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Chita-Transbaikal (03.2011)

Six thousand kilometers from Moscow, the Transbaikal Region (Zabaikalsky Krai) of Russia is in far eastern Siberia & shares borders with both China & Mongolia. The capital city, Chita, is the headquarters of the Siberian Military District and until 1991, was a closed city famous for its exiles. Decembrists first sentenced to hard labor were exiled here in 1827, the last Emperor of China was imprisoned here, & more recently, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was held in detention.

An ethnically & culturally diverse region long inhabited by Buryats, Evenks and Russian Cossacks, this vast area is one of extraordinary beauty from the Kodar Mountain Range to the little-known Siberian desert, the sands of Chara.
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A hoof & a bone - nothing goes wasted. Оленьи ноги, с них берётся шерсть на унты.
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A hoof & a bone - nothing goes wasted. Оленьи ноги, с них берётся шерсть на унты.

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  • Дорога на Чинейское местрождение титана.
  • Mountain top.
  • Udokan sunset.
  • Heading off into the sunset.
  • Chara railway station.  Здание вокзала в Чаре.
  • The Baikal-Amur Railway in Chara.
  • Master boot maker, Galina Filippova. Галина Филиппова, эвенсккая мастерица, шьёт унты .
  • Galina Filippova & her grand-daughter in her home in the village of Chapo-Ologo.
  • Galina's grand-daughter has cerebral palsy.
  • Galina makes traditional Evenki fur boots. Pelts used for the boots can be seen drying on boards in the background.
  • A hoof & a bone - nothing goes wasted. Оленьи ноги, с них берётся шерсть на унты.
  • Cleaning up the house.
  • Evenk folk tale narrator. Народная эвенская сказительница и мастерица.
  • Red headband. Evenk girl concentrating on her bead work while making traditional Evenk amulets.
  • Маленькая девочка эвенка Вика вышивает бисером.
  • Vika with Wafaa.
  • Evenki village of Chapo-Ologo in the Kalar Region.
  • Evenk boy on the village road.
  • Village dog.
  • An indigenous Mongol people, about 1,000 Evenki live in the Kalar Region today.
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