Reindeer Blog

The new railway line connecting the Yamal Peninsula with the rest of the Russian railway grid has been declared open to regular traffic. Regular operation of the 572 km long railroad to its terminal point – the Karskaya station – was launched in February 15. The line connects major regional installations like the Bovanenkovo gas [...]

Interesting article and superb photography displaying Nenets herders coping with oil and gas installations on their migration routes in the ‘Russian Photo Blog‘. The photographer spent quite some time with herders that migrat through the Bovanekovo filed and was also allowed access to the contstruction site itself. View all the photos here and the article [...]

A Russian film has picked up the top honors at an international film festival in Bulgaria highlighting the best work on extreme sports, adventure and mountains. The award-winning documentary about reindeer herders in the Polar Urals beat 80 films from 27 other countries. “Nyarma” by Edgar Bartenev focuses on the Nenets people, their customs, family [...]

Russia Starts Census of Indigenous Peoples – Download and Listen to MP 3 (Source Voice of Russia)

Пресс-служба Губернатора Ханты-Мансийского автономного округа Югры сообщает, что 10 марта в Ханты-Мансийск съезжаются участники VII съезда оленеводов автономного округа. В его работе  примут участие 50 делегатов (восемь из них – женщины), а также представители Правительства и Думы автономного округа, Ассамблеи коренных малочисленных народов Севера и общественной организации “Спасение Югры”, оленеводческих коллективов “Саранпаульский”, “Казымский” и частных [...]

Традиционный уклад жизни ненцев оказывается под угрозой из-за глобального потепления и планов добычи газа. Этот образ жизни – не затронутый бурями российских революций, гражданских войн и политических репрессий – почувствовал на себе воздействие роста температуры. Он вызывает резкие погодные изменения – посреди весны вдруг приходят метели и морозы, наносящие жестокие удары по и без того [...]

(By Luke Harding, The Guardian) For 1,000 years the indigenous Nenets people have herded their reindeer along the Yamal peninsula. But their survival in this remote region of north-west Siberia is under serious threat from climate change as Russia’s ancient permafrost melts. t is one of the world’s last great wildernesses, a 435-mile long peninsula [...]

By Amie Ferris-Rotman,  67 N LATITUDE, 71 E LONGITUDE, Russia, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The Nenets tribespeople of Russia’s frozen Yamal peninsula have survived the age of the Tsars, the Bolshevik revolution and the chaotic 1990s, but now confront their biggest challenge — under their fur-bundled feet is enough gas to heat the world for [...]

  (Source: BarentsObserver) Gazprom’s construction of the 1100 km long pipeline between the Bovanenkovo field in Yamal to Ukhta in the Komi Republic is violating environmental legislation, local environmentalists say. The critics are joined by several company employees, who say that the pipeline construction is harming the Arctic nature in the area, Regnum reports. Garbage is dumped [...]

Yuri Khudi, and Kirill Seretetto during microsurgery on Lyuba, a baby mammoth discovered on the bank of a remote Siberian river in May 2007. Pic© Pierre Stine.  Over a year ago, the discovery of a baby mammoth, that has since been named Lyuba (after the wife of the herder that first found the remains), in [...]