Short summers and long winter winters make it almost impossible to accommodate people there, which is why Taiga in Siberia is one of the largest uninhabited areas of the world.
The area of 8.1 million square kilometers covers as much as 10 percent of the Earth's land surface, and its inhabitants are mostly bears and foxes during the day, while wolves are woken at night.
The average temperature is minus 5 Celsius, and the record temperature is 67.7 below zero.
You've probably heard stories about Japanese soldiers who occasionally knew how to come out of the jungle unaware that the war had ended, but this is even more amazing story - about families and who did not even know that World War II came.
The incredible fate of ignorance was held by a Russian family who spent more than 40 years in the abyss of the Siberian Taiga, and in 1987 they encountered geologists researchers.
They found out that the Lykov family lived in complete isolation for decades. They belonged to the "Old Ritualists", a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church which separated from the queen in the middle of the 17th century due to the condemnation of the reform.
Before 1936 the family lived in the settled part of Russia, but after one of the brothers was killed by the Soviet patrol, Father Lykov gathered his family and fled to the depths of the Siberian Taiga, and after that day they were never seen again.
For more than 40 years Karp Lykov lived in a wooden hut he built with his wife and children, just a few kilometers away from the border with Mongolia. When they decided to go into a secret, there were four of them - Karp and Akulina's wife, son of Savin and daughter Natalia.
Two more children were born in the wild, Dmitry 1940 and Agafia 1943. They had books for prayer and the old Bible, from which children learned to read and write.
They ate berries, grown their own vegetables and wore clothes from the fabric they made.
They learned how to hunt without guns, but without an arrow.
When Dmitry grew up, he became a real hunting expert, so good he was hunting for a boson after winter. In the late 1950s, due to the extremely difficult winter, the family was famished, and Akulina suffered and died, leaving her husband alone with children.
When geologists found them in 1978, they could not believe that someone survived in those conditions, which literally looked like those of the Middle Ages.
Despite the years of isolation, Karp welcomed them kindly, and he refused everything offered by geologists, except for salt - they did not taste for more than 40 years. Scientists informed and informed them - they had no idea that the Second World War broke out, that people landed on the Moon, and baptized the "modern wonders" that geologists had with them.
Karp was particularly fascinated, staring at the transparency of the film brought by the researchers.
"Lord, what is it, the glass is, but the crowd is," he wondered.
In the autumn of 1981, three out of four children - Dmitry, Natalia and Savin, died in a few days apart from one another, demonstrating a great connection.
The two suffered a kidney failure, while Savin died of pneumonia.
Geologists came in on a few occasions, and they urged Karpa and his daughter Agaif to move in with relatives who lived about 240 kilometers away, but they refused. Karp died in February 1988, and the only surviving daughter of Agaifa was left alone in a wooden hut, forced to crawl in the wild
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