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Packing the MI8 Helicopter, Malaya Logata, Taymyr, German-Russian Taymyr-Expedition 1989
Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taymyr peninsula in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid…
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Vehicle traces in tundra at Sturmanov, 76.00N 96.30E, Coast of Taymyr, Russia July 1989
Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taymyr peninsula in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid…
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Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) breeding, Pyasina Delta, Great Arctic Reserve, Taymyr, Russia July 1991
The Rock Ptarmigan is a sedentary (non-migrating) species which breeds across arctic and subarctic Eurasia and North America (including Greenland) on rocky mountainsides and…
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Melting sea ice near Chelyuskin, Taymyr, Northermost place of Eurasian Continent, Russia July 1989
Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taymyr peninsula in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid…
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Weather station on Troynoy, Izvesti Tsik Islands, Great Arctic Reserve, Russia July 1993
The Izvesti Tsik Islands is an high Arctic archipelago located in the Kara Sea, about 150 km from the coast of Taymyr. Most of…
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Pomarine Skua (Stercorarius pomarinus), Sterlegova, Great Arctic Reserve, Taymyr, Russia
The Pomarine Skua breeds in the Arctic tundra of Eurasia and North America and winters in the southern hemisphere. The species is marine outside…
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Byrranga mountains (background) and Tundra, Central Taymyr, Russia late June 1989
Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taymyr peninsula in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid…
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Field camp of nomadic Dolgan reindeer herders, South Taymyr, Russia
Dolgans are a Turkic people, who mostly inhabit Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The 2002 Census counted 7,261 Dolgans. This number includes 5,517 in former Taymyr…
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Tundra and sea ice South of Chelyuskin, Taymyr, Russia July 1989
Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taymyr peninsula in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid…
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Leningradskaya River, Northern Taymyr, German-Soviet Expedition, July 1990
Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taymyr peninsula in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid…
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North Siberian River, Russia
Hardly anywhere else on earth are such large unfragmented natural landscapes existing anymore than in Northern Siberia. Particularly in the treeless tundra regions the…
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Remains of the Gulag Labor Camp “Rybak Lag” Northeast Taymyr, Russia July 1990
The development of labor camps during the Stalin period forced many hundred thousand people to "settle" in the Russian Arctic. Some of the bigger…