UrFU Scienticts Publish Book about Yamal

10:02, March 2, 2015

The members of the expedition to Yamal-Nenets autonomous district have described how to reconcile mining operations with breeding the deer

The members of Archaeology and Ethnology department of the Faculty of History (UrFU Institute of Humanities and Arts) have published the collective monograph “Ethnical expertise on Yamal: Nenets encampments and oil-and-gas fields”. It is devoted to Kruzenshtern gas field development in the west of the Yamal Peninsula without infringing upon the Nenets’ interests.

“We were on the Yamal Peninsula in 2013,” a co-author of the monograph and a member of the expedition Svetlana Belorussova says.

“During our expedition we carried out an ethnical expertise to find out how oil-and-gas field development influences the life of the natives, whose main occupation is breeding the deer. And we managed to figure out how to reconcile mining with the natives’ lifestyle.”

According to the authors, the book will be full of examples and will be interesting not only to those engaged into the theoretical studies but also to students keen on life of the Yamal natives, deer-raising and specific features of the area.

The book was written under the guidance of Andrey Golovnev, Head of Archaeology and Ethnology department, as a part of Russian Scientific Fund programme “Mobility in Arctic: ethnic traditions and technological innovations”.

The book contains not only the results of the expertise but also the way it was carried out.