"The Abandoned Desert Island" is a short story based on the novel by Ivanov Alexey. The distinctive feature of this novel is the first-person writing technique, which gives people a real and cordial feeling.
The story tells of a Muscovite resident in the metropolis who was disturbed and extremely troubled by worldly worries and the hustle and bustle of the city. After being introduced by a friend, I flew to a remote village in central Russia to go fishing. Driving a gasoline boat that was placed here in advance, we went up the river and met the local ranger, his granddaughter, Hareton and others along the way. While chatting with them, I learned that as early as the 1950s and 1960s, the former Soviet Union built a large-scale labor camp in this area (it is said that at its peak, the number of people in the labor camp once reached more than 200,000). At that time, in order to search for uranium and cobalt minerals in this area, barbaric methods including explosives were used for predatory development, which caused serious losses to local land and vegetation. What is even more outrageous is that at that time, a large number of labor reformers were used, and the rich local forest resources were used to cut down a large number of forests along the river. The wood was transported to the seaport through drifting operations, and then the wood was salvaged and bartered with merchants from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and other countries. As a result, a large amount of wood sank to the bottom of the river, the river was polluted, the soil and water were not protected, the environment deteriorated, and a large number of fish and other creatures in the water died, triggering a devastating ecological disaster in the local area.
