Jack London repeatedly noted in his works the devotion of northern dogs. Pyotr Voronkov also did not ignore them, talking about the heroic devotion of a husky named Balt. In memory of this dog’s feat, two monuments were erected - in New York and in the city of Nome in Alaska.

You can write a whole ode to the dogs of the North. I remember one of my friends was quite surprised to learn that in Norway they feed them salmon. Not every day, of course... But what if your life sometimes depends on the strength and intelligence of the dog? Here you will give away the last sandwich with black caviar...

But no jokes. There are two monuments to Laika named Balt - in New York and in the city of Nome in Alaska.

At the beginning of the 20th century, an epidemic of pneumonia began in Nome, which threatened to kill all the children of the city. A vaccine was urgently needed. The nearest settlement where it was available was 300 kilometers away. The owner of the best dog sled in the city hit the road. We reached the settlement safely, but on the way back there was a snowstorm. The dogs walked through the snowstorm, straining all their strength. We've gone more than half the way, but we can't go any further. One after another, exhausted, they lay down in the snow. Then the owner unharnessed Balta and attached a bag of medicine to his collar. There was no other way out.

Balt took him to the village. However, as soon as the collar was taken off, the dog jumped out into the street and began barking, calling people, demanding that they follow him. Of course, he was extremely exhausted and his paws were bleeding... But what could all this matter if the owner dies there in the snow?! And he led people to the freezing man.

The man no longer thought about anything, he knew that he could not get out of the snow captivity. At times it seemed to him that a dog was barking somewhere in the distance, but he understood that this was a hallucination. And even when the dog’s hot tongue began to lick his face, he was also sure that this was just nonsense...

Ode to the dogs of the North