As a collector of gems, minerals, and fossils I hear that a lot of high quality stones and fossils come from Russia. Are there a lot of mines and or shops around where you live?

I was born in a mining town, and coal mining is a great pride of my native region. If interested, you can search for information about the Kuznetsk coal basin.
Also, if I am not mistaken, a lot of minerals are mined in the Urals. I was passing through those places, and it is very beautiful there!

For you, what's your ideal temperature range?

Probably around 18-20 degrees Celsius? I don't like it when it's cold, but I suffocate when it's hot,,

Being from Russia, are the winters there the stuff of LEGEND as I've heard, or no different than winters in western countries? Basically, in Alaska, you have to keep your car running or it will freeze its so cold. Does that happen in Russia too?

This is true! Also, some cars take a long time to warm up before hitting the road.

As a person living in a temperate climate, I am used to very low temperatures. Quite calmly in the middle of winter, the temperature can reach up to -40 Celsius. And it's cold without high humidity! To the east, in the same Yakutia, the temperature drops to -70, and I have no idea how people live there.

Honestly, I love winter, but I would like to live where there is not much snow and cold :0

Do you have snowplows and similar equipment, or are the Russia people so badass they shovel everything? How high can the snow get there?

Yes, we have special snow removal equipment! But for some reason, it is always lacking where there is a lot of snow... Therefore, the Russians are really badass with their shovels
The height of snowdrifts can be from a meter to two, somewhere like that.

Damn! Hailstorms, ice and sleet too? Do you guys/gals Iceskate? How about snowmobiles? Do you have certain mountain chains you snowboard or ski on like we do?

Of course we have it all.
There is a rather popular ski resort Sheregesh in my region, but I have never been there :(

Hopefully I'll be able to visit your beautiful country someday and enjoy that ski resort. :D
Thank you for all the cool facts about Russia, friend. :3

I've always been a little interested in small Russian communities and neighborhoods, like how people act to each other over there normally.

I doubt there's much interesting to learn about the US, but I know a fair bit about my State of Arizona, to which we are the only place where the Saguaro Cactus grows (y'know those cactuses with that plenty of cartoons has)

Wow, that's an interesting fact! Thanks for the information!

Honestly, I may have misunderstood your question, so please correct me.

I grew up in a small town where many people know each other, but this is clearly not a community. One way or another, this is more of an urban environment, so the neighborhood is not so important. You can nod to each other when you meet on the landing, or you can just walk by and not say hello anymore (this also depends on the people themselves).
There are many villages in Russia, it so happened that I spent little conscious time in such places, but there people communicate well with each other, being neighbors, because they live side by side for generations.
At the moment I am in rented apartments and I see no reason to communicate with the rest of the tenants, because one way or another I will leave this place, but if I finally settled somewhere, I would definitely make friends with the neighbors!

Ah, that's pretty much what I wanted to know actually! But yeah I'm always a little bit bad with my English despite being a native speaker so, sorry.
But still, pretty nice to know~

Any country you have visited or want to visit?

I have never traveled abroad. I thought for a long time and, probably, I would like to visit Italy and the state of California in the USA. I love the sunny and warm vibes of these places and the historicity of Italy! (thanks to the assassin games series)