Fishermen, monks and a nun, in front of the log house that they lived in. The monk had arrived to buy fish for the monestery. Furthest to the right a Nentsy man (ethnic group). One of the pictures from the journey to Siberia between Aug. 2 and Oct. 26, 1913. Fridtjof Nansen started his trans-Siberian travel on a freighter from Oslo to Yenisei. The journey went through parts of the Northeast Passage, which was to be opened as a shorter trading connection between Western Europe and the Far East.