Daily Life, 3rd prize
Victor Zagumyonnov
Union of Journalists of the USSR
Union of Journalists of the USSR
01 August, 1981
'The people of Chukotka': Walrus hunters on the Chukchi Peninsula. Victor Zagumyonnov made this story as a member of the expedition of the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He spent one month and a half in Chukotka and Kamchatka. The shooting conditions were apparently very difficult due to the constant rain, fog and low clouds.
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