It is the capital of the South Yenisei Cossacks.

But by now it is very difficult to recognize this town.

The peasant emigrants and Red army murdered all the Cossack population and destroyed and burned most of the houses; and it is at present the center of Bolshevism and Communism in the eastern part of the Minnusinsk district.

In the building of the Soviet, where we came to exchange our horses, there was being held a meeting of the "Cheka." We were immediately surrounded and questioned about our documents.

We were not any too calm about the impression which might be made by our papers and attempted to avoid this examination.