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Human life is a long, full of energy leap. At one point, it can lead to complete surprise or raise above the Chomolungma. The traveler knows that only total immersion can reveal a real curtain. Crossing 1,000 kilometers of the Siberian taiga is, in general, a groundless task. Why, you ask. What can be seen in the forest, where there are only bare tree trunks, a gloomy sky and rare villages with barely noticeable signs ... no, not civilization, but life itself. And it is great that I once went there, in this baseless jump into the unknown. Being a bad traveler, I prepared well. The standard set of survivor, matches in wax and hidden in the hair, additional knife, pair of signal lights, four (!) walkie-talkies ... left at home. No, seriously, who needs items where no one has seen them? After all, for this I live in Siberia so as not to be like the others. The start was given on November 5, 2017. My Japanese friend Sayaka and I went on a journey without even charging phones from one cold town to another, warmer. Its warmth was felt for a thousand kilometers and I only now understand that any of us lacks such actions, such energy. Sayaka smiled at first, then cried. Why are you doing this, my friend? Maybe that strange smiling man in a Russian pickup scared you with his icicles on his beard, or maybe that child in the village of Yegorovka, who had a frozen fish tail in his hands, which was quite a toy and a meal for him. Although it personally amused me, because not every day we play with such things that you can eat later. And yes, in one hotel we heard - and it is true - Hindu songs from the rusty throat of a centenary woman. It was easy to identify by the smell of type tobacco oozing from crevices in the floor. In general, a thousand kilometers, or, as the inhabitants of Siberia say, a thousand verst, is a short distance. But, expecting to see gloomy faces and wolves here, you see completely different pictures. It is a pity that there are few people in the world who will see this.