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"Yamal, [the government of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region] promised ... The specialist in Spanish, who was the first to translate the books of Gabriel García Márquez into Russian, worked ...
It’s mid-July, and the group of Nenets herders that Yuri leads are about halfway through an annual trek that takes them 400 miles north on the Yamal Peninsula to the Arctic coast—in normal ...
A book on Yamal’s history and culture will be supplied ... augmented reality and interactive maps." The Yamalo-Nenets Region was established in 1930. It is located mostly north of the Arctic ...
Such a difficult environment unites the people physically through a regimented work ethic, but far more importantly, the Yamal-Nenets are unified by a robust and vibrant culture. It is a culture ...
These are the far fringes of the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia's Arctic and for a couple of weeks I'm living here with a family of Nenets reindeer herders. Indigenous to the region, Nenets are among ...
The Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic is the heart of the Russian energy empire. It is home to the world's largest natural gas reserves. But this is also where the migration routes of the Nenets run.
But the Yamal peninsula is also the ancestral home of the Nenets, who have been pasturing here with their droves for over 200 generations. Every year the nomads undertake a journey of 1500 km.