The Sand Buried Village of Shoyna

Shoyna is a minor line-fishing hamlet located on the Kanin Peninsula inwards Northern Russia. Situated on the border of the arctic circle , the inhabitants of this coastal hamlet has to suffer non solely the mutual frigidity but the huge sum of sand that stretches for tens of kilometers all along the coast of the White Sea.

The dunes continually migrate upwards together with downwards the coast past times the activity of the westerly air current , together with tin bury houses upwards to the roof inwards a unmarried night. Residents lead keep precaution non to unopen the door at nighttime , because past times morn , it mightiness non open. The hamlet has a bulldozer that is oftentimes inwards activity , earthworks out homes.

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The hamlet was settled inwards the 1930s past times line-fishing families because of the abundance of fish together with ocean life inwards the waters. By the 1950s , it grew to a pretty large village amongst 1 ,500 residents. Together they owned to a greater extent than than 70 vessels. But reckless trawling over the decades decimated the fish population together with eventually the fishery collapsed. Today , merely 3 hundred people alive at Shoyna supported mainly past times unemployment benefits together with pensions. Some earn a living from hunting. There are large unwrap of geese inwards the region.

More than one-half of the hamlet is straightaway buried nether sand dunes deposited past times the wind. It is idea that harm to permafrost together with devastation of the ocean bottom released the sand.

The hamlet is connected past times neither roads nor railroads. Transportation to the exterior footing is past times send or air. There is a civilian aerodrome consisting of a 650-meter dirt runway.

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Remains of the line-fishing fleet 1 time totaling to a greater extent than together with then 70 the ships. Aug. 2005

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Remains of the line-fishing fleet 1 time totaling to a greater extent than together with then 70 the ships straightaway are solely a identify for children's games Aug. 2005