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Slide 0: a_cover0.jpg 100 Year Since Tunguska Phenomenon, 2008
Slide 1: a_cover1.jpg Siberian taiga
Slide 2: P6250001.jpg Root cellars in Akadem Gorodok
Slide 3: P6250002.jpg Yenesei river viewed from Akadem Gorodok
Slide 4: P6250003.jpg Bruce Masse and Jonathan Hagstrum enjoying the view of the Yenesei River
Slide 5: P6250004.jpg Local Russian couple enjoying the Yenesei river at 10 p.m. at night
Slide 6: P6260005.jpg Ted Bryant pointing to model of Tunguska bolide on geological map of eastern Russia
Slide 7: P6290007.jpg Discovery Team filming the folk festival that met us at Vanavaara
Slide 8: P6300008.jpg Slava Gusiakov at the door of Kuliks banya (Siberian sauna) on the banks of the Tunguska river
Slide 9: P6300009.jpg Exploring the area around Kuliks camp along the river.
Slide 10: P6300010.jpg Visiting Russian dignitaries at Zaimka Kulik, Kuliks main camp at the epicenter of the Tunguska impact. The monument in back of them is meant to represent the Tunguska bolide. Fourth from left in back row: Head of Energy company. Fifth from left and second from right in back row: former cosmonauts
Slide 11: P6300012.jpg Helicopter landing at the helicopter platform at Zaimka Kulik.
Slide 12: P6300013.jpg Dee Breger (left) and Ted Bryant (right) standing next to an overturned stump from the Tunguska event. The tree was logged, only the stump remains.
Slide 13: P6300015.jpg Young trees on a mountain near Zaimka Kulik. Rock scree is basalt
Slide 14: P7010017.jpg Visiting Russians in front of one of the original cabins at Zaimka Kulik. Note on top left that the logs are dark because they are charred. The charring is characteristic of logs at the epicenter of the impact. Many are burned on two sides. The only pristine logs that remain are in the cabins built by Kulik. Logs that remained on the group have decayed.
Slide 15: P7010018.jpg Ted Bryant (left) and Jon Hagstrum (right) sitting in the kitchen area of the camp at Zaimka Kulik. The clothes line in the back is for drying out wet clothes that were soaked by the intermittent rain. The wood in the background came from the remains of Kuliks blacksmith shop.
Slide 16: P7010019.jpg Dee Breger shrouded in mosquito nets in the kitchen area at Zaimka Kulik. Olga the cook is behind her to the left.
Slide 17: P7030023.jpg Members of the Holocene Impact Working Group plus Jon Hagstrum in front of the new monument at Zaimka Kulik. Front: Alexei Kiselov. Back Row (from left): Bruce Masse, Slava Gusiakov, Ted Bryant, Dallas Abbott, Jon Hagstrum , Dee Breger.
Slide 18: P7030027.jpg Members of the Holocene Impact Working Group plus friends in front of one of the original Kulik cabins at Zaimka Kulik. From left to right: Slava Gusiakov, ranger, Dallas Abbott, Jon Hagstrum, Ted Bryant, Alexei Kiselev, Dee Breger (in front with dog), two unknown Russians, Bruce Masse.
Slide 19: P7030030.jpg Helicopter arriving to pick us up on the last day at Tunguska,
Slide 20: P7030032.jpg Preparing to board the helicopter on the last day at Tunguska.
Slide 21: P7030033.jpg Russians at the helicopter platform have come to wave goodbye.
Slide 22: P7030035.jpg Seated in the helicopter as we leave. From left: Slava Gusiakov, Bruce Masse, Jon Hagstrum.
Slide 23: P7030037.jpg Boardwalk through the swamp leading from the camp to the helicopter platform.
Slide 24: P7030038.jpg Same as 25.
Slide 25: P7030041.jpg Siberian taiga and swamps. Most swamps are thermokarst.
Slide 26: P7030043.jpg Siberian taiga from window of helicopter.
Slide 27: P7030045.jpg Alexei photographing from window of helicopter.
Slide 28: P7030048.jpg Alexei Kiselov at window of helicopter after 4 days in Tunguska.
Slide 29: P7030049.jpg Alexei Kiselov in front of airline terminal undergoing renovation in the trading post of Vanavaara. The building is a classic Siberian wooden building with carving on the eaves and windows with a radial design.
Slide 30: P7030051.jpg Traditional Evenki Dress at the museum in Vanavaara.
Slide 31: P7030052a.jpg Special Evenki Beaded Amulet honoring the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska event. It says Tunguska: 1908-2008.
Slide 32: P7030052b.jpg Traditional Evenki decoration constructed out of fur.
Slide 33: P7030054.jpg Model of Zaimka Kulik at the time of Kulik.
Slide 34: P7030055.jpg Pictures of the Tunguska Bolide.
Slide 35: P7040057.jpg Tee pee and totem pole in front of the museum at Vanavaara. These are traditional.
Slide 36: P7050059.jpg Luna, one of our hosts in Krasnoyarsk. The Yenesei river is in the background.
Slide 37: P7050061.jpg Ted Bryant in front of monument to sturgeon along the Yenesei river in Krasnoyarsk.
Slide 38: P7050062.jpg Local yacht on the Yenesei river. We all sailed on this yacht.
Slide 39: P7050063.jpg Slava Gusiakov (left) and Konstantin Simonov (right) on the yacht.
Slide 40: P7050064.jpg Our family of hosts in Krasnoyarsk. Allia (left) and Feodor (right).
Slide 41: P7050066.jpg Jon Hagstrum on the yacht.
Slide 42: P7060068.jpg Stalbe- Standing granite dome in National Park near Krasnoyarsk.
Slide 43: P7060070.jpg Konstantin and Slava on top of one of the granite domes.
Slide 44: P7060071.jpg At Allia and Feodors dacha. Their banya is behind. From left: Allia, Mengyin (?), Feodor, Bruce, Konstantin.
Slide 45: P7060074.jpg In front of the trans-Siberian railway station at Krasnoyarsk. From left: Dee Breger, Slava Gusiakov, Ted Bryant, Dallas Abbott.