Vyacheslav Short – absolutely lonely man, though by his own will. He is a professional polar explorer, expert meteorologist who works at the North Pole.
The last thirty years, he traveled to the Arctic ships and sometimes stayed in Khodovarikha, once the former village on the coast of the Barents Sea, and now has become semi-abandoned lighthouse. In the village of Vyacheslav regularly conducted meteorological measurements.
In Short has a wife, but she lives far away from his main place of work – in Arkhangelsk. Vyacheslav 63 years, children have with my wife does not.
Photographer Eugene Arbugaeva, who grew up in the town of Tiksi, on the instructions of The New Yorker has been a guest at the polar and made some great pictures of his work and life.
« World Cities alien to him, he does not crush. I thought that Vyacheslav escaped from the world for some reason can, on some issues or some tragedy. But it is not so. He never lonely here in the tundra. He is always with the wind, along with the weather, which is studying, « – says Eugene.
photographer Eugene Arbugaevoy specifically for The New Yorker
Vyacheslav Short inspects the full moon abandoned lighthouse on the site of the village Khodovarikha. Once this lighthouse helped sailors walking along the Northern Sea Route
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Short lives in a wooden house in the now century-old abandoned village Khodovarikha. All weather information, he enters into a special magazine
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Meteorological journal, Cloud Atlas, and other useful and important for the books scattered on the table Vyacheslav. Photo Yuri Gagarin cut from a newspaper article about his death in 1968
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Short, standing knee-deep in water, measures the level of the Barents Sea
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Short on radio transmits weather data to another weather station, where they are then sent to Moscow. Frequently reported snow storms or storm winds delayed for these reasons
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In his free time Vyacheslav makes such houses of matches
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In his own hands made short boat sometimes likes to smoke a cigarette
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Khodovarikha, January 25, 2014. Short takes readings from meteobudki located five minutes from his home. Over his head – the northern lights
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From the window of his wooden house Short watching desert scenery, which spreads for miles
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View of the Barents Sea from the window, "Mikhail Somov" diesel-electric, which delivers food to Vyacheslav and tools once a year.
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