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00:0027th of May, 1986, Baikal-Olenskiy Nature Reserve.
00:18Listen to the story I was told on my way to the nature reserve.
00:24In the 17th century, the Tsar of Moscow hired a group of Cossacks to explore the Siberian lands.
00:32There, in the taiga, they met the locals.
00:37They were the Evenks.
00:40For some reason, we call them the Tungus.
00:45The Cossacks asked the Evenks who was the owner of this land.
00:52No one, the Evenks replied.
00:56This land does not have an owner.
01:00It belongs to everyone who inhabits it.
01:04People, animals, plants and spirits.
01:10The Russian Cossacks did not understand anything.
01:15They thought, if the land does not belong to anyone, then it will belong to the Tsar.
01:45The End