Vitim. Yakutia by Lena begins just above the mouth of the big right tributary of the Vitim. So big that even more unclear who, whether Vitim, or Lena. Opposite the mouth, on the left bank is quite large settlement with the status of urban type, which is also called the Vitim. So this is the first village on the river, located in the Yakutia, Irkutsk region boundary is just three kilometers above. The village is quite old, with its history, a year of education is considered to be 1621-th. Not once heard that the river Vitim is a prototype Gloom-river from the novel Shishkov, and, of course, on the spot, this version is even supported. In fact this is not true, it’s Registry. Gloom-prototype is the Lower Tunguska River, it is a fact in the novel a lot of changed names several settlements, actually existing on the river, and in the village Erbogachen (in the novel Erbohomohlya) is a museum of the writer. Incidentally, the Lower Tunguska in 1997, I went all alone – 2,625 kilometers by canoe. Well, okay, we’re on the Vitim. However, in the Vitim also went into the upper reaches of Romanovka to the bridge at BAM. There’s a real mountain river Vitim, as expected, with rapids. In the village we stopped just for an hour. Rather, I just went, Andrew stayed on shore to guard the property. It was only necessary to buy some food at the same time and quickly run through the village, a little poschёlkat quickly. I invite you to take a walk and.
Beach near the village of Vitim.
Pier for passenger ships.
Descent to the pier.
There’s even a bit of asphalt.
Costs of civilization and now here.
The village stands on a high bank, hence the wonderful view of the river, it’s a pity the weather brought.
Go through the streets of the Vitim.
Drinking water is carried about from house to house and poured into barrels. It is common practice for water supply of settlements in the permafrost zone.
Russian specialists carved art there’s probably a lot of interesting things can be found.
But the village is built and developed, look and become a city.
Honestly, I did not have time to figure out what is here, this has almost unfinished at the time a large building strange color.
Local restaurants, like acting. I did not go.
And here is a little delayed, it is very interesting structure. Here and local resident walked proudly began to tell that this famous restaurant has the nineteenth century. In the old days in the institution settled with the bearing of miners mines, there are also left here all zolotishko, so painstakingly reclaimed for the season, and then linger until the next season, and so from year to year …
Peleduy. Just 25 kilometers below the village of Vitim, also on the left bank of the Lena, worth another fairly large village with the status of urban type – Peleduy. The name he received from his eponymous river, at its mouth, and built. Peleduy founded in 1933 as one of the bases of the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route. Directly related to the birth of the city, as well as to the establishment here Sudoremnotno-shipyard has a famous Soviet polar explorer Ivan Papanin. Following somehow Lena in one of his expeditions, he noted that there is growing great vessels forest. At first, there was the first shipyard, make timber propelled barges, then transformed into Maintenance fleet base and then Peleduysky ship repair and shipyard. Existed here and Arctic College. At this point in the village is home to about 5,000 people.
On entering the village you will be greeted monument Papanin. Personality is certainly legendary. Papanin born in Sevastopol and the first part of his life is very closely linked to the Crimea and Ukraine.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Папанин,_Иван_Дмитриевич
Horses also know who the Papanin.
Lena is not only a river, but the traffic artery.
The shipping office.
Here, as in the Vitim something where you can find elements of a rustic carved creation.
Though urban village, but mostly just a village.
Just below the village at the mouth and is Peleduya shipyard.
In itself Peleduy literally ran for half an hour, and then another went ashore below the mouth Peleduya, where we saw the old village huts. There are already uninhabited village.
The fields are overgrown with weeds and no longer cultivated.
And even on a rock just below the statue placed, symbolizing Mother Yakutia. The author of the sculpture is Whistlers, amateur sculptor and painter who worked in industrial training GPTU-6, Educational riverine. Students perform work on the construction of the monument for free.
To be continued …
Source: blog of Sergei Karpukhina
Translation: Google
