Voluntary loneliness

In Short has a wife, but she lives far away from his main place of work - in Arkhangelsk. Vyacheslav 63 years old, the children he and his wife do not have.
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 would not accept it. 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.
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





Short lives in a wooden house in the now century-old abandoned village Khodovarikha. All weather information, he enters into a special magazine



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



Short, standing knee-deep in water, measures the level of the Barents Sea



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



In his free time Vyacheslav makes such houses of matches



Khodovarikha, January 25, 2014. Short takes readings from meteobudki located five minutes from his home. Over his head - the northern lights



From the window of his wooden house Short watching desert scenery, which spreads for miles



View of the Barents Sea from the window, "Mikhail Somov" diesel-electric, which delivers food to Vyacheslav and tools once a year.