The legend that Alaska has a shortage of available women is an absolute demographic fact, but ironically, across the Bering Strait there are a lot of hot Russian brides looking for foreign husbands, because Russia actually has a shortage of available men.

According to the 2000 census, there were 114 single Alaskan men for every 100 single Alaskan women, but those figures are actually too optimistic, because Alaska has become home to a large thriving lesbian community. So the facts for a lonely man from Alaska are actually worse than the numbers indicate. The shortage of available single women is so dire that it is in fact the subject of many bad jokes: What do you call a beautiful woman in Juneau? A tourist!

The problem for Russian women, attractive as they are, is that men tend to die young from drinking on a scale that is hard to imagine. Until recently, they were supposed to drink slightly more than twice as much as men in the US or the EU. However, some British researchers did not think the difference was enough to explain the much higher rates of alcohol poisoning and liver failure until they realized that many Russian men also consume large amounts of commercial alcohol in the form of items such as cologne. , antifreeze. and household cleaners.

Therefore, it is not really surprising that the average life expectancy of Russian men is only 58 years and many men already suffer from alcohol-related health problems before they reach 40. Worse still, alcohol, which actually became a big problem only after the fall of the USSR has also led to an explosion in domestic violence, and that is a major factor driving women from Russia and many other areas of Eastern Europe to sign up as mail order brides. .

So it seems that Russian women seeking husbands and Alaskan men seeking wives would be a perfect match.

First, the standard of living in Alaska is much higher than in Alaska and most Alaskan men could support a wife in a style that most Russian women can hardly dream of.

Second, there are too many women in Russia, with a population of over 140 million, to easily meet the needs of men in Alaska, and that doesn’t even take into account women from Ukraine or other Eastern European countries.

Third, the Alaskan weather will not scare a Russian girl or any other Eastern European woman. Even the Crimea can be brutally cold in winter.

Fourth, many of the women are hot enough to melt the permafrost. In general, the women of the former Soviet bloc are obsessed with beauty and fitness and even an average girl in Moscow or Kiev would attract attention in Fairbanks.

So why aren’t more Alaskan men looking for mail order brides from Russia or other Eastern European countries? Probably the main reason is that they don’t really understand how the modern international dating industry works. They are probably worried about being scammed, but today the mail order bride industry is extremely concerned about scammers. Men who use a good agency and a little common sense probably have no more chance of being scammed than any man when he meets a pretty girl anywhere and maybe even less. Really, lonely Alaskan men and gorgeous Russian brides look like a match made in heaven.