Song from the movie “Sanikov Land.”

The history of searching for lasting answers for hundreds of years is a unique discovery, often beginning with eyewitness stories, forcing industrialists and researchers to organize expeditions exploring new unknown lands. Researchers are looking for new land for their country and for their reputation. Bearing Strait, Rangel Island – Discoveries remain forever in the history of humanity.

The industrialists needed new lands to get valuable animal skins, a new place to extract valuable walrus teeth, and a huge bonus. In 164646, the Cossack expedition led by MV Stadukhin learned that in the north of the continent, opposite the mouths of the Indigirka and Kolimar rivers, there were newly enriched lands where “local residents run dogs over the sea in winter,” which they and the governor of Yakut reported.

According to their story, an expedition was organized which discovered New Siberia – now New Siberian Islands. It wasn’t easy to reach the islands. Still, it was very convenient for the industrialists to mine on these islands.

Land explorers have always asked themselves: Is there any land that has not been discovered yet? People on Novosibirsk Island have noticed that migratory birds fly north through the islands in the summer – meaning there must be a place somewhere, as the birds fly to build nests and hatch.

Hunter, merchant, and explorer Yakov Sanikov hunted on the Novosibirsk Islands. During his preaching in 1800, he discovered the island of Stalbovoy, and in 1805 – the island of Fadevsky. The map contains Sanikov Street in his memory.

Once, in 1810, he stood on the northern edge of the northernmost island in the Novosibirsk Archipelago, looking at the land near the horizon. He could see the mountains and the plains to their left with a telescope. Sanikov tried to reach this land by sliding the dog but could not find new land.

In 1824, the famous Polar Explorer, fleet Lieutenant P.F. Anju (a part of the Novosibirsk archipelago Anju archipelago was named after him in the Arctic Ocean), they also tried to reach the mysterious place using a team – and did not find it.

Even interested in a strange land in St. Petersburg. The Russian emperor himself spoke of this land in an issue of Alexander III Marine Corps:

Whoever opens this invisible land will be his. Go for it, Midshipman!

However, all attempts to reach the island failed. It would be nice if researchers could come back alive. Many expeditions simply disappeared. Died in the ice.

During the Novosibirsk Islands in 1886, Polar Explorer Baron E.V. Toll saw with his own eyes that mysterious land – it seemed so close! The Spyglass was clearly visible – four high mountains with flat peaks (Table Mountains) and low-lying lands to their east. What he saw in a note dated 13 August 1886 was recorded in his diary. This has shocked the Baron, who has decided at any cost to find this land.

His belief in the existence of this land was not shaken even by the fact that in the same year, Friedtzhof Nansen, in the Arctic Ocean ice, had not found any land on the Frame ship north of the Novosibirsk archipelago – he had not even seen the traces of it.

Baron Tol’s next life was dedicated to the mysterious land of Sanikov. Together they embarked on an arctic expedition in search of the Zaria ship. The operation failed, many of its members died, and the toll itself died. The new island could not be found.

Finally, in 19337, a time was set for the search for Sanikov Land. Icebreaker “Sadco” was held in places where it was supposed to be possible. A sea bar (arrow) was found, known as “Sanikov Bank.” Scientists have suggested that sometimes, driven by ordinary icemen, icebergs hit the shore and remain there until they are separated by water and wind pressure. These are the icebergs that Tol and Sanikov probably saw.

But where did the birds fly north of the Novosibirsk Islands in the early nineteenth century? There is a version that the earth was – permafrost, inside the ice and outside the earth, but thao and storms made a hole in it – and the permafrost melted the ice and turned the eastern island into a sandbank.

In 1926, academician V. A. Obruchev, a geologist, paleontologist, and a great science fiction writer, wrote the book Sanikov Land. He speculated about the origin of the land and the possible causes of the island’s disappearance. In this book, he acted as science fiction rather than a scientist. Thus began the second life of Sanikov Land. The island was formerly known only to northern explorers. It gained an all-union reputation. A huge army of boys and girls learned about it, read a great book, and ignited ideas of exploring remote areas. In 1973, the film “Sanicov Land” was released. Great screenplay, good director and composer, great actor – the film was a huge success. And again, these would mean that you have to spend on these processes.

And migratory birds have long stopped flying north of the Novosibirsk Islands, where they no longer have a safe and uninhabited place to nest and breed.

There was probably once – an island that people never found, who disappeared for unknown reasons.