#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Last year, the family community Hohorei (eng.: Swan) became the winner of the Taimyr World grant program and organized the first events stated in the plan. Now the national community activists have begun to implement the next stage of the Ust-Yenisey Privoz grant project.
Recently, several families of reindeer herders, along with their livestock of domestic reindeer, moved to the right bank in the Ust-Port area. This is a serious step for reindeer herders, but the Nenets say that this is where they hope to graze their herds on new, previously unused pastures. Now Ust-Port began to be neighbors with several families of tundra dwellers, who, in turn, turned out to be closely connected with the village. Now in the village you can buy the necessary products and sell meat and fish.
The new community of tundra dwellers and villagers confronted them with the need to communicate more closely and help each other. