From Siberia, an Unlikely Cry: ‘We Need Greenpeace Out Here!’
At a truck stop at the northern terminus of the Vilyui ice highway in northeastern Siberia, drivers make small talk not about life on the road but rather the life of the road.
It might last another week, suggested one driver casually, tucking into a steaming plate of meatballs.
“Not likely,” countered Maxim A. Andreyevsky, 31, the driver of a crude oil tanker truck. “Didn’t you see the shimmer on the surface? It will be gone in a day or two.”
Maxim Babenko for The New York Times