And laughter and sin in the truth about the dying villages:
In the absence of prerequisites for economic development, many small towns and villages are trying to attract tourists. For example, the Great Ustyug shattered the brand of Santa's homeland: now the 58-thousand population is fed on the account of a character that no one believes after the age of seven. Furthermore: Snowmen registered with him Kostroma, Alesh Popovich - Rostov the Great. The authorities of Pereslav-Zalessky signed the Thirteenth Kingdom. In time, the heads of the city of Myshkin, the village of Kukoba and the village of Ermakovo of the Yaroslavl region broke up, registering as their inhabitants Mysku-Norušku, Baba-Yagu and Kuroku Ryabu. And the flow of excursion buses to their rough hole grows every year.

Kolobok replaced Lenin as a tourist brand in the Ulyanovsk region, and in Tver it was decided that the homeland of the Immortal Koshchev must be located in the Stary Caves. In the guide to the Kaliningrad region you can find the title: "Zelenogradsk - the homeland of Buratino". The benefit of mutual cooperation is evidenced by the fact that in 2004 Santa Claus of the Great Ustyug made an official visit to the homeland of his wooden partner.