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A colony of tents, or "chums", belonging to Nenets herders stand in the Arctic tundra in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region. The are the original people living in the Russian Arctic, before being crushed by Soviet collectivisation and affected by modern oil and gas exploration.
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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A colony of tents, or "chums", belonging to Nenets herders stand in the Arctic tundra in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region. The are the original people living in the Russian Arctic, before being crushed by Soviet collectivisation and affected by modern oil and gas exploration.
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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A Nenets herder collects his reindeers in -40C (-40F) in the Arctic tundra outside in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region. They are the original inhabitants in the Russian Arctic before being displaced by Soviet collectivisation and modern gas and oil exploration.
The herders sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine.
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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A Nenets herder collects his reindeers in -40C (-40F) in the Arctic tundra outside in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region. They are the original inhabitants in the Russian Arctic before being displaced by Soviet collectivisation and modern gas and oil exploration.
The herders sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine.
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.
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Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.
Email Justin Jin for usage instructions.
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Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.
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Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.
Email Justin Jin for usage instructions.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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A Nenets chops wood. Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.
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A Nenets chops wood. Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.
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Reindeer herder Simyon travel hours by sled from his tent in the tundra to buy supplies at the village shop in Sovetsky.
Construction of gas pipelines in the tundra is threatening the herders’ way of life, forcing them to travel further afield in search of pastures.Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Reindeer herder Simyon travel hours by sled from his tent in the tundra to buy supplies at the village shop in Sovetsky.
Construction of gas pipelines in the tundra is threatening the herders’ way of life, forcing them to travel further afield in search of pastures.Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.
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Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.
Email Justin Jin for usage instructions.
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Reindeer herders Simyon and Vanya travel hours by sled from their tent in the tundra to buy supplies at the village shop in Sovetsky.
Nomadic people like them have a mutually cautious relationship with the Russians who live in the Far North.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Reindeer herders Simyon and Vanya travel hours by sled from their tent in the tundra to buy supplies at the village shop in Sovetsky.
Nomadic people like them have a mutually cautious relationship with the Russians who live in the Far North.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Filip Andreev (70) and his wife Angelina Andreeva (68) were born in the tundra, but their families were forced to settle in towns under Soviet collectivisation. Here, they cut apart a reindeer brought back from the Arctic tundra outside Naryan-Mar.
2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Filip Andreev (70) and his wife Angelina Andreeva (68) were born in the tundra, but their families were forced to settle in towns under Soviet collectivisation. Here, they cut apart a reindeer brought back from the Arctic tundra outside Naryan-Mar.
2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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A WWII monument stands above Murmansk, the world's largest Arctic city and a vital industrial and shipping hub. The city became an important military base during the Cold War with Finland and Norway just across the border.
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A WWII monument stands above Murmansk, the world's largest Arctic city and a vital industrial and shipping hub. The city became an important military base during the Cold War with Finland and Norway just across the border.
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Karp Belgayev, a coal miner, walks through Yor Shor, an abandoned village near Vorkuta where he is among the last ten inhabitants. Miners say that after ten years working underground it is impossible to remove black rings from around the eyes.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Karp Belgayev, a coal miner, walks through Yor Shor, an abandoned village near Vorkuta where he is among the last ten inhabitants. Miners say that after ten years working underground it is impossible to remove black rings from around the eyes.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Alexander Krashevski says he looks older, but he is only 35. Alcoholics are among the few staying on in crumbling Arctic cities. Most others have moved south in search of jobs as Soviet-era industries collapse. The local population is sharply falling, replaced in part by an influx of alcoholics like Alexander in search of cheap living.
2011 by Justin Jin
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Alexander Krashevski says he looks older, but he is only 35. Alcoholics are among the few staying on in crumbling Arctic cities. Most others have moved south in search of jobs as Soviet-era industries collapse. The local population is sharply falling, replaced in part by an influx of alcoholics like Alexander in search of cheap living.
