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H ans S chaann ing and b ird fa u n a re se a rch in th e P asv ik valley carcasses, boiled animal sculls and collected eggs. The local forester issued them annual hunting licenses. They sold their kill for a living. Koren usually prepared the trophies for sale, while Schaanning, in addition to hunting, negotiated, kept records, and formalized documents. Koren and Schaanning are known to have been acting together for six years since 1900 to 1905, collected and sold 52 sculls, 224 ani mal skins, 1557 bird skins, and 2488 eggs (Wikan, 2000). These materials were bought by various museums in Norway and other countries as well as p ri vate collectors because northern, and, especially, Arctic species were in great demand and sold very well. Materials from Pasvik were taken not only across Norway but in different countries of Europe and even America. This made the Pasvik River valley famous not only among specialists but also amateur col lectors. Schaanning also collected ethnographic materials and sent them to museums. In 1902-1903 the both zoologists took part in a research expedition to the Novaya Zemlya. On return to Pasvik, they continued their business for some time, but in 1906 Koren left to begin traveling independently around the globe. By tha t time Schaanning had accumulated his field notes that he kept for many years and in 1907 he published them under the title «Bird Fauna of East Finnmark» (Schaanning, 1907). In 1902 he married the sixteen-years old Elsa, a daughter of Nils Rautiola, and they lived on Varlam Island. Hans wanted to build a house on the Norwegian side of the river, and, as a Norwegian citizen, he was given a land plot in the Gjok-bukt (Cuckoo Bay). In 1907 he started building a new house there. Gradually, other structures were built there, including the famous hut with a fireplace (Bjelkestua). It was constructed in the most protruding cape with an excellent view of the river. Schaanning called th is place Noatun borrowing the name from Scandinavian saga (Wikan et al., 1994). This was the place where he received guests, dissected birds and other kill, and made his observations. The hu t has survived until the present time, and was used as a private museum for a long time. H.T.L. Schaanning was the first Norwegian who settled on the Pasvik River in the so-called Upper Pasvik area. Married to a Finnish woman, a citi zen of the Russian Empire, and living on the both sides of the river he also vis ited the area of the Finnish Lake Inari and met local and traveling hunters. To stay in Russia he had to obtain a special document - a kind of residence per mit from Archangel Governor. Thus, Schaanning became a natural scientist of the common border area - a peculiar connecting link between Russia, Norway, and Finland. Steinar Wikan, the author of a number of books about Pasvik who studied documents about Schaanning’s family, writes tha t during construction of a new house, while they were pulling out floating logs Elsa became sick and in 11 days died at the age of 21 years. Hans was left alone with three little chil- 1 5 1