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“Sacha” – Yamal Peninsula, Russia

Photographer: Chiara Felmini

The Independent Photographer Travel Photography Awards

#chiara felmini #photographer #sacha #yamal peninsula #russia #culture #the independent photographer travel photography awards

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An albino arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) in its summer coat, spotted by scientists of the Arctic Research Station of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences near the village of Sabetta in the Yamal Peninsula.

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Yamal Peninsula, Siberia (1992) By Shepard Sherbell

#Shepard Sherbell #ph

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by Tatiana Plotnikova Yamal Peninsula, Russia, 2010

#Tatiana Plotnikova

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The Nenets of Yamal Peninsula and their Laiki by Сергей Анисимов (Sergey Anisimov)

#found on fb #nenets herding laika #laika #nenets

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Ненцы — один из коренных малочисленных народов Севера, населяющих побережье Ледовитого океана от Кольского полуострова до Таймыра. 

Традиционно ненцы занимаются крупностадным оленеводством. На полуострове Ямал кочует несколько тысяч оленеводов, владеющих милионами оленей. Часть оленеводов до сих пор ведут кочевой образ жизни, перемещаясь со стадами по устоявшимся маршрутам — летом на север, а зимой на юг. Кочевой образ жизни сформировал многие элементы традиционной культуры — переносное жилище (чум), оленья упряжка и нарты, одежда, приспособленная к свирепым климатическим условиям. Оленеводческие стойбища практически независимы от внешнего мира и живут на полном самообеспечении. Люди кормят оленей, а олени людей.

The Nenets are one of the indigenous peoples of the North, inhabiting the coast of the Arctic Ocean from the Kola Peninsula to Taimyr.

Traditionally, the Nenets are engaged in large-scale reindeer herding. On the Yamal Peninsula, several thousand reindeer herders roam, owning millions of reindeer. Some reindeer herders still lead a nomadic life, moving with herds along established routes - in summer to the north, and in winter to the south. The nomadic way of life has shaped many elements of traditional culture - a portable dwelling (chum), reindeer teams and sleds, clothing adapted to the ferocious climatic conditions. Reindeer herding camps are practically independent from the outside world and live on full self-sufficiency. People feed deer, and deer feed people.

- Photos and description by Natasha Yankelevich

#Nenets #Siberia #indigenous culture #Natasha Yankelevich #Russia

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Nenets, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia,

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Shell and Unilever are still operating in Russia.

Two of Britain’s biggest companies have been blasted for continuing to operate in Russia after it invaded Ukraine. Despite an exodus of firms after the war began last February, oil giant Shell is still trading Russian gas a year after promising to pull out of the country’s energy market. And Dove soap and Cornetto maker Unilever has been labelled an ‘international sponsor of war’ by the Ukrainian government as it continues to sell food and hygiene products in Russia. The broadside marked a difficult start for boss Hein Schumacher, who took over at the weekend. Campaigners at the Moral Rating Agency (MRA), which pushes for companies to exit the Russian market, have called on Schumacher to ‘do the moral thing’ and pull the business out of the country. 

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‘A Cornetto ice cream seems innocuous until you realise that millions of them being sold each day can quickly pay for the launch of a missile,’ said MRA founder Mark Dixon. ‘Likewise, a bar of Dove soap starts to look pretty dirty when there are enough of them being produced to purchase a Russian tank.’

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Shell, meanwhile, has been accused by Ukrainian officials of accepting ‘blood money’ by continuing to deal in Russian energy. It is shipping Russian gas through a deal with Novatek, Russia’s second-largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) firm, which compels it to buy 900,000 tonnes per year from the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia.

If you are interested in boycotting, Shell is largely unambiguous about its products. However Unilever owns hundreds of brands. This graphic is probably incomplete.

Shell and Unilever are financing Russian terrorist acts like these.

All we know about Kramatorsk pizza restaurant missile strike that killed twin sisters

4 people dead, 34 wounded, 50 cars destroyed and 30 houses damaged: aftermath of Russian strike on Lviv

These are intentional acts of terrorism against civilians; such atrocities take place almost every day. The number of casualties caused by Vladimir Putin and his fellow Kremlin war criminals would have made Osama bin Laden envious.

