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Nomadic base of reindeer herding Dolgans, Khatanga region, Taymyr, Russia July 1993
In areas around the taiga/tundra boundary in Southern Taymyr since long time different tribes of indigenous peoples have settled. Most of them are still…
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Grey Plover, Pluvialis Squatarola, just hatched, Sterlegova, Taymyr, Russia
The Grey Plover is a long-distance migrant, breeding in the high Arctic of Russia and North America. Outside the short breeding period in the…
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Ivory Gull (pagophila eburnea), Troynoy, North of Taymyr, Russia
The ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) is a high arctic species that frequents ice-filled waters throughout the year. Scattered colonies occur in Arctic Canada, Greenland,…
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Fishing on river ice of the Yenisei, Dudinka, Taymyr, Russia February 1992
Dudinka is a town and the administrative center of Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It used to be the administrative center of…
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Taymyra River Delta, Northern Taymyr, Siberia, 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. Here in…
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Long-tailed Skua (Stercorarius longicaudus), Sterlegova, Coast of Taymyr, Russia July 1990
The long-tailed skua (Stercorarius longicaudus) is the smallest and most slender of the skuas. The long-tailed skua has a circumpolar distribution in Arctic regions.…
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Arctic Tundra melting in late June, “Taymyrsky Zapovednik”, Central Taymyr, Russia 1989
Zapovednik (nature reserve) Taymyrsky was the first destination of the first German-Soviet expedition in 1989 to the Taymyr peninsula in Northern Siberia. The nature…
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Melting ice of Taymyr Lake, Rusyukov, 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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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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Storing fish in a permafrost ice cellar, Lena Delta, Russia
The local people of the tundras of Northern Siberia often store their fish and game in self-built ice cellars in the permafrost, natural freezers,…
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Snowy Tundra near Biranga Mountains, Taymyr, Russia July 1989
The first destination of the German-Soviet expedition in 1989 was the Zapovednik (nature reserve) "Taymyrsky", in central Taymyr peninsula in the north of Krasnoyarsky…
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Airplane at Alykel-Norilsk Airport in snowstorm, Taymyr, Russia
Despite snowstorms and other severe winter conditions the airport of Norilsk and Dudinka, the main connection to the South for hundreds of thousand people…