No apartments, small houses in russian style, maybe 60-100 feet apart, with fields outside.

Such small villages usually had some small factory/farm, and young people (later than in cities though, like 10-12), would hop on train to bigger city for school, younger education was done by like 1 teacher, with generic education, like writing/reading/literature/math. (But our education structure is also very different, that’s basically all kids learn at first). Bigger villages have/had bigger schools, with more differentiated teachers and full education available, or at least generic one