mercredi 15 octobre 2014

Yamal Peninsula

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 Look on the Yamal Peninsula



Yamal Peninsula (Russian:) is located in the Yamal-Nenets region of northwest Siberia, Russia. Which extends to about 700 km (435 mi), and is bordered by the Kara Sea, and the Gulf of Baydaratskaya on the west, and the Gulf of Ob on the east. The language of its indigenous population are: the Nenets. The word "Yamal" means "end of the earth."
Most of the island consisted of the Yamal Peninsula permafrost geology which is a very small place for some areas due to less than ten thousand years. In the Russian Federation, the Yamal peninsula which is the best place to hold the poll reindeer breeding large-scale conventional by nomads. On the peninsula, there are several thousand Nenets reindeer herders and Khanty who lives about half a million local resonance. At the same time, dwell Yamal many types of migratory birds, which were found with well-preserved remains of Lyuba, with giant calf which is due to 37,000 years, by reindeer herders on the peninsula in the summer of 2007.
Yamal hole 
in 2014, was the discovery of the Hungarian Distinguished Yamal or PINGO which drew the attention of the world media.
Believed to be the crater extends to 60 meters (66 yards) also discovered one of the leading researchers of the Center for scientific research in the Arctic, which is Andrei Plekhanov, also told The Associated Press, he is likely to be the crater is the result of "the accumulation of excessive pressure" underground warmer regional temperatures in this part of Siberia. showed tests conducted by a team at the high concentrations Plekhanov unusually of methane near the bottom of the sinkhole.
Yamal Peninsula in West Siberia from the Arctic, is home to reindeer nomads who have preserved the traditional culture of eye-catching, with its way of life and system of spiritual beliefs. And their places of making clothes for the local reindeer fur and living in tents conical reindeer with the continued presence of the camp, consisting of 10,000 head of reindeer in search of grazing, and travel by sled and reindeer migration routes which dates back to thousands of years. It seems the shepherds as a mixture between the Mongols and the Native Americans and their language is unrelated to Russian. And their religious views enjoyed in a world filled with gods and spirits interlocking without schizophrenia for the reindeer, and the subject of their daily lives through various laws relating to respect life and reindeer.
Yamal is a place in Russia's large-scale reindeer herding nomads and shepherds, where the culture has been preserved by the best around. Although there are about fifty of minority-ethnic reindeer grazing in Russia, and the vast majority of them are a sad reflection of what it was before the Soviet Union. There Nenets and Chukchi that speaks the language of Nenets, by contrast, the children of the Yamal-Nenets know speak more than fifty languages ​​much better than Russian. 
differs reindeer herders in Russia among the few groups to Nenets to the south and west, and so on as the cultural, language and spiritual beliefs saved. The reason for this may lie in the way it was administered by the region in the framework of the Soviet Union. While every other nomadic groups reindeer taken collective farms.
Today there are many small villages in the Yamal Peninsula, such as Salemal, Yar, sale, Novi and Port Seyakha.Its residents are a mixture of Russian and Nenets. Residents of the Yamal Peninsula Nenets's, almost half are nomadic reindeer herders and half of them are living a stable life in these villages. During the winter, you see a lot of Nenets dressed in traditional clothing of reindeer furs even in the villages.
Cold
temperatures in the summer between 5C + and + 25C (but can be very cold because of the wind), could drop temperatures in winter and up to -60C with wind bad that affect the temperature of up to 90C, although it is a very extreme case. Even in Salekhard the wind is strong, but in the tundra could be enough to hit your face and burn like acid
There is no tourism infrastructure and no one speaks English. Even Russian is the second language for those who speak the language of Nenets. Independent travel can be followed to spend a real adventure, but you have to know the Russian language, and patience, time and creativity, confidence and ability all this preparation for this visit, this place is quite far from the wild regular support structures.

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