Very often you can see lists and ratings of the best cities for startups or business. They are selected based on a bunch of different factors, sometimes it's the number of venture deals or the amount of investment, or maybe the number of startup headquarters. But all you need to know is that this does not affect the success or failure of an individual startup at all, just like in these leading cities, and a good project can be done anywhere.

I found one example by chance. Do you know where Yugorsk is? I drove past it and that's how I found out, otherwise it's a small town of 30,000 people, not far from Khanty-Mansiysk. The best place for an entrepreneur? Hardly - no specialists, no support tools, no infrastructure.

So, after many brands left Russia, their goods became much more expensive, but hardly anything has risen in price as much as drum cymbals (4-6 times). And I just decided to buy one in 2023. While I was marveling at the prices, a professional drummer friend recommended that I buy a Russian brand, which, according to him, makes "really cool stuff." Previously, prices were slightly higher than foreign mass brands, so no one paid attention, but now they are both better and cheaper. I bought it and it turned out to be true. So imagine my surprise when, opening the package, I saw the return address in Yugorsk. The shock didn't go away for a long time - cymbal production in Yugorsk. I would understand something in IT, something related to the taiga, but not the production of musical instruments.