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Oh...the dog on the boat that crashed. It's a laika, not so much a "breed" like its most famous descendant, the Siberian husky, as it is what's called a "landrace". That just means there are no formal breeding organizations, pedigrees, etc in a dog population that all tend to look very similar. There are laika breeds now: East Siberian, West Siberian, Russo-European, Karelo-Finnish, Nenets, and Yakut are the ones I've found so far. Unless it was killed or badly injured in the crash, odds are the dog's fine and has either gone feral in the woods or gone back to its owners' home village.

To see some of the amazing things laikas can do, watch the Werner Herzog documentary Happy People, which is about sable trappers in the taiga forest of central Russia.