[Most often I saw Valya Yaremenko. But what benefit of advice could one give her if Valya was the only worker in her family and had to share her food ration with the old mother-in-law and two kids?
Her mother-in-law told me the story I would have never believed in former times!
She, together with her husband and three kids were from the first dispossessed. They were brought to the upper course of the river Ket and started digging a channel between the rivers of Ket and Yenisei. But the time came when the results of exploring showed that the Yenisei was much higher than the Ket and there was a steep slope to the west from the Yenisei meaning a flood-gate system had to be built which was economically irrational. The works were halted and the workers simply forgotten. When the miserable realised it they were dashed with terror.]
They plodded over marshes and windbreak. First, they had to abandon their meagre belongings, then children began to die, then... There were few who managed to reach more habitable places where they caved in. Being the life-term exiles they had no right to go back to the homeland.