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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, watches – and sometimes directs – the herd movement as cows begin to calve.  The group’s objective is to keep them in one place during this crucial period, before mosquitoes force both people and caribou to move to higher ground in nearby mountains.
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  • As a Komi reindeer herding clan prepares to move, they strip a canvas cover off a chum, exposing the warm reindeer skin lining below.  Piece by piece, everything will be loaded onto reindeer-driven sleds and driven across the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a newborn reindeer calf uses its shaky legs to chase the herd through lichens on the tundra. Because reindeer are always moving, calves must be able to run very shortly after birth.
    RUe 070423-078.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 070422-091.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, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
    RUe 070416-054.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070423-073.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070422-035.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a newborn reindeer calf uses its shaky legs to chase the herd through lichens on the tundra. Because reindeer are always moving, calves must be able to run very shortly after birth.
    RUe 070423-077.jpg
  • Risking a dousing north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  steers his sled straight through a meltwater bog on the tundra near Snopa village.
    RUe 070423-178.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 070422-092.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, surveys the vast, frozen tundra as his reindeer rest from wallowing through deep, wet spring snow.
    RUe 070417-124.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
  • 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, Piotr Terentev, of the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herder, slows down a sled to keep it from running over reindeer as their caravan descends into a stream bed.
    RUe 070414-455.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.
    RUe 070414-174.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herders grill reindeer meat on a stick over coals of an outdoor campfire.
    RUe 070414-097.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
    RUe 070416-055.jpg
  • After a cold, rainy night on the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a group of nomadic Komi reindeer herders warm up and eat a quick breakfast of bread and grilled reindeer meat in a grass-cutter’s hut near Snopa village.  Left to right:  Arthum Khantazeski, Alexei Semyashkin, Vasily Chuprov, and Alexei Vauchesky.
    RUe 070423-022.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070422-032.jpg
  • Nomadic reindeer herder Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá drives his sled across the melting tundra while migrating with the last remaining Komi clan still to live on the land.  Notably, though, Fyodor is a Nenet, born to a different reindeer herding culture.
    RUe 070420-151.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
    RUe 070416-062.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
    RUe 070416-042.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.
    RUe 070414-423.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.
    RUe 070414-422.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.
    RUe 070414-411.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.
    RUe 070414-410.jpg
  • Reindeer antlers, which can be sold as Chinese medicine, are a valuable source of secondary income for the nomadic Komi reindeer herders who live north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.  These  are carefully preserved in the spring when animals drop their horns.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Vauchesky, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, bides time on a sled as he spends two weeks on the tundra, without a tent, watching the herd.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, approaches the one of the spring's first newborn calves to check its health.
    RUe 070423-057.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a newborn reindeer calf tries out its shaky legs through lichens on the tundra.
    RUe 070423-056.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a newborn reindeer calf tries out its shaky legs through lichens on the tundra.
    RUe 070423-041.jpg
  • Nomadic reindeer herder Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá drives his sled across the tundra while migrating with the last remaining Komi clan still to live on the land.  Notably, though, Fyodor is a Nenet, born to a different reindeer herding culture.
    RUe 070420-138.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 070416-101.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.
    RUe 070414-412.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a few men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders live on the land (without tents), while waiting for cows in the herd to calve.  Left to right: Vasily Terentév, Arthum Khantazeski, Vasily Chuprov, Alexei Semyashkin, and Alexei Vauchesky.
    RUe 070423-093.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski & Vasily Terentev, nomadic Komi reindeer herders, lasso one of their herd to check its health.
    RUe 070423-084.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070423-052.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
  • While grazing on lichen growing north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a reindeer sniffs at her  newborn calf.
    RUe 070423-038.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, domesticated reindeer charge across an interface of tundra and taiga forest near Snopa village, herded by a nomadic Komi clan.
    RUe 070422-125.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, 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
  • A nomadic Komi reindeer herder wears traditional reindeer boots and malitsa robe.
    RUe 070416-191.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 070416-119.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 070416-118.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan wrap their chum (tepee) with a carefully-sewn patchwork of reindeer skins. Over this, they will place a layer of canvas.
