PHOTO OF THE DAY July 29, 2004  

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Where Yar Sale, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia
When 1996
Photographer Maria Stenzel

"Nenets in Yar Sale catch up on the news while displaying their finest reindeer coats and boots. Though the Soviets collectivized the herds and introduced state schooling for the children, about a third of Russia's 35,000 Nenets have kept their nomad culture almost intact."

—From "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine

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