Evenks in Yakutia coexist with civilization, lead a nomadic life with their deer and try to revive their native tongue. Planes from Yakutsk (5,160 miles from Moscow) fly to the National Ulus (district ...
RIA Novosti/Michael Kukhtarev In Yakutia in eastern Siberia, the Evenks coexist with civilization. They lead a nomadic life with their deer and are in the process of reviving their native tongue.
Russia's second-largest oil company, Yukos, has launched a massive investment project in the Evenk Autonomous Okrug in central Siberia to drill and pump crude oil. In the first of a three-part series, ...