The story of a village that burried with sand in Russia
News24xx.com - Shoyna is a small fishing village located on the Kanin Peninsula in Northern Russia. Situated on the edge of the arctic circle, the inhabitants of this coastal village has to endure not only the cold but the huge amount of sand that stretches for tens of kilometers all along the coast of the White Sea.
Sand is a daily sight for every villager. The residents that live in Shoyna village never close their doors because feel fear of being buried alive with sands. Residents decided to not to close their door at night, because by morning, it might not open.
Most of the residents is unemployed and pensioners.
Only one job in this village is bulldozer drivers because every house in this village needs to be excavated.
And it makes, the villagers of Shoyna are used of buried in sand.
Even so, some residents still need bulldozers to dig their homes after no longer windy. Not all residents can dig their home, with bulldozers because they have to pay quite expensive.
So some people dig their homes with shovels and other equipment.
The village was settled in the 1930s by fishing families because of the abundance of fish and sea life in the waters.
Today, just three hundred people live at Shoyna supported mainly by unemployment benefits and pensions. Some earn a living from hunting. There are large number of geese in the region.
More than half of the village is now buried under sand dunes deposited by the wind. It is thought that damage to permafrost and destruction of the sea bottom released the sand.
The village is connected by neither roads nor railroads. Transportation to the outside world is by ship or air. There is a civilian airport consisting of a 650-meter dirt runway.
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