Abandoned babies
Infants or small children being abandoned is not considered common practice in Russia, there are a few hundred thousand orphans in the country, but considering the size and population, that’s still relatively low. So it was obviously a surprise when a baby was found all alone in a trash can, nonetheless in the middle of nowhere. Orphans in Russia were a serious problem after the second world war, when so many males and other civilians had been killed by the Nazi invasion and until the wars end. But after that generation, the situation had improved, far from perfect, but not as drastic as in the past.