Frankly, Putin should be regarded the way bin Laden was and should not be normalized. Western companies have had plenty of time to notice what is going on and leave Russia.

BTW, this is not the first time Shell Oil has been chummy with genocidal dictators...

Calls for Shell to apologise for ‘fuelling Nazi war machine’

#invasion of ukraine #western corporations #paying taxes to putin #financing russia's war machine #shell oil #unilever #international sponsors of war #russia #vladimir putin #genocide #war crimes #russia is a terrorist state #россия - террористическая страна #владимир путин #путин – убийца #путин - военный преступник #путин хуйло #геноцид #западные корпорации #союз постсоветских клептократических ватников #путлер #геть з україни #україна переможе #вторгнення оркостану в україну #слава україні! #героям слава!

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mysterious giant crater on the Yamal Peninsula of Siberia

#Mundus

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The Nenets have an animistic and shamanistic religion. There are three worlds - the upper, the middle and the lower. The middle world is where people live. The upper world is where the god of the sky, Num, lives. His name is the same as the Nenets word for weather, which shows how important the elements are to people who live outdoors in such an extreme climate. The lower world is inhabited by Num's evil brother, Nga. The eternal battle between Num and Nga represents both the struggle of the Nenets and their reindeer herds to survive and also the constant changing of seasons. In winter Nga holds sway, whereas in summer it is Num.

Both the upper and the lower worlds have seven levels. Seven is a sacred number for the Nenets and is encountered again and again in relation to their spiritual beliefs. The sacred reindeer sledge, for example, has seven pairs of stanchions, whereas all other sledges have between three and five.

Shamans had the power to travel between the worlds and ask for help for people in the middle world. However, the last really powerful shamans died around 30 years ago. This is because they were persecuted as religious leaders under Stalin and young people simply stopped becoming shamans. There remain, however, a number of half-shamans who are known only to their own relatives. They are able to provide assistance similar to that of the old shamans.

While the upper world is inhabited mostly by gods, the middle world is inhabited by a huge number of spirits that can influence the lives of people. Many animals, places and natural phenomena have their own spirits. Particularly sacred places will often have a pile of reindeer skulls and antlers up to three metres high. The most important ones may have several such piles surrounded by polar bear skulls and carved wooden idols. The most important sacred site is called Severn Chums and is located on the northern coast of the Yamal Peninsula. No foreigner has ever set eyes on it, although one Russian anthropologist did manage to make it there. When migrating past a sacred site, people will leave offerings there. These can be as small as a piece of cloth or some butter. However, if anyone has slaughtered a reindeer while camped nearby they may leave the skull or antlers at the site. If anyone’s sacred sledge or sacred chum pole is in need of replacing, they may leave the old one at a sacred site if there is one nearby. As mentioned above, there are also a number of sacred sites and objects at any Nenets encampment. A chum is supported by a skeleton of 33 wooden poles. One of these stands slightly further out than the rest and this is considered a sacred pole. Nobody, men or women, may cross between the sacred pole and the chum wall. Women, or anyone affected by sya mei (see below) may not cross between the sacred pole and the fire. Also within the chum can be found a number of idols. The smaller ones represent Nenets gods while the larger ones can be either a chum protector spirit or a one of the family’s particularly powerful ancestors, for example a shaman. The gods and ancestors are passed down via the man’s family. The chum protector idol is passed down via the woman’s family. Most of them are carved of wood and dressed in their own reindeer fur clothing, with the exception of the chum protector idol which has no actual substance inside the clothing. Sometimes the idols have their own tools and jewellery and are even given presents by the family. Sometimes they are given a place at the table during meal times. Materials for making new clothes for the idols are kept outside on the sacred sledge along with some other idols, including quite big ones with carved wooden faces. Under normal circumstances guests would never see the contents of the sacred sledge, as it is opened only in great need.