2011 by Justin Jin
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Alexander Krashevski says he looks older, but he is only 35. A heavy alcoholic, he started drinking at school when he was 14.
Alexander was originally from Murmansk City, capital of Murmansk Province. Four years ago, he and his 26-year-old brother Yuri moved to Revda, a crumbling "Mono-city" where the whole town is hanging on the fate of a single, dying factory. The local population is sharply falling, replaced in part by an influx of alcoholics like Alexander in search of cheap living.
Here, they scape together 70 roubles to buy 250ml of medical spirit.
2011 by Justin Jin
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Alexander Krashevski says he looks older, but he is only 35. A heavy alcoholic, he started drinking at school when he was 14.
Alexander was originally from Murmansk City, capital of Murmansk Province. Four years ago, he and his 26-year-old brother Yuri moved to Revda, a crumbling "Mono-city" where the whole town is hanging on the fate of a single, dying factory. The local population is sharply falling, replaced in part by an influx of alcoholics like Alexander in search of cheap living.
Here, they scape together 70 roubles to buy 250ml of medical spirit.
2011 by Justin Jin
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Alexander Krashevski says he looks older, but he is only 35. A heavy alcoholic, he started drinking at school when he was 14.
Alexander was originally from Murmansk City, capital of Murmansk Province. Four years ago, he and his 26-year-old brother Yuri moved to Revda, a crumbling "Mono-city" where the whole town is hanging on the fate of a single, dying factory. The local population is sharply falling, replaced in part by an influx of alcoholics like Alexander in search of cheap living.
Here, they scape together 70 roubles to buy 250ml of medical spirit.
2011 by Justin Jin
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Alexander Krashevski says he looks older, but he is only 35. A heavy alcoholic, he started drinking at school when he was 14.
Alexander was originally from Murmansk City, capital of Murmansk Province. Four years ago, he and his 26-year-old brother Yuri moved to Revda, a crumbling "Mono-city" where the whole town is hanging on the fate of a single, dying factory. The local population is sharply falling, replaced in part by an influx of alcoholics like Alexander in search of cheap living.
Here, they scape together 70 roubles to buy 250ml of medical spirit.
2011 by Justin Jin
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Alexander Krashevski says he looks older, but he is only 35. A heavy alcoholic, he started drinking at school when he was 14.
Alexander was originally from Murmansk City, capital of Murmansk Province. Four years ago, he and his 26-year-old brother Yuri moved to Revda, a crumbling "Mono-city" where the whole town is hanging on the fate of a single, dying factory. The local population is sharply falling, replaced in part by an influx of alcoholics like Alexander in search of cheap living.
Here, they scape together 70 roubles to buy 250ml of medical spirit.
2011 by Justin Jin
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Alexander Krashevski says he looks older, but he is only 35. A heavy alcoholic, he started drinking at school when he was 14.
Alexander was originally from Murmansk City, capital of Murmansk Province. Four years ago, he and his 26-year-old brother Yuri moved to Revda, a crumbling "Mono-city" where the whole town is hanging on the fate of a single, dying factory. The local population is sharply falling, replaced in part by an influx of alcoholics like Alexander in search of cheap living.
Here, they scape together 70 roubles to buy 250ml of medical spirit.
2011 by Justin Jin
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Rasma Stodukh from Riga in Latvia spent 13 years as a political prisoner in a Gulag camp in Vorkuta. She stayed on after her release in 1960.
Rasma’s children left years ago but she is cared for by neighbors and says she is resigned to living out her days in the city.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Rasma Stodukh from Riga in Latvia spent 13 years as a political prisoner in a Gulag camp in Vorkuta. She stayed on after her release in 1960.
Rasma’s children left years ago but she is cared for by neighbors and says she is resigned to living out her days in the city.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
Email justin@justinjin.com for instructions.
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Gases emitted from the nickel mining combine in the Russian Arctic town of Nikel kills almost all vegetation within 5 km radius. The combine, built in 1937 during Stalin's reign, emits five times more sulphur dioxide -- the cause of acid rain -- than the whole of Norway just seven kilometres away across the Russian border.
