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October 09, 2004

Nenets Schoolboys, Siberia, Russia, 1996

Photograph by Maria Stenzel

By law, Nenets children spend much of the year in boarding school, while their families move with their reindeer herds. Once they are educated and bilingual in Nenets and Russian, children must make a decision between rejoining their nomadic roots or entering the Russian mainstream.

(Text adapted from "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)