From Yakutsk to Russkoe Ustye "Meeting of the townspeople of the Verkhoyansk bourgeois society" March 11

Album with photos by V.Zenzinov

These congresses are a great public event. They are traded, exchanged news, looking for brides, wooing. Among the "posts" a lot of women. After all, everyone lives here in small groups - in 1-3-7 houses, no more, and suddenly over a hundred souls gather here. What a stir! On the "street" now and then there are visitors in bright motley, crimson and green scarves around the neck and belt. Around the huts, stars are attached to sledges with dogs, and inside there is a Babylonian crowd. In each hut - a lot of people, all sleeping along, and in the daytime, it seems, there is no place to step into them. The owners go worried and hungry - after all, you need to feed everyone, drink tea and feed the dogs. As is customary, all this lies with their duties — not for nothing, all these efforts and fuss during congresses are called "battle" here.