This RIA Novosti photo wire tells about the life of a modern nomad reindeer breeder.
The winter camp of nomad reindeer breeders from the Sychegir clan is located in the Irkutsk Region.
Although this area is not part of the tundra, it is Arctic territory.
The reindeer breeders live inside this tent. Yevgeny from the Sychegir clan can set up this tent in just a few minutes.
Although the area is inhabited by virtually all fur-bearing animals, including sables, squirrels, muskrats, rabbits, red foxes and wolves, reindeer rule supreme here. An Evenk legend has it that the female reindeer is the mother of all living creatures on Earth.
Reindeer provide food, clothing and transport. They provide Yevgeny from the Sychegir clan with milk, meat, wool, horns and even bones. Yevgeny only gives them salt in return.
Until the 1940s, many Evenks from the Sychegir clan had lived in Chuvakar, the local Evenk camp/settlement. They were quite wealthy and owned many reindeer.
Log cabins have replaced tents in Chuvakar today. Maria Sychegir lives inside one such log cabin.
It is women who are supposed to cook food.
There is no access to the Internet at the nomad camp. Here, people read books.
Vasily and Faina are among the last remaining nomad reindeer breeders from the Sychegir clan.
