Arctic Adventours, Inc. - JPEG images from Russia and around

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Young Russian in the North (38548 bytes)

The Russians colonized huge areas of the Northern Russia, by obsessively moving administrators 'out there'. This accentuate the future of this new generation Russians here in the administration center Naryan Mar in the middle of the Nenets autonom region.

Young Nenets herdsman (27700 bytes)

Living in very traditional manners and with qualities of life knitted very much to the vulnerable Arctic nature, the future of this young Nenets herdsman are directly threatened by the exploitation and (ab)use of his motherland.

Inside a cathedral of the Solovetsky Monastery (42218 bytes)

A lot of the treasuries that where moved to Petersburg and Moscov when Solovetsky were turned to 'the Gulag', are now returned to the church.

Nenets reindeer herdsmen on the Malozemelskaya Tundra (44172 bytes)

Herding their reindeers like their predecessors did with absolute no use of modern technology they are perhaps the best skilled inhabitors of any Arctic area at the moment.

Tribesheads at meeting in the Nenets area (35285 bytes)

During this session the elder statesman expressed his feeling of something peculiar going on. They reported on an extraordinary number of misberths amongst the reindeers, gradually rising over the last 25 years , but they could not give any explanation. We cannot either, but suspicion goes in the direction of radiation damages.

Solovetsky Monastery (45918 bytes)

This monastery with its history back to the 1500th century are an inevitable part whenever the history of the Northern Russia is told. After being a Gulag campus (where most of the intelligencia were and where Soltsjenitsjyn wrote «A Day In Ivan Denisovitsj Life») is now returned to the church (1992). Ressembling more than 200.000 pilegrims each year tell something about its position in Russian cultural and theological history.