Every year, volunteers from the Russian Technological University travel to help Agafya Lykova. You can watch a video about these trips on the TV MIREA channel. Channel link:    / @mirearu  
The video used materials from the trips of RTU MIREA students to Agafya Lykova. Link to videos about Agafya Lykova TV MIREA:    • 10 ДНЕЙ В СВЯТОЙ РУСИ. Агафья Лыкова  

How the Lykovs lived all the years of hermitage is now not so difficult to say, especially for those who know the local conditions well. The Lykovs, like all peasants who have lived on individual farms for centuries, perfectly mastered all types of peasant business. They knew how to do everything that was required for a normal life. But in the conditions in which they found themselves, any work required ingenuity, ingenuity and great effort. And some of the work had to be abandoned altogether. A very limited number of gardening and any other tools, a limited number of utensils for cooking. Several cast iron pans, pans. Cups, bowls, spoons all made of wood. All containers for storing food supplies for the winter tues, boxes of various sizes were made of birch bark. By the way, this is the best container for storage, and this container is used to this day throughout Siberia.
There was absolutely no iron nails, bolts, screws, staples, etc. The absence of all this did not allow doing much that even in their conditions would have been easy and simple to make. Here I mean carpentry, carpentry and any other work that could significantly improve their life.
Clothing and shoes were a serious problem. Everything that was brought from the "world" in taiga conditions quickly fell into disrepair. There was one opportunity to make clothes ourselves. They only had hemp at their disposal. This large annual bast fiber plant, when properly cared for and processed, produced fairly strong fiber. They managed to preserve and maintain in working order a loom, which in Siberia was called krosna. It was not difficult to make a cross with an instrument. During the war, krosna could be seen in many peasant huts.
The hardships of the Lykovs' life as a hermit
Agafia Lykova