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Yar Sale, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia
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1996
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Maria Stenzel
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Compulsory boarding school for Nenets children began in the era of Soviet communism and is still the law today. Nenets culture has prevailed, though—these schoolchildren are singing traditional songs in front of a makeshift traditional chum (tent) inside their state school.
(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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