only or served as homes to prospector teams. everything was supplied by planes. after the union fell, most population of those towns just left them because there was no longer a reason for these towns to exist.  i've looked up this place in particular, it's a town named belgo (population of 300 people) in far east. it does have a road connecting it to closest large town (komsomolsk-na-amure, population of 200k people). it was destroyed in fall of 2013 because of the flood and rebuilt nearby. this call with putin happened in spring of 2014 so it seems they didn't have the time to build the road yet at that time.
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