The Reindeer People

The Chukchi reindeer breeders are peculiar people. They are nomads. Reindeers are their welfare, the purport of life. The mother-reindeer is the main divine being; it protects the Chukchi from misfortune and troubles.
Nature is not friendly towards people here. Only Chukchi can survive in Tundra. They manage to pack their simple baggage in a sleigh and, guided by reindeers, roam from place to place around the boundless expanse of the northeast region of Russia.
A rush period for the Chukchi reindeer breeders comes in winter, when the temperature rises up to 50C at night and in the sunlight of the day it doesn’t exceed 40C in tundra: they should separate young deer from the rest of the herd, the weak from the strong. And it’s quite impressive, considering that the herds of the Chukchi reindeer breeders number some thousands of heads.