The local mentality also plays a role here - most of the population doesn't go anywhere during holidays and weekends, but stays either at home or in their summer cottages, small plots of land in the suburbs, scattered anywhere. These summer cottages were usually given agricultural wastelands - the slopes of ravines, or, on the contrary, hills, or forests, or some other patches of land, and over time, it was overgrown with small houses scattered here and there. Well, it ended with the fact that during Covid, people simply went there, sat there in the gardens, cooked jam and barbecued, and no one was in a hurry to leave. And considering that most of these houses have cellars filled with canned vegetables and fruits grown there - people didn't even go to the store much, what's the point of buying pasta in the store if you can walk two steps to the potato beds and dig it up for lunch.
In addition, cultural peculiarities also played a role - Orthodoxy, Islam and, suddenly, communist propaganda are quite strongly developed here, and all of them unanimously (a rare case when religion and communism are in solidarity with each other) repeat that going to parties, clubs, concerts and restaurants a lot is indecent and sinful. Well, as a result, although concerts in Russia are outwardly quite well attended, often no more than 1% of the population goes there. Everyone else simply does not go there at all.
Tourism is not very developed here either, many people don't go anywhere at all. Or they go - but it's some kind of wild tourism, when people go in small groups to walk in the forest, without even staying in a hotel.
Most often, people's entire vacation boils down to the fact that they simply go to their dacha. And there are two options - either a person starts digging beds hard, or hangs a hammock and sleeps in it for the entire vacation, or something in between. But in fact, people rarely go out and travel anywhere.
