#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The funny stories in the collection The House That Travels about a boy from the Russian Dolgan people were loved by both children and adults. The book was published in two languages – Dolgan and Russian, which made it also useful for teaching and preserving the rare language of the indigenous small people of the North – Dolgan.
“The book turned out to be so popular that it is no longer possible to buy it – it is available only in libraries”, said Olesya Polunina, ethnographer, head of the Moscow Arctic Library No. 77. “That’s why we got the news with great joy that the book will be published in large quantities with illustrations by polar artist Dmitry Gusev”.
The new edition will include all the stories about the boy’s adventures in the modern Arctic. The author, a young writer Sofya Belova, included in the collection previously unpublished stories Dumpling Emergency and Dog Driver.
“When Sophya was preparing her stories, she sought advice from polar explorers – participants in the Clean Arctic – Vostok-77 expedition. And she asked very interesting questions, the answers to which we had to find out, because we ourselves had never thought about such interesting things”, said the famous polar explorer Andrey Igolkin. “For example, how many dumplings can icebreaker crew members off duty make during the traditional Dumpling rush and how many of these dumplings can the icebreaker crew, along with scientists and passengers, eat a day?”
The author found out that the team can make up to ten thousand dumplings in one rush, and the icebreaker crew eats up to a thousand dumplings per one lunch.
The boy’s adventures in the tundra, on the ocean shore and on the Rosatomflot icebreaker board attracted the interest of a large publishing house, so the book’s release and appearance on the shelves of Yakutia and Taimyr is planned for the summer of 2024.
Earlier, This Is Taimyr reported that the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore published the Museum Bulletin magazine, and we also reported that Yamal textbooks would become a model for all Arctic territories of Russia.
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Text: Ekaterina Maksimova, Photo: Sofya Belova’s personal archive
