This is a beautiful and heartbreaking story. Fascinating beyond imagination. A story that would make a most interesting and eye-catching film – Who wants to write the screenplay?

 

 

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

 

In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga

 

“Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of straggly pine and birch forests scattered with sleeping bears and hungry wolves; steep-sided mountains; white-water rivers that pour in torrents through the valleys; a hundred thousand icy bogs. This forest is the last and greatest of Earth’s wildernesses. It stretches from the furthest tip of Russia’s arctic regions as far south as Mongolia, and east from the Urals to the Pacific: five million square miles of nothingness, with a population, outside a handful of towns, that amounts to only a few thousand people.

 

When the warm days do arrive, though, the taiga blooms, and for a few short months it can seem almost welcoming. It is then that man can see most clearly into this hidden world—not on land, for the taiga can swallow whole armies of explorers, but from the air…”

 

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