This was reported by the press service of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. The famous Unsky timber mill was located on Cape Zayatsky. Special settlers expelled to the North in 1929-1931 from different regions of the Soviet Union worked here. The plant started its activities in 1931.
The timber was shipped by barge to Arkhangelsk and then abroad. Once upon a time there was a sawmill with two sawmills on three shifts, there were granaries, rooms for mechanical and sawmill workshops, a production pool and an elevator for supplying logs to the workshops.
The plant and its village existed until the early 1950s. Then it became empty. But parts of industrial facilities, residential buildings and even locomotives – English steam engines used in the sawmill to produce electricity – remained.
According to experts, the locomotives most likely arrived in Arkhangelsk on the eve of the First World War. Due to the outbreak of hostilities, they remained there. They were employed in a sawmill. The brickwork of the factory buildings may indicate that production in this area was established during the First World War. Wooden buildings were allegedly built in the Gulag.
During the current expedition, restorers will photograph unique objects and propose a plan for their preservation, and researchers will develop proposals for assigning the locomotives the status of cultural heritage objects of regional significance.
