The project engages with the oldest road of Krasnoyarsk region — Eniseysky Tract — which emerged in the seventeenth century as a packanimal trail between Eniseysk and Krasnoyarsk. It was traveled by service people, settlers, exiles, and gold miners.

In Eniseysk, the Archpriest Avvakum lived in exile, his autograph from 1659 became one of the earliest written traces of a human presence in Siberia. Later, this route was described by Fridtjof Nansen, who called Siberia a “Country of the future.” The road connects epochs, from the first conquerors to twentieth-century engineers, transforming from a geographical line into a symbol of continuous movement. The project documents the tract in its present condition: a space where the past shows through everyday details, architecture, and landscape. For the author, it is not only part of the region’s history but also a personal topography: his grandfather and mother built and maintained the northern sections of the road, inscribing the family biography into the history of the region’s development.

The camera records not events but the very flow of time: life along the road, where traces of the past and everyday routine form a single field in which the tragic and the ordinary become visible.