In northeast Siberia, temperatures can drop to 96 degrees below zero. Boiling water flung from a teacup will freeze before reaching the ground. In these unimaginable conditions, the Eveny nomads have ...
In a land where the ground is always frozen, one creature has nourished man both physically and spiritually. Author Piers Vitebsky tells Debbie Elliott about The Reindeer People, his book about the ...
SALEKHARD, Russia (AP) — The indigenous reindeer herders in Russia's northern Yamal Region, a remote section of Siberia where winter temperatures can sink below minus 50 degrees Celsius, are familiar ...
Two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Tamara Kotevska (“Honeyland”), whose latest feature, “The Tale of Silyan,” premieres at the Venice Film Festival, is readying her next project, a Siberia-lensed ...
Covid has reached even the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic. So vaccination teams are following, and finding ways to inoculate nomadic herders. Indigenous Yamal reindeer herders waited their turn to ...
In a land where the ground is always frozen, one creature has nourished man both physically and spiritually. Anthropologist Piers Vitebsky... Life Among 'The Reindeer People' In a land where the ...