Only five other people live in Galina Yermolova's tiny Siberian village Pikhtovoye, isolated from the world by the dense taiga - swampy coniferous forest - and a swamp. 

Every week, she travels 16 kilometers through the forest to the nearest post office in a larger village to collect the post, supplies and pensions for her neighbors. 

"We used to go by tractor. It would take us three hours," the 56-year-old said. The couple's son recently gave them a life-changing gift: a huge-wheeled monster truck built by a friend that can plow through the muddy tracks much faster. 

With her husband at the wheel, Yermolova can now reach the post office in an hour. 

Once in the bigger village of Imshegal, home to around 100 people, she climbs down from the machine using a makeshift cloth step hanging from the back. There, Yermolova loads basic goods, which have already come from a town some 100 kilometers away, onto her truck.