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  • A woman shops in an outdoor market in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk Russia
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  • A statue in Arkhangel'sk, Russia, commemorates local heroes of the Russian Revolution.
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  • An abandoned Russian house falls apart by a road leading into the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • An aging, traditional Russian house stands by a road leading into the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • Finely-crafted windows punctuate the log wall of an historic house relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, in a taiga forest near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • Finely-crafted windows punctuate the log wall of an historic house relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • Low clouds and smoke from factories overshadow the northern Russian port of Arkhangel'sk, near the Dvinskay Gulf of the White Sea, leading to the Arctic Ocean.
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  • A river, melting free of ice in the spring, winds beside houses, farms and taiga forests near the northern Russian port of Arkhangel'sk, near the Dvinskay Gulf of the White Sea, leading to the Arctic Ocean.
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  • A statue of Vladamir Lenin stands in front of an office building in the northern Russian port of Arkhangel'sk, near the Arctic Ocean.
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  • A train locomotive passes through the  northern Russian port of Arkhangel'sk, near the Arctic Ocean.
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  • Russian women chat on a bench below an ornately carved log building in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • Russian tourists walk past an historic wooden windmill relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, in a taiga forest near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • The steeple of an old Russian Orthodox church and a modern communications tower demonstrate the contrasts to be found in the northern Russian shipping port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • A relocated historic Russian Orthodox church is preserved in the Malye Korely outdoor museum, in taiga forests near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk, at the edge of the White Sea and Arctic Ocean.
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  • Modern biplanes park at a regional airport in the northern Russian port of Arkhangel'sk, near the Dvinskay Gulf of the White Sea, leading to the Arctic Ocean.
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  • An abandoned Russian log house falls apart and settles into floodwaters near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • Cranes for loading ships crowd a riverbank in the northern Russian port of Arkhangel'sk, near the Dvinskay Gulf of the White Sea, leading to the Arctic Ocean.
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  • Russian teenagers walk and chat below an aging, ornately carved wooden building in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • The city symbol of Arkhangel'sk, a Russian port near the Arctic Ocean, displays the Archangel Gabriel dueling Satan - an odd reference to religion that survived the Soviet era.
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  • Low clouds and smoke from factories overshadow the northern Russian port of Arkhangel'sk, near the Dvinskay Gulf of the White Sea, leading to the Arctic Ocean.
    RUe 070425-177.jpg
  • Russian women walk below an ornately carved log building in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-153.jpg
  • A relocated historic Russian Orthodox church is preserved in the Malye Korely outdoor museum, in taiga forests near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk, at the edge of the White Sea and Arctic Ocean.
    RUe 070426-095.jpg
  • Cyrillic prayers ornament an historic  Russian Orthodox cross relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, in a taiga forest near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • Intricate shingles and a tiny window punctuate the wall of an historic house relocated to the Malye Korely outdoor museum, near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-037.jpg
  • A relocated historic Russian Orthodox church is preserved in the Malye Korely outdoor museum, in taiga forests near the northern port of Arkhangel'sk, at the edge of the White Sea and Arctic Ocean.
    RUe 070426-093.jpg
  • Passengers aboard a Russian helicopter peer out at the tundra as they fly to Arkhangel'sk from a remote arctic village.
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  • Russian women walk past modern apartment buildings in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi Reindeer herders, who are visiting Snopa village to resupply their provisions, watch as a helicopter ferries people back to the nearest big city, Arkhangel'sk. (as viewed from the helicopter)
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a helicopter lands at Snopa village to ferry passengers back to the nearest big city, Arkhangel'sk.
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  • Passengers and their baggage crowd a Russian helicopter flying from Arkhangel'sk to remote arctic villages.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder harnesses domesticated animals to his sled in order to move camp from one grazing area to the next.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow on the arctic Russian tundra, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  charges with his team through a pool atop the permafrost.  Within weeks these pools will generate enough mosquitoes to drive both men and reindeer nearly insane, at which point they will migrate again to drier mountains further north.
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  • A poster for the Russian military encourages recruitment for a career in what is otherwise obligatory two year service for all men in the country.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder displays his knife scabbard that hangs from a traditional decorated belt.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reach their northernmost intersection with the tundra.  These spruce and birch trees are only able to grow so far north because of warming influences of the gulf stream current in the Arctic Ocean.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, navigates his sled across a half-melted tundra bog as he steers the herd towards its next destination.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Terentev prepares tea for his companions who rotate living on the land (without tents), while waiting for cows in the herd to calve.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • In Snopa village, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men chat in front of a building built from spruce logs harvested in the nearby taiga forests.
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  • In Snopa village, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi man stands beside his draft horse.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, relaxes after a long day watching the animals owned by his clan.
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  • Tiny lingonberry bushes grow amongst other plants in the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia. This fruit has survived a long winter under the snow.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  walks in front of spruce trees in a taiga forest while waiting for reindeer to be captured to pull her sled.
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  • Writer Gretel Ehrlich watches as a reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan loads its sleds on the vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • 70+ year old Rema Chuprova, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes in a cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  nomadic Komi reindeer herders hold up netting of a temporary pen against a crush of animals.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herder Stass Pan‛kov jokes with his companions as he waits for the reindeer herd to arrive to pull his sleds.
