Career
Sulyandziga"s home region is the Bikin River valley, located in close proximity to the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve, which was designated United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage in 2001. The Bikin valley is covered with dense forest and constitutes an important habitat for the Amur tiger. During the late 1980s, Pavel Sulyandziga lived in the village of Krasny Yar, where he was successful in mobilizing the population against the administration"s plans to grant timber harvesting licenses to a Soviet-Korean joint venture led by Hyundai.
Since then, he has remained one of the most outspoken indigenous rights activists in the Russian Federation.