Ergaki. The taiga experience of Siberian Old Believers is to the advantage of the RF Armed Forces
Vladimir Zarudnitsky:
It is noted that a full-fledged course on survival in taiga conditions at an altitude of approximately 1300-1400 meters above sea level is being conducted. It is at this altitude that the center "Ergaki" is located - the foothills of the Western Sayan.
The course includes: overcoming water obstacles, gorges, rocks, glaciers, skills for obtaining fire, food production. Separate occupation - orienteering in the taiga.
Soldiers, in addition, are trained in the use of pack animals, obtaining purified drinking water.
In the format of training activities, a parachute landing was carried out from a helicopter, and measures were taken within the framework of special tactical, fire and physical training.
One of the routes in the taiga along its length is about 100 kilometers. Such a march through the taiga wilderness was accompanied by local residents from the mentioned communities of Old Believers, for which the places on the Sayan Mountains are an open book, each page of which is well known.
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