Shoyna is a small fishing village located on the Kanin Peninsula in Northern Russia.
Residents take precaution not to exit the door at night, because by morning, it might not open.
The village has a bulldozer that is frequently in action, digging out homes.
By the 1950s, it grew to a pretty large settlement with 1,500 residents.
Together they owned more than seventy vessels.
But reckless trawling over the decades decimated the fish population and eventually the fishery collapsed.
Today, just three hundred people live at Shoyna supported mainly by unemployment benefits and pensions.
Some earn a living from hunting.
There are large number of geese in the region.
More than half of the village is now buried under sand dunes deposited by the wind.
It is thought that damage to permafrost and destruction of the sea bottom released the sand.
The village is connected by neither roads nor railroads.
Transportation to the outside world is by ship or air.
There is a civilian airport consisting of a 650-meter dirt runway.
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Sources:Wikipedia/Russia Beyond The Headlines
