No victims from the blaze at remote location in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous region.
Animals cannot forage for lichen under the snow crust on the Yamal peninsula.
Fires have wreaked havoc this summer with Yakutia and the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous the latest to be hard hit.
For hundreds of years visitors to this Arctic outpost have been frightened by terrifying totems and human sacrifices.
Currently there are 730,000 animals but numbers are 'unsustainable', risking disease spreading and chronic overgrazing.
‘Thousands’ perish amid calls for a state of emergency in the region, with fears anthrax vaccine is a cause of death.
A nenets granny walks into the mobile shop, where I'm getting a local sim, puts a wrinkled hand on the counter and says ‘I need an iPhone'.
Over 300 years old, the 'jetons' - used in lieu of coins or for counting - were found along with artifacts hoarded by the Northern Selkups.
Through his extraordinary photographs, Sergey Anisimov has done more than most to show real Siberia to the world.