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Nenets wrestling in the tundra, Nadym Region, Siberia  
   

Nenets wrestling in the tundra, Nadym Region, Siberia

Around and about in Arctic Siberia

January 26th 2012
The train took us out of Moscow's suburbia with its usual rapidity and into the land of snow-coated wooden cottages, picket fences and endless forest that would greet our every glance through the train window for the next forty eight hours before thinning out into sub-Arctic forest tundra on our journey's third and final day. We passed Rostov Veliky, turrets on the gentle, whitewashed wal ... read more
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