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PHOTO OF THE DAY January 8, 2004  

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Where Bovanenkovo, Siberia, Russia
When 1996
Photographer Maria Stenzel

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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