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A Miraculous Rescue
The treacherous crust
Remarkable luck
A dream in hand
In the central Priobye, where the city of Nyagan now stands, there was a small logging outpost called Nyagan in the mid-1960s, which was devoted to timber harvesting. In the spring, the forest was floated down the river, and near the settlement, At Vasykin Dacha, the timber was bundled and towed by boats down the Ob River, and then further on to Salekhard.
The work for the foresters was extremely hard; the men were rarely at home, always at work from dawn until dusk. The women either worked or took care of the children and the household. The school only went up to fifth grade, and after that, children were sent to a boarding school in the district.
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We met each new night with dread—this was our greatest ordeal, a nightmare, something unbearable. The cold wouldn’t let us sleep; the night stretched on endlessly. Every so often we would slip into oblivion, but the cold would wake us, our bodies shaking as if with fever. It was all terrifying.
By the second night in the forest, exhausted and unable to sleep, we finally drifted into a deep stupor toward morning. When the cold and our shivering bodies woke us again, we found ourselves lying covered in snow—it had fallen during the night. It was overcast and cold during the day as well—there was no sun, so we had to keep warm just by walking.
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