>>/24811/
> But when I saw the Mongolian faces of the local people, and that the place was a exception among soviet republics that had Buddhist religion, I suddenly remembered that a Russian poster on /kc/ told me about the place.
It also may be Tuva, it is Mongolian and Buddhist, and located at Far East near China. But this guy is from Kalmykia, it is known story.
Story says that he was fighter pilot who was been shot down and became prisoner in USSR. He tried to kill himself with sword but failed and remained alive, so he was afraid to return back because it is dishonor or something like this, and decided to stay in USSR.
Here is the article in Russian: https://www.mk-kalm.ru/social/2018/10/29/posledniy-kamikadze-yaponii-zhil-v-kalmykii.html
>>/24817/
> Never seen people knocking on a gate.
People do it sometimes, knocking and using voice is better that just one voice. When there are no doorbells of course.
Carpet is interesting, looks like my own wall carpet, but with slightly different ornament.