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These dogs were not related to each other, but had a typical conformation of aboriginal West Siberian Laikas. In 1944, a bitch named Panda and a dog named Borka were brought from Khanty-Mansi National Province. He was a leader of a team working in the Government’s Kennel of All-Union Research Institute for Hunting Industry. Shereshevsky obtained most important dogs and used them for breeding. Other groups of purebred West Siberian Laikas had been formed in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), Perm and Novosibirsk. In 40th and 50th, Government’s kennels played a very important role in the establishing of the West Siberian Laika as a purebred. From time to time new typical looking dogs without pedigrees were brought from remote provinces and used for breeding. Lines of his dogs can be traced in pedigrees of many West Siberian Laikas. Dogs of his breeding became important in the formation of the breed in the entire Russia. By 1944, in Moscow, there were many excellent West Siberian Laikas, among which most outstanding dogs belonged to I. Other important dogs of West Siberian Laikas of Moscow were males Ulf and Ural, female Damka and some other dogs. A Hanty type Laika male named Mishka was born in 1924 from dogs of Obdorsk. The second group of purebred West Siberian Laikas originated in period from 1920 to 1930, in Moscow. The Sverdlovsk group of purebred West Siberian Laikas remained very important before and after World War II. He sired many outstanding dogs that were transferred to individual hunters and Government owned kennels.
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The first group originated from a male named Grozny in Sverdlovsk. In the beginning, two groups of the West Siberian Laika were formed. They bred them pure to the type and avoided crossings with Laikas of Karelian, Zyryan and other types. In 1920 to 1930, hunters of Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg), Moscow and some other cities raised dogs brought from North Ural and the Ob River basin.
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Dogs of Mansi and Hanty attracted Russian hunters, because of their exceptional hunting ability, size, strength, endurance and extraordinary beauty. The West Siberian Laika was established by selective sampling of aboriginal dogs of Mansi (Voguls) and Hanty (Ostyak). Similar dogs have been used by native peoples and Russians of Ural and West Siberia long before they became registered as purebreds under the name the West Siberian Laika. Ancient Russian princes used big long-legged Laikas before invasion of Tataro-Mongols. Light built and fast Laikas of Voguls (Mansi people) have been well known to Russian hunters.