The Yamal Peninsula is one of the world’s largest wildernesses where the indigenous Nenets people have migrated across for the past 1000 years. It is here that traditional large-scale nomadic reindeer husbandry is preserved. The Yamal Peninsula also holds Russia’s biggest natural gas reserves. The Nenets have a shamanistic and animistic belief system which foments respect for the land and its resources. Nenet families live on the tundra in reindeer-skin tents.
Yuri Kozyrev, photographer
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