In 2001, Norway gave Norilsk Nickel, the head company, 32 million euros to modernise the facility and cut pollution. The money disappeared, and the pollution carries on.
The pollution is caused
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Gases emitted from the nickel mining combine in the Russian Arctic town of Nikel kills almost all vegetation within 5 km radius. The combine, built in 1937 during Stalin's reign, emits five times more sulphur dioxide -- the cause of acid rain -- than the whole of Norway just seven kilometres away across the Russian border.
In 2001, Norway gave Norilsk Nickel, the head company, 32 million euros to modernise the facility and cut pollution. The money disappeared, and the pollution carries on.
The pollution is caused
2010 Justin Jin
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Gases emitted from the nickel mining combine hangs over the Russian Arctic town of Nikel and kills almost all vegetation within sight. The combine, built in 1937 during Stalin's reign, emits five times more sulphur dioxide -- the cause of acid rain -- than the whole of Norway just seven kilometres away on the Russian border.
In 2001, Norway gave Norilsk Nickel, the head company, 32 million euros to modernise the facility and cut pollution. The money disappeared, but the factory was not improved.
Sulphur dioxide emitted from the factory kills vegetation, pollutes ground water and causes asthma, especially among children.
2010 Justin Jin
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Gases emitted from the nickel mining combine hangs over the Russian Arctic town of Nikel and kills almost all vegetation within sight. The combine, built in 1937 during Stalin's reign, emits five times more sulphur dioxide -- the cause of acid rain -- than the whole of Norway just seven kilometres away on the Russian border.
In 2001, Norway gave Norilsk Nickel, the head company, 32 million euros to modernise the facility and cut pollution. The money disappeared, but the factory was not improved.
Sulphur dioxide emitted from the factory kills vegetation, pollutes ground water and causes asthma, especially among children.
2010 Justin Jin
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Girls stand on hot-water pipes in Zapolyarny, a nickel-processing sister town of Nikel. Sulphur dioxide from the factory kills vegetation, pollutes ground water and causes asthma.
2010 Justin Jin
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Girls stand on hot-water pipes in Zapolyarny, a nickel-processing sister town of Nikel. Sulphur dioxide from the factory kills vegetation, pollutes ground water and causes asthma.
2010 Justin Jin
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The Olcon iron-ore mine in Olenegorsk, north of the Arctic Circle in Murmansk province, Russia
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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The Olcon iron-ore mine in Olenegorsk, north of the Arctic Circle in Murmansk province, Russia
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Miners smoke under a "No Smoking" sign after work at the Severny pit, one of five coal mines still operating around Vorkuta. A decade ago there were 13.
Average life expectancy for a miner in the Far North is around 54, but many die in their forties.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Miners smoke under a "No Smoking" sign after work at the Severny pit, one of five coal mines still operating around Vorkuta. A decade ago there were 13.
Average life expectancy for a miner in the Far North is around 54, but many die in their forties.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Sergei and Masha, a 19-year-old mother, drink beer during polar midnight in spring in the nickel-producing town of Zapolyarna. Here the fortune of the population is declining with the collapse of heavy industry in the Arctic north.
2010 Justin Jin
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Sergei and Masha, a 19-year-old mother, drink beer during polar midnight in spring in the nickel-producing town of Zapolyarna. Here the fortune of the population is declining with the collapse of heavy industry in the Arctic north.
2010 Justin Jin
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A prostitute solicits clients in Murmansk City, the biggest Arctic city on earth. While the region is full of resources such as metals, oil and gas, the population lives poorly.
2011 by Justin Jin
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A prostitute solicits clients in Murmansk City, the biggest Arctic city on earth. While the region is full of resources such as metals, oil and gas, the population lives poorly.
2011 by Justin Jin
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A former iron-processing plant lays abandoned in Kirovsk city in Murmansk Province. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, many heavy industries in the Arctic were closed as it no longer makes economic and strategic sense to support these industrial communities in the extreme climate and isolation.
