Shoyna village, Russia. A woman with a child looking out the window in a wooden house.
Shoyna village, Russia. An overview of the village with sand dunes from a lighthouse.
Shoyna village, Russia. A man with his dog stands on the threshold of his house.
Shoyna village, Russia. A man drives through the sand dunes on a homemade vehicle. A dog follows him.
Shoyna village, Russia. A man chops wood in front of a house with a satellite dish.
Shoyna village, Russia. A boy and a girl stand next to an abandoned boat on the seashore.
Shoyna village, Russia. A boy and a girl sit on a homemade vehicle of their father.
A man rolls a self-made baby carriage with a child through the sand
Shoyna village, Russia. A boy jumps between the oil tanks.
Shoyna village, Russia. A boy jumps down from an oil tank.
Shoyna village, Russia. A dog stands in front of a shipwreck.
Shoyna village, Russia. A girl stands crying in front of a clothesline.
Shoyna village, Russia. Young people waiting for the arrival of a plane.
Shoyna village, Russia. People meet passengers on a plane that has just landed.
Shoyna village, Russia. People take leave of their relatives who board the plane.
Shoyna village, Russia. Passengers are sitting in a plane.
A dog and a bicycle stand in front of a house
Shoyna village, Russia. A woman is standing on the threshold of her house.
Shoyna village, Russia. A disabled man lies in his bed with a remote control in his hand.
Shoyna village, Russia. A woman talks to his son.
Shoyna village, Russia. A woman is talking to her daughter.
Shoyna village, Russia. A girl walks through her house.
Shoyna village, Russia. Two women work in the village bakery. They bake bread.
Shoyna village, Russia. A woman and her daughter drink tea.
Shoyna village, Russia. A baker washes a machine for the dough.
Shoyna village, Russia. A girl sits in front of a dead bird with her cat, which has killed the bird.
Shoyna village, Russia. A doll lies in a bakery next to the breads.
Shoyna village, Russia. A girl walks through the sand.
Shoyna village, Russia. The airport in the village just before the rainstorm.
A soldier and a stoker stand in front of a house
Shoyna village, Russia. A man with his dog sits on a ship wreck on the coast.
Shoyna village, Russia. Ship wraks stand on the coast.
Shoyna village, Russia. Two boys fishing from the ship wraks.
Shoyna village, Russia. A boy stands in front of a destroyed house.
Shoyna village, Russia. A boy fetches water with two buckets of water.
Shoyna village, Russia. A skull with an artificial denture lies in the sand on a cemetery.
Shoyna village, Russia. Portrait of a deceased man lying in the sand of a cemetery.
Shoyna village, Russia. An old woman rubs her eyes after a violent sandstorm.
Shoyna village, Russia. An old woman is standing in her house.
Shoyna village, Russia. Two boys play with two bottles in the sand.
Shoyna village, Russia. A boy in a red vest stands in the middle of the village.
Shoyna village, Russia. A boy and his father talk next to two buckets of cloudberries.
Shoyna village, Russia. People talk to each other in a village shop.
Shoyna village, Russia. A woman watering her plants and cucumbers.
Shoyna village, Russia. A woman watering her plants and cucumbers.
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Shoyna village, Russia. A meteorologist blows up a probe.
Shoyna village, Russia. A man sits in front of a wooden house.
Shoyna village, Russia. A man eats and phones at his workplace at a diesel station.
Shoyna village, Russia. A lighthouse keeper lights a kerosene lamp in his lighthouse.
Shoyna village, Russia. A cook in the boarding school serves the food in the plates.
A boy in boarding school drinks tea
Shoyna village, Russia. A boy and a girl in boarding school drink tea.
Shoyna village, Russia. A man plays on a football field with a net swimmer.
Shoyna village, Russia. A man and a woman can be seen through a window.
Shoyna village, Russia. A ship brings food to the village.
Shoyna village, Russia. A young man walks on the coast.
Shoyna village, Russia. An old woman in a headscarf walks through the village.
Shoyna village, Russia. A woman in a headscarf hangs laundry on next to her house in front of the lighthouse.
Shoyna village, Russia. A cat is sitting in the window.
Shoyna village, Russia. A man walks on a roof of a house in front of the lighthouse at sunset.
Shoyna village, Russia. A boy brings his father food to his workplace. The boy is reflected in a mirror.
Shoyna village, Russia. A motorbike drives along the coast past the shipwrecks.
Shoyna village, Russia. A boy is standing in front of a window.
A dog stands next to a reindeer skull and a barrel in front of a lighthouse

Shoyna is a village in the north of Russia. In 1935 a huge factory for preserved fish was built. Yet in 1941 it was destroyed by a storm. Ten years later the Barents Sea was completely overfished by the fishing fleets of Shoina, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk. Concerning Shoina additionally the vegetation cover of the seabed was destroyed by the trawls. Since that the waves have been loosening ten thousands of tons of sand from the seabed, which they washed to the land where the wind carries the grains of sand over the tundra and over the houses and streets of Shoina. All that’s left of the former model village are the industrial scrap and some houses, which are sinking into the sand. Ever since the remaining 300 inhabitants are on the drip of the outside world.