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Russian Geological Society expedition member Anatoly Kayukov has constructed a makeshift bridge using a dead tree over the roaring Yagtali River of Siberia's Putorana Plateau, and slowly creeps his way to the other side. Kayukov was part of the Russian Geological Society's expedition that returned to study the remote Russi an region 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle called Putorana Plateau--a magn ificent, uninhabited tableland the size of Nevada, cut by canyons, rivers, wate rfalls and endless flat-topped mountains receding to the Arctic horizon.

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Remote Russia: Expedition to Putorana Plateau Siberia_National Geographic magazine 11/2000
Russian Geological Society expedition member Anatoly Kayukov has constructed a makeshift bridge using a dead tree over the roaring Yagtali River of Siberia's Putorana Plateau, and slowly creeps his way to the other side. Kayukov was part of the Russian Geological Society's expedition that returned to study the remote Russi an region 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle called Putorana Plateau--a magn ificent, uninhabited tableland the size of Nevada, cut by canyons, rivers, wate rfalls and endless flat-topped mountains receding to the Arctic horizon.