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Bovanenkovo, Siberia, Russia
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1996
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Maria Stenzel
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This young Nenets man has come into Bovanenkovo to trade with Russian workers. Bovanenkovo sits atop a huge natural gas field. Employees of the Russian energy conglomerate Gazprom have settled here, adjacent to the Nenets' summer pastureland.
(Text adapted from "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)
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