1%?! According to the 2014 survey https://fom.ru/Obraz-zhizni/11711 https://fom.ru/Obraz-zhizni/11711 , 75% Russians have ever went to pick up mushrooms, and 4

1%?! According to the 2014 survey https://fom.ru/Obraz-zhizni/11711 https://fom.ru/Obraz-zhizni/11711 , 75% Russians have ever went to pick up mushrooms, and 40% have done it in the last year before the survey. 8% personally know people who suffered from mushroom poisoning. This corresponds to my expectations: I'm from a neighbouring country, Belarus, and basically almost everyone around me has been picking up mushrooms. That's not just a culinary experience, but a way to relax: go to forest, disconnect from the world, unwind. (People also pick up blueberries and lingonberries for the same reasons.) Oh, and my classmate died from mushroom poisoning.