Documentary story and stories. "I heard about Volodya in the polar district hospital. My neighbors in the ward were at that time the topographer Alexander Gridevich and the eighty-three-year-old Nenets Yakov Ivanovich Khatanzeev, overgrown with bristly wilds. Notable Nenets. Excellently high, almost militarily built and straight. Above the sloping, wrinkled forehead, a frothy-white, furry supply of hair churns."