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A former iron-processing plant lays abandoned in Kirovsk city in Murmansk Province. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, many heavy industries in the Arctic were closed as it no longer makes economic and strategic sense to support these industrial communities in the extreme climate and isolation.
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Elderly people walk by a half-abandoned housing block in Teriberka, once a vibrant fishing and farming community after WWII. Teriberka's population shrunk from about 14,000 at its height to just more than 1,000 today after the fishing industry collapsed, the town's administrative status was lowered and people moved south to seek work.
Today, Teriberka is again in the spot-light with the construction of a base there for the landing of the a gas pipeline from the world's largest know natural gas field.
2010 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Elderly people walk by a half-abandoned housing block in Teriberka, once a vibrant fishing and farming community after WWII. Teriberka's population shrunk from about 14,000 at its height to just more than 1,000 today after the fishing industry collapsed, the town's administrative status was lowered and people moved south to seek work.
Today, Teriberka is again in the spot-light with the construction of a base there for the landing of the a gas pipeline from the world's largest know natural gas field.
2010 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Yorshor, an abandoned village near Vorkuta. Most people have left after the closure of the Soviet-era coal mine.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Yorshor, an abandoned village near Vorkuta. Most people have left after the closure of the Soviet-era coal mine.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
Email justin@justinjin.com for instructions.
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Alexander Yelpayev is a Cossack, which he describes as “a Russian with an added stamp of quality.” He lives in the outskirt of Vorkuta town.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Alexander Yelpayev is a Cossack, which he describes as “a Russian with an added stamp of quality.” He lives in the outskirt of Vorkuta town.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Valery Zhukov, a married miner and union representative in Severny village outside Vorkuta, dances with his lover Lena who lives in the same neighborhood. His friend Alexander is in the back.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Valery Zhukov, a married miner and union representative in Severny village outside Vorkuta, dances with his lover Lena who lives in the same neighborhood. His friend Alexander is in the back.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Valery Zhukov, a miner and union representative in Severny village outside Vorkuta, and who is married with a daughter, is comforted by his lover Lena who lives in the same neighborhood.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Valery Zhukov, a miner and union representative in Severny village outside Vorkuta, and who is married with a daughter, is comforted by his lover Lena who lives in the same neighborhood.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Severny pit is one of five coal mines still operating around Vorkuta. A decade ago there were 13.
Average life expectancy for a miner in the Far North is around 54, but many die in their forties.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Severny pit is one of five coal mines still operating around Vorkuta. A decade ago there were 13.
Average life expectancy for a miner in the Far North is around 54, but many die in their forties.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
People walk by an empty boarding house in Vorkuta. The city’s population has fallen by a third since the break-up of the Soviet Union, when subsidies for the Far North were reduced.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
People walk by an empty boarding house in Vorkuta. The city’s population has fallen by a third since the break-up of the Soviet Union, when subsidies for the Far North were reduced.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Nina Merzlikina, 75, and Sergei Kostenko, 45, have packed up their belongings at this apartment in Yor Shor village in expectation of eviction by bailiffs. Local officials want to close the village, near Vorkuta town, so they can shut off supplies of gas and electricity.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Nina Merzlikina, 75, and Sergei Kostenko, 45, have packed up their belongings at this apartment in Yor Shor village in expectation of eviction by bailiffs. Local officials want to close the village, near Vorkuta town, so they can shut off supplies of gas and electricity.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
Email justin@justinjin.com for instructions.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Buildings around Vorkuta are being surrendered to the elements as people flee to the south. In this apartment block on the edge of the tundra in Yor Shor village outside Vorkuta town, only one family is left.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Buildings around Vorkuta are being surrendered to the elements as people flee to the south. In this apartment block on the edge of the tundra in Yor Shor village outside Vorkuta town, only one family is left.
Vorkuta is a coal mining and former Gulag town 1,200 miles north east of Moscow, beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures in winter drop to -50C.
