Among Russian celebrities, there are many who were born in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and began to prepare for a stellar career from childhood. However, there are stars who were born in settlements far from large cities, but despite this they achieved fame and influence.
1. Vyacheslav Myasnikov (actor, humorist, musician)
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The birthplace of Vyacheslav Myasnikov is the village of Lugovoy in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. During Vyacheslav's childhood, Lugovoy could only be reached by boat, plane and helicopter. In his youth, Myasnikov loved motorcycles, and was also interested in the work of Yevgeny Petrosyan and Vladimir Vinokur: he recorded and memorized their performances. Vyacheslav was introduced to music by a chemistry teacher, who taught him to play the guitar. There was no music school in the village.
2. Anastasia Ivleeva (blogger, TV presenter)
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Anastasia was born in the village of Razmetelevo, Leningrad Region. The distance from this settlement to St. Petersburg along the highway is 25 km. In 1991, when the future celebrity was born, about 3000 people lived in Razmetelevo. Ivleeva moved to Moscow at the age of 24, before that she worked as a nail master and hostess in a nightclub in St. Petersburg.
3. Ilya Prusikin (musician, leader of the group "Little Big")
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Ilya was born in the village of Ust-Borzya, Chita region. Now it belongs to the Trans-Baikal Territory. The distance to the nearest large city of Chita from Ust-Borzi is about 300 km. Prusikin lived in the village until he was 11 years old. There he did the housework, rode a cow and every Saturday morning ran to take a queue for bread.
4. Sati Casanova (singer, TV presenter)
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Sati's homeland is the village of Verkhniy Kurkuzhin of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. Sati was born into a large family, she has three younger sisters. Upper Kurkuzhin is located 60 km from Nalchik. Casanova lived in the village until she was 12 years old, and then changed her place of residence with her family, moving to Nalchik. In her youth, Casanova was shy about her rural origin. It seemed to her that the past life with cows, chickens and other animals in the village was shameful. When Sati started living in Moscow, she tried to hide her Caucasian accent.
5. Evgeni Plushenko (figure skater, champion)
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In early childhood, Plushenko lived in Jamku, a rural-type settlement in the Khabarovsk Territory. The distance from the village to the nearest large city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur is 163 km. He lived in Jamku Plushenko until he was three years old. Yevgeny's parents worked on the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. The house of the future skater was a wooden trailer, in which several families lived at once. The climate of the Far East periodically undermined Yevgeny's health; in the first years of his life, the future champion often caught cold and fell ill with pneumonia.