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  • A nomadic Komi reindeer herder waits outside of Snopa village while his companions buy supplies.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski & Vasily Terentev, nomadic Komi reindeer herders, lasso one of their herd to check its health.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a newborn reindeer calf tries out its shaky legs through lichens on the tundra.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder watches a tractor pull a load of hay (for horses and cattle) towards nearby Snopa village.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic,  nomadic Komi reindeer herders watch a tractor pull a load of hay (for horses and cattle) towards nearby Snopa village.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, charges with his team through an interface of tundra and taiga forests.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, calves being raised for veal are separated from their mothers in a huge barn that protects them from the winter's harsh cold.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  a boat sits in front of a colorful house in Snopa village, close to the Arctic Ocean coast.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Chuprov, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drinks tea in the door of a chum (tepee).
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a hand-made pair of skis with reindeer skins on the bottom, lies in the snow.  These are essential tools for winter mobility to the  nomadic Komi reindeer herding people.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder struggles to start an aging Russian snowmobile used by journalists covering their migration. Most men in the group have high mechanical skills after serving their mandatory two years in the military.  Ironically, the annual top prize for a regional reindeer-sled race is a snowmobile!
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
    RUe 070416-239.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, pampers her dogs as she prepares one of her sleds for migration to another camp.
    RUe 070416-032.jpg
  • 70+ year old Rema Chuprova, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes in a cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
    RUe 070415-042.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes by the wood stove in her cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside.
    RUe 070415-014.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men in the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan slow down sleds to keep them from running over reindeer as they descend into a stream bed.
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  • Videographer Andrew Okpeaha MacLean films  on the vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
    RUe 070414-346.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reach their northernmost intersection with the tundra.  These spruce and birch trees are only able to grow so far north because of warming influences of the gulf stream current in the Arctic Ocean.
    RUe 070425-133.jpg
  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, charges with his team through an interface of tundra and taiga forests.
    RUe 070422-037.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Russian toddler helps her family tend their coal-fired barbeque during a picnic near Snopa village.
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  • Cirrus clouds soar high in the sky above the tundra and taiga forests north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, prepares one of her sleds for migration, while another herder goes to fetch the animals.
    RUe 070416-019.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a newborn reindeer calf tries out its shaky legs through lichens on the tundra.
    RUe 070423-043.jpg
  • Much of the Russian Arctic tundra is comprised of mosses, lichens and tiny lingonberry bushes. The appropriately-named white, multi-branched “reindeer lichen,” (shown here) is a staple for its namesake and is sometime mistakenly called "reindeer moss."
    RUe 070416-227.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
    RUe 070416-218.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a sled stacked with reindeer hides awaits harnessing to reindeer for ongoing migrations of the nomadic Komi clan.
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  • Amidst a herd of reindeer grazing on lichen growing north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a reindeer calf begins to suckle from its mother.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a domesticated reindeer grazes in the tundra.  This animal has recently dropped one antler and the next will fall shortly - an annual occurence.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Chuprov, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, watches over animals temporarily corralled in a pen.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team along a dangerous melting stream in search of fishing holes.
    RUe 070417-200.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drags a string of reluctant reindeer from a temporary pen to pull his mother’s sleds.
    RUe 070416-164.jpg
  • Gretel Ehrlich, guide Andrei Volkov, Komi clan leader Vasily Terentev and other nomadic reindeer herders examine a map of where the group will be traveling while journalists are with their group.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, writer Gretel Ehrlich laughs with Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, who is wearing a traditional malitsa robe as she loads her sled to migrate to another camp.
    RUe 070414-083.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a river winds through taiga forests and seemingly infinite ponds and bogs of the adjacent tundra, which is melting free of its winter snow.
    RUe 070425-121.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer harnessed to a sled graze on vast fields of lichen from the genus Cladonia, (which abounds in the foreground in this image and is sometimes mistakenly called reindeer “moss.”)
    RUe 070422-088.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, stands in front of her chum (tepee), wearing a traditional reindeer skin malitsa robe with mittens sewed to the ends of its sleeves.
    RUe 070420-007.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team along a dangerous melting stream in search of fishing holes.
    RUe 070417-176.jpg
  • Much of the Russian Arctic tundra is comprised of mosses and  lichens.  The appropriately-named white, multi-branched “reindeer lichen,” (shown here) is a staple for its namesake and is sometime mistakenly called "reindeer moss."
    RUe 070416-230.jpg
  • As a Komi reindeer herding clan prepares to move, Maria Terenteva and her son Piotr Terentev dissassemble the poles off their  chum (tepee). Piece by piece, everything will be loaded onto reindeer-driven sleds and driven across the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
    RUe 070416-010.jpg
  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
    RUe 070414-352.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
    RUe 070414-254.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder displays his knife scabbard that hangs from a traditional decorated belt.  Behind him, a woman stands in a malitsa robe and reindeer skin mukluks.
    RUe 070414-093.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, ramshackle log house still provides shelter in Snopa village, close to the Arctic Ocean coast.
    RUe 070421-244.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, an old boat sits amongst sheds and houses in Snopa village, close to the Arctic Ocean coast.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  walks his team through a snowstorm at the edge of a taiga forest.
    RUe 070422-146.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a beautifully crafted reindeer-hide satchel rests atop a nomad Komi reindeer herder's sled.
    RUe 070420-013.jpg
  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
    RUe 070414-349.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, seemingly infinite ponds and bogs appear as the tundra melts free from its winter blanket of snow.  By June, this becomes both impassible and a breeding ground for so many mosquitoes that neither people nor reindeer can stay there.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of a nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan chop and chain saw wood to heat their chum (tepee).
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, fishes with primitive gear through a hole chopped in a frozen stream.
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