A traveler from St. Petersburg Evgeny Kutuzov visited the Lagansky and Chernozemelsky regions.
A smiling young man is heading from Tver to India – along the route of the famous Russian traveler and navigator Afanasy Nikitin, the author of the famous “Voyage across the Three Seas”, remember? ..
But Kutuzov does not just walk, he helps seriously ill Russian children, raising funds for their treatment and rehabilitation.
The mission is more than noble and very difficult: well, walk at least a kilometer of forty-degree heat across the Kalmyk steppe, where you cannot find a reservoir, a house and even a growing tree within 50-60 kilometers – it is practically a desert.
Yevgeny left home a year ago, but in winter he seriously injured his leg, so he spent the whole winter in our neighboring regions. And now, through Dagestan, Kizlyar is heading to Grozny to meet with the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov and ask his charitable foundation for funds for the treatment of children Maryam from Astrakhan and Timur from St. Petersburg.
The traveler doubts that in the context of a pandemic of a new coronavirus infection, he will be able to reach the Indian border, but this does not scare him, since moving around Russia will provide an opportunity to study his native country well and make many new friends, as happened in the Kalmyk village of Dzhalykovo.
There he met the head of the rural municipality, Oleg Ainov, admired the lotuses blooming in the local canal and found himself a four-legged companion – a local homeless mongrel, named by him Fox.
