It was early May when we got ourselves to Kazakhstan. Some of the rivers were flooded, some still had winter levels. Water was extremely cold everywhere and I suffered a lot with out my pogies. Everywhere, except hardest rapids, we were kayaking as two teams. One leaded by Vasilii Porsev, the other one was trusted to me.

So, the final chord of our Sayan expedition 2008 started. We had 8km of hiking up river Biluty for the start. Today we woke up earlier then usual to pack up, put boats behind our backs and hit the trail. The weather was quite nice, sunshine and warm. We planned to run this river in three days. So we stashed everything that seemed not that important in the bushes, packed boats with real minimum of food and started to hike up. There were no trail and we were bush wacking through Siberian taiga, eventually finding an animal trail, which would end before it really starts.

On Februrary 20 2009, Riga, the capital of Latvia, welcomes everyone
for the premiere of the new film by kayakUSSR productions. "Empire",
the new epic movie about adventures of international whitewater team,
will be presented on Andreysalovskaya sail boat.

“Empire” the new whitewater kayak movie from our team!