    RUe 070414-479.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 070414-273.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 070414-252.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herders await arrival of the reindeer.  Their clothing and goggles come from time performing mandatory  Russian military service.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herder Stass Pan‛kov rests on a stick as he waits for the reindeer herd to arrive to pull his sleds.
    RUe 070414-122.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070414-112.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, wears a reindeer skin malitsa robe with mittens sewed to the ends of its sleeves.
    RUe 070420-109.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070420-020.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 070416-077.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Katerina Vaucheskaya, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, arranges reindeer skins in the family's  their chum (tepee). Note the glass window in the background, a rare modern concession.
    RUe 070414-477.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 holds up netting of temporary pen against crush of reindeer.
    RUe 070414-219.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, some of the more prized possessions of the nomadic Komi reindeer herders are their decorative harnesses, which are sometimes made from reindeer leather and antlers and are passed from one generation to the next. This was made in 1902.
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  • 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
  • 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
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a homemade pair of skis (with skins on the bottom) sits atop a nomadic Komi reindeer herder's sled.  These are often left loaded from one camp to the next.  In the background are chums (tepees).
    RUe 070413-117.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070423-149.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, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, fishes with primitive gear through a hole chopped in a frozen stream.
    RUe 070417-242.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 070417-234.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 070417-230.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
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team across the tundra, where spring snow is soft enough to make travel difficult.
    RUe 070417-111.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team across the tundra, where spring snow is soft enough to make travel difficult.
    RUe 070417-064.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 70+ year old Rema Chuprova and one of her sons, members of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, erect the poles of their reindeer-skin chum (tepee).  The boards and spruce boughs help to keep the floor warm.
    RUe 070414-470.jpg
  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia. Driving this sled is Stass Pan'kov.
    RUe 070414-385.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 070414-363.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
  • With his dog aboard his sled, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  navigates between frozen tundra hummocks as he pushes the herd closer to areas where they want the cows to calve.
    RUe 070423-188.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070423-151.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, relaxes on his sled after a long day watching the animals owned by his clan.
    RUe 070422-142.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 070422-024.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070417-244.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, scientist Alexi Volkov, who is traveling with the nomadic Komi reindeer herders, fishes with primitive gear through a hole chopped in a frozen stream.
    RUe 070417-238.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 070414-359.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
  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
    RUe 070414-347.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 070414-346.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Komi reindeer herder Marie Terentéva, a nomad,  disassembles spruce poles that hold up her chum, while others work on other chums.
    RUe 070414-038.jpg
  • 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, men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders eat and drink in their chum (tepee), waiting for the calving season to begin. Left to right:  Alexei Semyashkin , Alexei Vauchesky, Arthum Khantazeski, and Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá (who is actually Nenet, not Komi, and unrelated to anyone else).
    RUe 070421-121.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
  • 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, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a matriarch of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, prepares to drive a train of sleds across the tundra.
    RUe 070416-196.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 070416-012.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070414-318.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-035.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herder Piotr Terentév awaits arrival of the reindeer to migrate to a new camp.  His clothing and goggles come from his time performing mandatory  Russian military service.
    RUe 070414-158.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Nenet woman and her baby wait outside a store in Snopa village.  The Nenet are a mongoloid ethnicity  and are the primary reindeer herders of northern Russia (though, unlike the local Komi people, none herd reindeer nomadically in this region).
    RUe 070421-222.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder eats grilled reindeer meat as his dog hopes for a bite.
    RUe 070414-109.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder eats grilled reindeer meat as he waits for animals to arrive to pull his sled.
    RUe 070414-105.jpg
  • Every few years the nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan selects a new leader.  In 2006 it was Vasily Terentév, Marie Terenteva's younger son.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a matriarch of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, serves dinner to her son Vasily  in the family's chum (tepee).
    RUe 070419-101.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Chuprov, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  repairs an aging Russian snowmobile the group uses for finding and herding their animals after nightly grazing in the wild.  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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