Larisa Sheifer, a resident of Beryozovka village in the Tomsk Region, in her backyard. Estonians have been living here since the early 20th century. Many of their parents were accused of being kulaks [rich peasants] and purged, subsequently leaving their homeland and sailing to Siberia on rafts along the Chulym River. Their descendants have been preserving Estonian cultural traditions all these years.
- Package: "Little Estonia" in Russia's Siberia
- Categories: Lifestyle & Leisure
- Location: Tomsk Region, Russia
- Event date: 25.03.2009
- Date published: 30.03.2009
- Author: Valery Titievsky
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 2266x2298px, 879Kb