Foggy Nikolskoye

The weather conditions in the form of fog and frost created just another planet from this place. The silence was so intense that it seemed as if thoughts had a sound!

Nikolskoye is a village in the Ust-Kubinsky district of the Vologda region. It is the administrative center of a rural settlement. Vologda is 110 km away.

I came here for the dugouts and the atmosphere of the ancient village, but I didn't take many shots because of the heavy fog.

It was shining aurora in the sky that night, but the fog covered everything.

I will remember this trip because I had a very bad headache...perhaps due to a magnetic storm or a drop in atmospheric pressure.

It's the quietest place I've ever been in.

I mean the settlements where more than a hundred people live.

Why do they say that silence is oppressive?

We are used to hearing the constant micro-sounds of our vital activity.

And when there are no sounds at all, it creates a feeling of deafness.

I didn't want to walk around Nikolskoye at all, because any rustle would break this silence.

At such moments, you want the wind to blow or a car to pass...at least something would create some sounds...