Mildly interesting anthropological note: These people appear to be Bashkirs, which is a Turkic ethnic group with some East Asian admixture, which is typical of central Asia. But they are also the only ethnic group outside Western Europe where the dominant Y-DNA haplogroup is R-M269 (R1b), which is usually associated with the "Celtic" populations of Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Normandy, as well as the Basque.
Also, it's the abasement of this sort of thing that really bothers me; the cruel circumstances of it all. Imagine living in this shitty mining town in the Southern Ural, where, as writer Andrei Platonov put it, "even the rocks are melancholy", and struggling to maintain some measure of a dignified life as it snows sideways 8 months a year, and your fate is to lie frozen in the snow in your pajamas and house slippers, brutally dispatched by a drunk retard with a $70 scattergun.