"Soviet Babushki" is a social group of elderly women in former Soviet states, mostly Russia, that denotes a family support-system which relies on the intense involvement of grandparents (mostly grandmothers) in childcare and housework. Currently this term is widely know in English speaking world, emphasising on the idea of warm-hearted, caring women, who are young enough to have a few pleasures of life, but mostly socialising and being visible a lot in public spaces. Some people are well aware of the term, thanks to some famous people such as a YouTuber Bald and Bankrupt often mentioning "babushki" in his videos, while he travels in Post-Soviet countries. In the Russian-speaking world, the concept transcends the literal family definition of grandmother. In Russian-speaking countries, all middle-aged and older women are, regardless their family situation, commonly called babushki. Unlike in many other cultures, in Russian-speaking countries this is not seen as a derogative term. Rather, the concept reflects a distinct mode of the social reproduction of motherhood. Until the end of the twentieth century, the expectation that women would have children earlier in life and be able to become young babushki energetic enough to assist their daughters with childcare was widely accepted (Perelli-Harris and Isupova 2013: 143-6). This description is taken from in-formality.com. Babushki are usually joyful, caring, talkative, energetic, well aware and informed, but financially poor women, with whom you may have an interesting conversation on latest events not just in your neighbourhood, but also in a whole country, whom you usually would meet by your apartment building. This piece of art by an unknown artist was painted by a bench in front of an old Soviet apartment building in Vilnius, Lithuania. It represents an idea of a very commonly known picture in post-soviet countries, where many elderly people, mostly women are usually very poor and often abandoned, who have their only last pleasures of life left, which is sitting outside their building, observing the neighbours, chatting between themselves, sharing the information on their last shopping, plans for dinner and etc. Such benches is a very usual object in front of the entrance in post-soviet apartment buildings. Everybody from Russia and other post-soviet countries are well familiar with this picture.