Real Life

• Due to the policy of 60-es in Soviet Union many Khanty were “encouraged” to move to bigger villages “poselki”

with easy access to

medical and social

care and education,

but most of Khanty

still feel genuinely at

home only at old

historical settlements.

Fishing on canoe. Old clan settlement

Ozernoye “Tukhemter”, Kargasokskiy

Region of Tomsk. Taken Summer 1998, Filtchenko A.Y.

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