Indigenous peoples of the Far North.
Reindeer breeders from Leninsky farm.
An Eskimo family from Novoye Chaplino settlement.
Buryats and Evens performing the “Acquaintance” dance at a meeting of groups of 26 smaller peoples of the North and Far East.
Evenks living in the Polar settlement of Yessei, the Evenki Autonomous Area.
A nomad camp of reindeer-breeding Chukchi from Kanchalan settlement, the Chukotka Autonomous Area.
Residents of a Khanty village.
Elderly Ulchs from Mongol settlement.
Udege tiger-catchers in Ussuriysk taiga.
Sami people during a meeting of groups of 26 smaller peoples of the North and Far East.
Nivkhs from Nekrasovka settlement receiving guests with smoked fish according to an ancient custom.
A boy performing a shaman’s dance with a magical drum – a shaman’s timbrel – during an annual Mansi national culture festival.
Kamchatka’s Itelmens celebrating Alkhalalalai – the Day of giving thanks to the Nature. This ancient holiday is celebrated when the indigenous peoples of Kamchatka finish their summer and autumn work. They are not only giving their thanks to the forest and the rivers, but also ask the spirits of killed animals for forgiveness for having to kill them. The ceremony includes a cleansing rite, when everyone goes through a hoop made of birch tree twigs, and the installation of a wooden idol (photo).
An indigenous inhabitant of the Taimyr Peninsula in the Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) Autonomous Area, which was included as a region in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in 2007.
