The countryside surrounding Sorokka possesses a continuous history, some might even stretch the point and say a written history, that reaches at least as far back in time as any in Egypt or China. In fact, it took the ethnic cleansing that occurred under Stalin in the 1930 s to finally push the remaining Finns further west into their own country. The petroglyphs remain. They can be seen on cliffs scoured smooth as ceramic by the retreating glaciers that fled this land after the ice age ten thousand years ago. They chronicle the daily life of an advanced hunting culture.
Several petroglyphs show the hunting of beluga whales .
One of the most dramatic and artful of these drawings shows twelve men in a boat of indeterminate construction. A man at the bow holds a harpoon aloft. Several thick lines already lead from the boat into the back of the wounded animal. Other pictures show the villagers cutting up a whale for distribution. Moose, geese, swans, reindeer can also be seen, these are the common species upon which Northern hunters have always relied for subsistence.