History Literature / SannikovLand

''Sannikov Land'' (Земля Санникова) is a 1926 Russian/Soviet ScienceFiction novel by Vladimir Obruchev, that has a very loose [[Film/SannikovLand 1973 film adaptation]] by Albert Mkrtchyan and Leonid Popov. The story is based on the legends about Sannikov Land, an island in the far north of the Arctic Ocean that is warmed by a volcano and inhabited by a tribe called the Onkilon. It is similar to the works of Creator/JulesVerne or Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.

* GodGuise: Downplayed – as the Onkilons are animists, it’s "spirit guise". [[spoiler:Gorokhov]], while sitting high in a tree, shouts to the Onkilons that they should go north to [[spoiler:escape the flood]] and claims he is the spirit of the sky. They believe him.

* MundaneLuxury: Kazachye is a tiny poor village in the back of beyond, but [[spoiler:Annuir, coming from a Neolithic-level settlement, is extremely impressed by it as she encounters things like chairs and cutlery for the first time]].

* AltarDiplomacy: The explorers agree to marry Onkilon girls to ensure the Onkilons' goodwill towards them. They do eventually grow fond of their wives, [[spoiler:but Matu, Papu and Annuen abandon their husbands as soon as the chief starts to grow suspicious of the explorers, and Raku dies in the flood, so the marriage of Ordin and Annuir is the only one that works out]].

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The two Onkilon ladies whose loyalty to the explorers never wavers are Annuir, brave, adventurous, and willing to go to war with Ordin, and Raku, a sweet, quiet and shy housewife.

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: In revenge for the Vampu kidnapping thirteen of their children and killing four of them by the time rescue arrives, the Onkilons kill all the Vampu boys. However, the explorers manage to persuade him to spare the girls and the elderly women.
* TheMole: Annuir spies on the Onkilons after their relationship with the explorers is soured. Ordin warns her not to be too vehement in her defense of him, so that the Onkilons wouldn’t suspect where her loyalties really lie.

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Земля Санникова ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sannikov_Land Sannikov Land]]) is a 1926 Russian/Soviet ScienceFiction novel by Vladimir Obruchev, that has a very loose [[Film/SannikovLand 1973 film adaptation]] by Albert Mkrtchyan and Leonid Popov. The story is based on the legends about Sannikov Land, an island in the far north of the Arctic Ocean that is warmed by a volcano and inhabited by a tribe called the Onkilon. It is similar to the works of Creator/JulesVerne or Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.

* RecycledPremise: The premise is identical to that of Obruchev's earlier novel ''Literature/{{Plutonia}}''. An oasis of warm climate with NotSoExtinct prehistoric flora and fauna in the polar regions is discovered by a group of BadassBookworm explorers, the ecosystem is liable to collapse soon due to some geology-related threat (the dying "sun" in Plutonia, the seismic activity in Sannikov Land), and [[spoiler:the materials from the expedition are all lost]] due to a ContrivedCoincidence. However, ''Sannikov Land'' has a way stronger plot (in constrast to the RandomEventsPlot from ''Plutonia'' with only a couple of actual story arcs) and well-developed characters (while the explorers in ''Plutonia'' are almost interchangeable).

* ShoutOut: Gorokhov wants to shoot a baby rhino, but his friends tell him that the joint PapaWolf and MamaBear attack of the latter's parents would be deadly. In Obruchev's earlier book ''Literature/{{Plutonia}}'', Dr. Gromeko does shoot a baby rhino in highly similar circumstances, almost gets trampled by the adult ones and barely escapes with his life.

* ShoutOut: Gorokhov wants to shoot a baby rhino, but his friends tell him that the joint PapaWolf and MamaBear attack of the latter's parents would be deadly. In Obruchev's earlier novel ''Literature/{{Plutonia}}'', Dr. Gromeko does shoot a baby rhino in highly similar circumstances, almost gets trampled by the adult ones and barely escapes with his life.

Земля Санникова ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sannikov_Land Sannikov Land]]) is a 1926 Russian/Soviet ScienceFiction / SpeculativeFiction / ActionAdventure novel by Vladimir Obruchev, that has a very loose [[Film/SannikovLand 1973 film adaptation]] by Albert Mkrtchyan and Leonid Popov. The story is based on the legends about Sannikov Land, an island in the far north of the Arctic Ocean that is warmed by a volcano and inhabited by a tribe called the Onkilon. It is similar to the works of Creator/JulesVerne or Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.

* ShoutOut: Gorokhov wants to shoot a baby rhino, but his friends tell him that the joint PapaWolf and MamaBear attack of the latter's parents would be deadly. In Obruchev's earlier novel ''Plutonia'', Dr. Gromeko does shoot a baby rhino in highly similar circumstances, almost gets trampled by the adult ones and barely escapes with his life.

* ShoutOut: Gorokhov wants to shoot a baby rhino, but his friends tell him that the PapaWolf/MamaBear attack of the latter's parents would be deadly. In Obruchev's earlier novel ''Plutonia'', Dr. Gromeko does shoot a baby rhino in highly similar circumstances, almost gets trampled by the adult ones and barely escapes with his life.