A very important aspect of the Nenets worldview is called sya mei. This is a force from the other world, that of birth and death, which can be dangerous in this world. People connected with birth and death are affected by sya mei, for example newborn children,

anyone who has recently been at a funeral and all post-pubescent women. When a child is born in a chum a reindeer must be sacrificed next to the door and its blood smeared on the floorboards or the ground. People returning from a funeral must perform a special cleansing ceremony where they dance over a bowl of burning fur and grasses. Women must constantly watch their behaviour, as there are a huge number of taboos which, if broken, can bring bad luck to the family. If a woman breaks any of these taboos, she must perform the same cleansing ceremony described above. If one pays attention, one can spot Nenets women around camp observing certain taboos several times every day. Others are much less obvious. Among the easily noticeable ones are: She must not step over ropes, lassoes, herding poles or men’s equipment. You will often see women passing ropes over their head rather than stepping over it. She must not cross an invisible line between the sacred chum pole and the fire. This line also extends out into the tundra and she must not cross it within site of the chum. So if she is behind the chum and needs to cross a few feet to the other side, she must walk all the way around the front rather than crossing directly. She must not step over men while they are lying down in the chum. Likewise she must not hang her fur boots up to dry in the chum, as a man could then walk under them and it would be like she had stepped over him. A woman must never wear a man’s fur boots, but she can wear his fur coat. As you can see, many taboos are to do with the legs or stepping. This is because the lower part of a woman’s body is the part which gives birth, the part most affected by sya mei. Other less obvious ones are that they must not visit sacred sites, cannot cut certain fish, must not cross a bear’s tracks, must not step over a pregnant dog, and so on. To visit Nenets who have preserved their ancient religion, as well as traditions like the sacred pole, sacred sledge and idols, you really need to visit Nenets in the Yar-Sale or Seyakha areas. Nenets closer to Salekhard or in the Polar Ural Mountains have often been somewhat Russified or converted to Christianity, so you are much less likely to see these things.

#indigenous #indigenous russian #indigenous russia #russia #culture #nenet #important #colonization #decolonize #fypシ #fypage #beautiful #powerful

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Features of the operation of power plants in polar waters

The Features of the operation of power plants in polar waters; Large seasonal fluctuations and negative average annual temperatures are among the main features of the Arctic climate. For example, the minimum temperature on the Yamal Peninsula drops to minus 59 °C, and the average annual temperature is minus 5 – minus 10 °C. The severity of the climate in the Arctic determines the temperature of…

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#Arctic climate #polar waters #power plants

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Photographic journey among the Nenets, in Siberia at -50°

It is hard to even imagine what it is like to live in one of the most inhospitable territories on earth, covered in snow all year round, with temperatures dropping below minus 50 degrees in the coldest months. It is in these conditions that the Nenets live, in the Siberian strip of land called the Yamal peninsula, inhabited by herds of animals that cause entire villages to migrate.

Nicola Ducati’s Shades of White series is an account of living with the Nenets for ten days, immersing oneself in their culture and trying to decipher the gestures and minimalist language that describes nature according to the feelings it arouses. There are ten different words just to describe white in all its nuances, and it is easy to think that this is normal, since white in the Yamal surrounds the entire visual horizon, with infinite meanings and textures.

#nicola ducati #photographer #shades of winter photo series #nenets #indigenous people #yamal peninsula #culture #siberia #russia

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Common arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus lagopus) Yamal Peninsula, northwestern Siberia

Photo © Sergey Gorodnichev

#foxes #fox #arctic fox #polar fox #wildlife #arctic wildlife #op

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Kyiv Says 2 Russian Ships Hit in Crimea Strikes Ukraine claimed Sunday to have hit two Russian military ships stationed at the annexed peninsula of Crimea in overnight strikes, as it suffered another night of "massive" Russian aerial attacks. "The Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully struck the amphibious landing ships Yamal and Azov, a communications center, and a number of the Black Sea Fleet's infrastructure sites," the Ukrainian Armed Forces' strategic communications center said Sunday. Read more | Subscribe to our channel

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by Tatiana Plotnikova Yamal Peninsula, Russia, 2010

#Tatiana Plotnikova

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Rain Comes to the Arctic, With a Cascade of Troubling Changes - Yale E360

…It was hunters who first reported, in 2003, that an estimated 20,000 muskoxen had starved to death on Banks Island, in Canada’s High Arctic, following an October rain-on-snow event. It happened again in the winters of 2013-2014 and in 2020-2021, when tens of thousands of reindeer died on Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula. In both places, the rain had hardened the snow and, in some places, produced ice,…

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