Талый плёс
The place
Talyy Plyos ("Thawed Reach") in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Ivdel/Severouralsk area (northern middle Urals, Russia), at a true elevation of ~200 m (the listed 0 m is erroneous), Siberian-Ural taiga. Continuous Ural Russia cluster (batches 260-376). Fishing/riverside shelter (talyy plyos, "ice-free reach", refers to a river section that stays unfrozen in winter, iconic for pre-freeze fishing; the area also carries the heritage of the Yenisei basin near Ivdel, Sverdlovsk Oblast covering 200,000 km² of the Urals, and Ivdel, population 20,000, historically a Gulag centre; plus the heritage of the Mansi people (a Finno-Ugric Vogul people, some 12,000 speakers of Mansi in the northern Urals), the region being 84% ethnic Russian Siberians, and the Ivdel Gulag's USVITL, a 1937-1953 forced-labour camp network tied to Norilsk and the NKVD, part of the roughly 15% of the USSR's population subjected to internment across camps such as Vorkutlag/Kolymlag).
The setting
Sverdlovsk, Ivdel/Severouralsk, northern middle Urals, Russia, listed elevation 0 m erroneous, true elevation ~200 m, Siberian-Ural taiga, continuous cluster batches 260-376, fishing/riverside shelter, talyy plyos "ice-free reach" river in winter, iconic, plus Ivdel Yenisei basin, Sverdlovsk 200,000 km² of the Urals, Ivdel population 20,000, historic Gulag centre, Mansi Finno-Ugric Vogul people ~12,000 speakers in the northern Urals, 84% ethnic Russian Siberians, Ivdel Gulag USVITL 1937-1953 forced labour, Norilsk, NKVD, 15% of the USSR population, Vorkutlag/Kolymlag.
