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A gallery of stunning images supporting Radio 4's 'Siberian Stories', taken by Ivan Boiko.

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Nine-year old Timka Manoshkin with his sister Vasilisa and brother Slava

"There's such a lot of work to do here ...in summer, we work almost every hour of the day"

  • Zoya Manoshkina, ferry-woman
  • Old Believers: 5yr old Vasilisa Manoshkina, Erzhei Old Believer village
  • Georgiy Manoshkin, Old Believer hunter and beekeeper
  • Georgiy Manoshkin
  • Nine-year old Timka Manoshkin with his sister Vasilisa and brother Slava
  • Every morning, Zoya ferries 20 children from Erzhei to school in Sizim
  • Sholban Mongush, nomadic herdsman, western Tuva
  • On the eve of his autumn migration, Sholban Mongush rounds up his herd
  • A rest stop on the autumn migration, a journey of 70km in one day.
  • Borbak Dongak waits with her grandaughter Aldyn-Kys, her sons unload the family yurt
  • Sholban's brother-in-law Angyr-ool holds the crown of the yurt aloft
  • Borbak Dongak waits for the family's herds to appear at the end of their 70km migration
  • Chochigar Kes-Kam, hereditary Tuvan shaman
  • Chochigar Kes-Kam puts on his shaman coat before a ritual - one of several hundred shamans practising in Tuva today.
  • Chochigar Kes-Kam & his brother-in-law feed the fire with milk, sour-cream & cheese to appease the local spirit master
  • Chochigar Kes-Kam
  • Sasha Maynagashev, Khakassian horseman
  • 16yr old Vladik Topoyev catching a wild stallion in the Kyug valley, southern Khakassia
  • For the last 3 years, this group of Khakassian horsemen have been losing up to half their youngstock to predators
  • Many young people are leaving Khakassian villages to seek higher wages in the industrial towns of Russia's Far North.
  • Sasha Maynagashev rides off towards the taiga in search of his horses, which roam free up to 40 km from the camp
  • The Tozhu people of eastern Tuva keep small herds of around 50 woodland reindeer.
  • Ruslan Tozhu talks about his reindeer
  • Ruslan Tozhu, reindeer herder
  • Danil Kyrganai sets off on an all-night foray into the taiga to search for ten missing reindeer.
  • Sholban Bimba - "We have a law of sharing"
  • Danil Kyrganai: "Riding reindeer is the best way to hunt"
  • Danil and Andrei Kyrganai play cards with Sholban Bimba.
  • Sergei Kyrganai, reindeer herder - "Every year, there are fewer and fewer of us out here"
  • As the Tuvan taiga opens up to mining, the reindeer herders are being pushed off their traditional lands.

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