RUS. Russia. Siberia. yenisei River 2019.

Hunter in a small settlement north of Jenisseisk.

The hunter Fjodr Stepanovitsch explains: „In Soviet Union life was easier. Now our village nearly consists of pensioners. Back then there was infrastructure, helicopters would fly regularly and every hunter would be supplied with hunting grounds, food and a guarantee
of finding selling the fur for a fair price. Today hunting for fur is restricted with every year more and fishing is forbidden. But both are the life resource for us.“ Stepanovitsch further explains, how all the Taiga around the Yenisei has been sold out to the Chinese. Trucks carrying tons of trees of the forest come closer to the settlements everyday. The today private run hydro stations drain water from the dam without predicting. When it’s -40 degrees the thick ice with a
lot of pressure literally crushes the fish to death and brings them, the hunters, into danger when they are passing the kilometer broad river to their hunting lands.