Here, whole villages are being slowly deserted and reclaimed by snow, while the financial crisis is squeezing coal mining companies that already struggle to find workers.
Moscow says its Far North is a strategic region, targeting huge investment to exploit its oil and gas resources. But there is a paradox: the Far North is actually dying. Every year thousands of people from towns and cities in the Russian Arctic are fleeing south. The system of subsidies that propped up Siberia and the Arctic in the Soviet times has crumbled. Now there’s no advantage to living in the Far North - salaries are no higher than in central Russia and prices for goods are higher.
Copyright 2009 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
Email justin@justinjin.com for instructions.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Russian soldiers march on the Red Square after guarding it during the Russia Day celebrations.
Copyright 2007 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Russian soldiers march on the Red Square after guarding it during the Russia Day celebrations.
Copyright 2007 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
A worker from gas and oil exploration company "Seismorazvedka" guides an all-terrain "Vibrator" in the Arctic tundra in the Nenets Autonomous Region. The vehicle, made by French company Sercel, uses seismic vibration to test the structure of the earth crust below to help prospect for oil and gas. Billions of tonnes of gas and oil have been found in the region in the last decade.
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
A worker from gas and oil exploration company "Seismorazvedka" guides an all-terrain "Vibrator" in the Arctic tundra in the Nenets Autonomous Region. The vehicle, made by French company Sercel, uses seismic vibration to test the structure of the earth crust below to help prospect for oil and gas. Billions of tonnes of gas and oil have been found in the region in the last decade.
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Workers prepares to drill into the permafrost at a well in Novy Urengoi, Siberia, Russia. The drill bit, embedded with diamond discs along the cutter, costs around 50,000 euros each. It is pushed down by a 10-ton load and turns at up to 200 revs per minute.
Achimgaz is a joint-venture between German company Wintershall, a subsidiary of BASF, and Russian gas giant, Gazprom.
Russia has some of the world's largest natural gas deposits.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Workers prepares to drill into the permafrost at a well in Novy Urengoi, Siberia, Russia. The drill bit, embedded with diamond discs along the cutter, costs around 50,000 euros each. It is pushed down by a 10-ton load and turns at up to 200 revs per minute.
Achimgaz is a joint-venture between German company Wintershall, a subsidiary of BASF, and Russian gas giant, Gazprom.
Russia has some of the world's largest natural gas deposits.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Portrait of Andrei, a tank driver for the oil and gas prospecting company "Siesmorevzedka". Typically, they work in the cold, isolated Arctic tundra for the entire winter, returning to civilisation only in spring.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Portrait of Andrei, a tank driver for the oil and gas prospecting company "Siesmorevzedka". Typically, they work in the cold, isolated Arctic tundra for the entire winter, returning to civilisation only in spring.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Workers test a gas drilling facility at the Kumzhinskoe gas field, located in the delta of Pechora River, 60 km from Narjan-Mar city in Russia’s Nenets Autonomous Region. In 1979, an explosion in one of the wells caused an uncontrolled gas fountain, with the condensate polluting huge areas of the tundra around, including the Pechora River. In May 25, 1981, the Soviets tried to collapse the field with an underground nuclear explosion at 1470 m depth. The explosion went wrong, causing even more damage and pollution. After that the field was closed and the area marked a nature reserve.
Recently, more gas was found in the area. In 2007, then-President Vladimir Putin signed a decree demarcating the area from the nature reserve so that drilling work can resume. Environmentalists condemn this, saying the project too prone to further accidents in a delicate environment.
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Workers test a gas drilling facility at the Kumzhinskoe gas field, located in the delta of Pechora River, 60 km from Narjan-Mar city in Russia’s Nenets Autonomous Region. In 1979, an explosion in one of the wells caused an uncontrolled gas fountain, with the condensate polluting huge areas of the tundra around, including the Pechora River. In May 25, 1981, the Soviets tried to collapse the field with an underground nuclear explosion at 1470 m depth. The explosion went wrong, causing even more damage and pollution. After that the field was closed and the area marked a nature reserve.
