Strange village sinks in sandy sea

People in Shoyna village in northern Russia are no stranger to sand when their homes can often be buried by sand to the roof.

This small village is located on the edge of the Arctic Circle, so people not only have to cope with the cold but also live on sandy land stretching 10km along the White Sea coast.

Wind often blows sand into hills and surrounds houses in the village.Sometimes the wind can blow sand up to the roof in just one night.

That's why people here never shut down when they sleep.They were afraid that when they got up, they wouldn't be able to open the door.

In the village, a bulldozer must regularly work to "dig" the house out of the sand hill.

Shoyna Village was founded in the 1930s by several fisherman families and because of the number of fish and lush marine life offshore.By the 1950s, the village was expanding rapidly and had a population of 1,500 and more than 70 boats.

But the adventurous sea voyages then reduced the population in the village and gradually, the fishing disappeared.

Currently, Shoyna village has only 300 inhabitants living on unemployment and pensions, some go hunting geese to earn extra income.

But now more than half of the village has been submerged by sand.

It is thought that the effects on the permafrost and the destruction of the sea floor have released a huge amount of sand.

Shoyna Village is almost completely isolated from the outside.The only way to get to the island is by waterway or airplane.