Photos: Sergei Karpukhin

IN THE DEPTHS OF SIBERIA, TWO MIGHTY RIVERS RUSH TOWARDS THE ARCTIC OCEAN: THE LENA AND THE YENISEI. THE VAST EXPANSE OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN PLATEAU LIES BETWEEN THEM. MANY AMAZING PLACES CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIMORDIAL LANDSCAPE, BUT AMONG THEM, ONE STANDS OUT AS TRULY UNIQUE: THE MOUNTAINS OF PUTORANA, OR, AS THEY ARE ALSO CALLED, THE PUTORANA PLATEAU.

 

Early September is a very interesting time in the Putoranas. While in the summer the midnight sun circles the sky day and night, by September the darkness is returning little by little, meaning the Northern Lights are visible. But the sun only dips below the horizon, and, leaving red streaks in the sky, does not allow itself to be forgotten.

 

The Bolshoy Kureysky Waterfall is the largest in Russia in terms of flow rate.
Sunrises and sunsets — dubbed “operating time” by photographers — are not to be missed
Lake Yt-Kyuel. Translated from the Dolgan language it means something like Dog’s Lake, and as such is often called that. It is still in the Putorana Reserve’s buffer zone, but at the far end is a ranger’s hut, and beyond that lies the reserve.
The Putorana Plateau is a land of waterfalls. It would be almost impossible to calculate how many, but you’ll come across them on practically every stream.
Dog’s Lake (Ozero Sobach’e). The shorelines of the lakes in the Putorana range are not so simple for a photographer. Or rather, their foregrounds are of little interest — but you’ll often find rocky promontories from which an incredible birds-eye view opens up.

 

 

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