>>2138 (OP)
I am not from the north, but from Moscow, but I have been to such places many times. What is an "urban-type settlement" in the Russian classification? It is not a city, but not a village either, it is a settlement specialized for certain activities for 1000-3000 inhabitants. If a military unit is located in the north, it is necessarily attached to the urban-type settlement with infrastructure, where families of servicemen live, another example - near Moscow there is an urban-type settlement Ateptsevo, most of its existence is devoted to the Elinar chicken factory, which supplies a third of the European part of Russia with chicken. A good urban settlement should have its own school, kindergarten, its own clinic, its own stores, independent electricity and sewage infrastructure, its own Russian post office to interact with online stores - all of these things are available in most Russian settlements as basic things. A very good village should also have its own cafe, a branch of two or three internet providers, maybe even a park, its own farms and indoor sports facilities (like a soccer stadium), commieblocks do not have paint falling off, and are also painted in pastel colors (light blue, dark orange, light yellow) rather than bright pink, or bright yellow. The election of the new head of the urban-type settlement shall be carried out democratically. And as for the answer to your question: the life of people there is not much different from the life in other urban-type settlements, but extreme conditions and threats to human beings bring additional moments in the life activity, which require responsibility.