Polar Vyacheslav short - the loneliest person on the planet

Vyacheslav Short - professional polar explorer, expert meteorologist who works at the North Pole.

The last 30 years he travels to the Arctic ships and sometimes stays in Khodovarikha when a former village on the shores of the Barents Sea, and now has become semi-abandoned lighthouse. In the village of Vyacheslav regularly meteorological measurements.

Short have a wife, but she lives far away from his main job - Arkhangelsk. Vyacheslav 63 years old, have children with his wife there.

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 explorer and made some great pictures of his work and life.

"World cities alien to him, he did not accept. I thought that Vyacheslav escaped from the world for some reason can, on some issues or some tragedy. But this 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 a 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 century-old wooden building in the now abandoned village Khodovarikha. All weather data, 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 newspaper articles about his death in 1968.







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







In short radio transmits weather data to another weather station, where they are then sent to Moscow. Most reports of snow storms and gales delayed for these very reasons.







In his free time Vyacheslav does such houses of matches.







In his own hands made short boat sometimes likes to smoke a cigarette.







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









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







From the window of his wooden house Short watching desert landscape stretching for many kilometers.









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