Refuge

Зимовье - Дом рыбака

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The place

Зимовье - Дом рыбака ("Winter shelter - Fisherman's House") in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Tura/Baikit area (Podkamennaya Tunguska basin, central Siberia, Russia), at a true altitude of ~150 m (the listed 0 m is erroneous), Siberian taiga. Continuous Russia central Siberia cluster (batches 260-369). Traditional zimovje for fishermen/trappers (Podkamennaya Tunguska River, 1,865 km, a tributary of the Yenisei + Tunguska event, 30 June 1908, an impact of ~30 megatons flattening 2,000 km² of forest, meteorite/comet airburst at ~5-10 km altitude with no crater + Evenki-Podkamennaya autonomous okrug, 767,000 km², among the lowest population densities on Earth at 4 inhabitants per 1,000 km² + heritage of the Evenks (Tungusic people, 40,000 speakers of Evenki, reindeer herders, shamanistic mainland culture + pre-Soviet Kolyma Tungus reindeer herders, forced collectivization in 1930, 60% of the population wiped out by famine + recognition as one of Russia's Malochislennye korennye narody, 46 small-numbered indigenous peoples under 50,000, under the 2000 law on language and culture preservation).

The setting

Krasnoyarsk, Tura/Baikit, Podkamennaya Tunguska basin, central Siberia, Russia, altitude listed as 0 m erroneously, ~150 m actual, Siberian taiga, continuous cluster batches 260-369, zimovje for fishermen/trappers, Podkamennaya Tunguska River, 1,865 km, Yenisei + Tunguska event, 30 June 1908, ~30 Mt, 2,000 km² of forest, meteorite/comet airburst at ~5-10 km, no crater + Evenki-Podkamennaya AO, 767,000 km², 4 inhabitants/1,000 km², among the lowest on Earth, Evenks, Tungusic, 40,000 speakers of Evenki, reindeer herders, shamanism + pre-Soviet Kolyma, 1930 collectivization, 60% wiped out by famine + Malochislennye korennye narody, 46 small-numbered indigenous peoples under 50,000, RU law 2000.