A husband and wife are resting at their old dacha on the banks of the Moskva River in the village of Agafonovo, Moscow Region. A dacha is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of Russian-speaking and other post-Soviet countries. A cottage or shack serving as a family's main or only home, or an outbuilding, is not considered a dacha, although some dachas recently have been converted to year-round residences and vice versa.