Images of Chukotka in the 1990s
By Patty A. Gray
"Life in Russia's Northeast Tundra"


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Main crossroads of Otke and Rultyegina Streets in winter darkness.


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Little Wooden bridge over exposed heating pipes.


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Meat section in the open-air bazaar, "pole Chudes" (Field of Wonders)


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Building pushed off its foundation by permafrost thawing.


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Dog Sled Race


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Korfest- Smelt Fest


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Tug-of-War


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Snow-"mobile"


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Riumochnaia--"The Beer Tent"


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Lenin in front of regional administration building.


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Military Parade


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Hammer and Sickle


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Lenin in the midnight sun.

 

The Artic Tundra
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Goldminers and Reindeer


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Aerial view of the Tundra


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Reindeer corral


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View of a village on the Tudra