Yamal Peninsula

Information on The Tundra Nenets

A Nenets fishermens' camp on the bank of the River Taz. Tazovsky region, Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia

Anastasia Valeeva, a 7 year old Komi girl, outside her family's reindeer skin tent at a winter herders'camp in the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia

Elena Agicheva, an elderly Selkup woman holds sable skins caught by her husband at their winter camp in the forest. Krasnoselkup, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia. (2012)

Nenets reindeer herders at their camp on the tundra during a winter storm. Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia

Sergey Khudi, a Nenets reindeer herder selects draught reindeer from a corral. Yamal, Siberia. 1993

A group of Nenets fishermen, haul a fishing net into their wooden boat on the River Taz. Tazovsky region, Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia

A Komi reindeer herder's tent at a winter camp in the Priuralsky region. Yamal, NW Siberia..

Valery, a Nenets reindeer herder, gathers the herd and drives them towards the herders' camp at Cup Lake. Gyda, Tazovsky region, Yamal, Siberia, Russia

Leova Serotetto, a Nenets reindeer herder, at the entrance to his family's tent at their winter camp. Yamal, NW Siberia, Russia

Inside a reindeer skin tent, Daria Serotetto, a young Nenets girl, peers out from underneath a reindeer skin coat she has been sleeping under. Yamal, NW Siberia, Russia.

Nenets women & children outside at a reindeer herders' summer camp on the tundra. Yamal Peninsula, NW Siberia, Russia

A young Nenets boy holding a balloon at the reindeer herders' festival in Nadym. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

The Russian ice strengthened ship, Yuri Arshevsky, has her cargo unloaded in the harbour at Sabetta during the winter. Yamal Peninsula, NW Siberia, Russia

Yevdekiya Taibery, an elderly Nenets woman, sewing a pair of reindeer skin boots inside her family's tent at their winter camp. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Marina Valeeva, a Komi woman, prepares to cut a pattern from a reindeer skin on the floor of her tent, which she will use to make a coat for her daughter. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

An outside cooking area at a Selkup summer camp in the forest. Krasnoselkup, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

A Selkup hunter's wooden hut at a winter camp in the forest near Ratta. Krasnoselkup, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia. (2012)

Kosta Kalin, a Selkup man, returns to a winter camp after hunting Capercaille. Krasnoselkup, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia. (2012)

Cranes and drilling derricks at the port in Sabetta in the South Tambey gas field. Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia

Nyaka, an elderly Nenets woman, using reindeer sinew to sew traditional clothing inside her family's reindeer skin tent. Tambey tundra, Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia.

A Khanty family travelling in convoy to their winter camp on the Synya River. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

A horse & sled being used to transport firewood for the winter in the Khanty village of Yamgort on the Synya River. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

'Sharik', A Nenets reindeer herder's dog sits in the shade by a sled with bread drying on it. Nadym Tundra, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia. 2000

Lidiya, a Khanty woman, hanging up Broad whitefish to dry at a camp on the River Ob. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia.

Two Forest Nenets girls playing with a toboggan at a winter camp in the Purovsky region of the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia.

A Nenets women in traditional dress at a reindeer herders festival in the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia

Using a head net is essential protection from mosquitoes & black flies during the summer in Siberia.

A Khanty family in traditional dress at a Spring festival in the village of Pitlyar. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Buildings at the Yorharovo Neftgaz production facility north of Noviy Urengoi. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

A Khanty reindeer herders' summer camp in the Polar Ural Mountains. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

A Russian made Trecol, a 6 wheel all terrain vehicle, on the frozen River Ob. Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia

Maya Khudi, a Nenets woman wearing a traditional Yagushka (coat) from the late 19th Century, made from Reindeer & Arctic Fox skins. Yamal, Siberia, Russia.

The barred window of a barrack building in which the prisoners' slept at the Kinzhalnyi Stalin Camp near Salekhard. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia.

During a ritual, Hek, a Nenets elder, feeds the idols on his sacred sled. Yamal, Siberia, Russia

Northern lights, Aurora borealis, over a Nenets reindeer herders camp. Yamal Peninsula, W.Siberia, Russia

The first church being built in the City of Nadym in 1997 Yamal, Siberia, Russia.

Reindeer herd move through a clearing in Boreal Forest on their Spring Migration. Yamal, Siberia, Russia