Nature, 3rd prize
Alexandr Polyakov
RIA Novosti
RIA Novosti
01 January, 1988
In the Taymyr peninsula, a tundra region inside the polar circle in Siberia, wild reindeer are hunted for their meat. Their total population in this part of the Soviet Union is estimated at half a million.
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