Recently, more gas was found in the area. In 2007, then-President Vladimir Putin signed a decree demarcating the area from the nature reserve so that drilling work can resume. Environmentalists condemn this, saying the project too prone to further accidents in a delicate environment.
2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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A LUKoil worker repairs a drilling well in the Komi Region in the Russian Arctic, home to some of the world's largest natural gas deposits.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
A LUKoil worker repairs a drilling well in the Komi Region in the Russian Arctic, home to some of the world's largest natural gas deposits.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
A LUKoil worker repairs a drilling well in the Komi Region in the Russian Arctic, home to some of the world's largest natural gas deposits.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
A LUKoil worker repairs a drilling well in the Komi Region in the Russian Arctic, home to some of the world's largest natural gas deposits.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Workers from the company Bashneft builds a gas drilling well for Polar Light Company in the Nenets Autonomous Region in the Russian Arctic.
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Workers from the company Bashneft builds a gas drilling well for Polar Light Company in the Nenets Autonomous Region in the Russian Arctic.
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A LUKoil worker repairs a leaking pipe in the Komi Region in the Russian Arctic, home to some of the world's largest natural gas deposits.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
A LUKoil worker repairs a leaking pipe in the Komi Region in the Russian Arctic, home to some of the world's largest natural gas deposits.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Photo embargoed until 2013.
A man working for the oil and gas prospecting company "Siesmorevzedka" braves a snowstorm in the Arctic tundra. Typically, these men work in the cold, isolated wilderness for the entire winter, returning to civilisation only in spring.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Photo embargoed until 2013.
A man working for the oil and gas prospecting company "Siesmorevzedka" braves a snowstorm in the Arctic tundra. Typically, these men work in the cold, isolated wilderness for the entire winter, returning to civilisation only in spring.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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A man working for "Siesmorevzedka" rubs himself with snow during sauna in the Arctic tundra. The water is heated by the diesel tank on the left of the picture. Typically, these men work in the cold, isolated wilderness for the entire winter, returning to civilisation only in spring.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
A man working for "Siesmorevzedka" rubs himself with snow during sauna in the Arctic tundra. The water is heated by the diesel tank on the left of the picture. Typically, these men work in the cold, isolated wilderness for the entire winter, returning to civilisation only in spring.
2012 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Sunken boats and abandoned houses lay rotting by an icy bay in Teriberka, a former prosperous fish-processing community.
Today, Teriberka is again in the spot-light after the world's largest known natural gas reserve – the Shtokman gas field – was discovered off its shore. Multi-national companies, led by Gazprom, is rushing in to built the area into a landing base for the gas.
Teriberka's population shrunk from about 14,000 at its height to just more than 1,000 today after the fishing industry collapsed, the town's administrative status was lowered and people moved south to seek work.
Today, Teriberka is again in the spot-light with the construction of a base there for the landing of the gas pipeline from the world's largest known natural gas field.
2010 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Sunken boats and abandoned houses lay rotting by an icy bay in Teriberka, a former prosperous fish-processing community.
Today, Teriberka is again in the spot-light after the world's largest known natural gas reserve – the Shtokman gas field – was discovered off its shore. Multi-national companies, led by Gazprom, is rushing in to built the area into a landing base for the gas.
Teriberka's population shrunk from about 14,000 at its height to just more than 1,000 today after the fishing industry collapsed, the town's administrative status was lowered and people moved south to seek work.
Today, Teriberka is again in the spot-light with the construction of a base there for the landing of the gas pipeline from the world's largest known natural gas field.
2010 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Two girls play in the snow on the Arctic Coast in the town of Teriberka, a decrepit fishing town that has shrunken from a population of 14,000 in the 1970s to just more than 1,000 now.
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Two girls play in the snow on the Arctic Coast in the town of Teriberka, a decrepit fishing town that has shrunken from a population of 14,000 in the 1970s to just more than 1,000 now.
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