Russian stuff

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As pure curiosity:

I've tried and used Scandinavian (Sweden, Finland, Norway) and Canadian gear and stuff (books, knives, axes... traditionnal and modern), which I generally found very good and well designed. No real surprise as these countries have large wild cold climate areas.

Looking at my world map, I noticed that another country has large wild areas in most possible climate. So what about Russia? I pretty aware that most of their industrial production is low quality, but what about traditionnal stuff ? There has been many "natives" left in Siberia and other areas, even during Soviet years. Why can't you see any of these? Has anyone infos about these.

As a side notes to those who intend to answer this thread.
1) please stick to technical aspects, while not necessarly wrong I'd prefer to minimize a political digressions.
2) please, no "Spetnaz" goofy stuff.
 
The thing I first thought of was clothing.

I saw a documentary about this guy (Aussie IIRC) that went to the coldest place on Earth. He bought a hat in Moscow and as soon as he got close to the really cold places people were telling him that his hat was a POS and he should really think about buying a decent one.

Other than this, I cant think of anything the Ruskies make that is superior to N Euro stuff, especially any kind of cutting implements.
 
From my experience, don't touch Russian (or old Soviet) stuff for anything except collector interest.
 
True traditionnal russian stuff for cold places? Vodka and brown tobacco.
 
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