The Giants They Erased From History — Lumberjacks of Siberia

The Giants They Erased From History — Lumberjacks of Siberia

Why do dozens of photographs from the 1880s through early 1910s show Siberian logging crews containing human beings of impossible scale—nine, ten, sometimes eleven feet tall—standing alongside normal-sized workers in frozen forests with equipment and structures that match their proportions? Across Siberian Russia, the Russian Far East, and northern territories, archival images preserve individuals whose very existence challenges everything we’ve been taught about industrial labor history, positioned with work crews operating massive saws, transport sleds, and logging camps with architectural features sized precisely to their frames. Credit to : Tartaria Vault