Then, when I grew up, I began to go to the Chukchi with my hosts - Russian merchants and Yakutsk. O

FROM THE AUTHOR
From Leningrad to the river Yasachnaya about 11 thousand kilometers. There can be reached, for example, after three months of continuous driving. Go you must first train to Vladyvastoka, then on the big boat; the steamer need to change on a river boat, from a boat on a boat, with a shuttle to the horse, the horse deer, reindeer sled dog.
As a child I wandered with his family on the wooded valley of the river and its tributaries Yasachnaya in search of hunting prey. But as my father reeder did not have firearms, hunting is poorly fed us, and we often went hungry.
Every day I drove out of the woods for firewood hosts on dogs and wore them water from the river. I smoked furnace cleaning Haton - barn, feed the dog, arranged dogsledding, processed cow skin on the soles and dog - clothing. He worked reeder from early morning till night, sleeping on the floor in the kitchen, without a bed and blankets, never bathed and did not know the laundry. Shabby buckskin shirt and pants, worn next to the skin, were only my clothes for many years.
In high school I got a little know so poorly understood Russian language and was busy and before school and after school their usual work on the hosts. reeder At the lecture and came chilled and tired after chasing the cows and the river carried the water sledging owners.
Chukchi reindeer reeder came to town twice a year: once on holiday to visit a second time driven home to herds of deer Russian population. Each time the rulers of the city and merchants organized Chukchi booze and conducted trade with them. In a city where only about 300 people, counting the old, small and women - the arrival of the Chukchi was always a great event.
Then, when I grew up, I began to go to the Chukchi with my hosts - Russian merchants and Yakutsk. On the road, I was in their drivers - dog coachman, laid out for them in the snow fire, boil water, put up tents.
Then the civil war began. White came, we visited two or three years. They were taken from the natives of the skin and drove them in Japan and America, pricked reeder our deer taken guys - Yakut, Chukchi, Tungus - in his army.
Medium-Kolyma I went to Yakutsk year (through Indigirka, where eleven months spent in captivity in the rebels Yakut taёnav (1) On the Yakutsk reeder went to Leningrad two months up the Lena River, on the boat, boating, horseback riding, and finally from Irkutsk to poezde.
I went home in 1927. On the way to the Kolyma I met again with the Chukchi. About a month I lived in the Chukchi settlements Dyazhnёve Uellene and then I sat down on the American schooner Swenson and with the expedition "Dalgostorga" visited reeder all the villages of the northern coast of Chukotka, starting from and ending Uellena Chavnskay lip and the mouth of the Kolyma River.
In 1931, after graduation, I became a graduate student at the Institute of the North and traveled to Chukotka in the Far Eastern part of the organizing committee for the organization reeder krayvykankamu Chukotka reeder Autonomous District. I stayed there this time seven months: first lived in Anadyr, then drove to the bay Cross, in Providence Bay, the bay Lawrence, bully and other Chukchi settlement. Then I visited the Chukchi reeder living reeder on the shores of the Bay of the Chukchi and Bering Sea on the coast north of Anadyr. So I visited almost all the important points Chukotsii, reeder acquainted with life as the Chukchi coast, also tundra.
The first part of my book about the life of tundra people - Kolyma Chukchi district - fifteen or twenty years before the revolution. I describe the life of reindeer herders and palyavnika Imteurgina older - the father of the protagonist further parts of the story.
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