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Tundra at sea ice covered Coast, Sterlegova, 75.26N 89.09E, Taymyr, Russia 1991
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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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…
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Melting Tundra, Northern 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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Cape Chelyuskin, northernmost point of Eurasia, Taymyr, Russia
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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Arctic Tundra, Taymyrski Zapovednik Nature Reserve, Central Taymyr, Russia
Arctic tundra and Taymyr river, south of the Taymyr lake and Biranga mountains. The Taymyr peninsula is covered by the most extensive and northernmost…
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Houses at snow-covered road near Dudinka, Taymyr, Russia February 1992
Snowstorms and other severe winter conditions are a challenge for keeping the main transport routes in Northern Siberia open. Remote settlements are often for…
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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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Cuirlew Sandpiper (Calidris Ferruginea), Sibirian Arctic, Russia
The Curlew Sandpiper is a long-distant migratory wader species breeding in the Great Arctic Reserve and Taymyrsky Zapovednik in Central and Northern Taymyr. Within…
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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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Byrranga mountains and Taymyra river with breaking ice, 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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Grey Plover, Pluvialis Squatarola, measured, Sturmanov, 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…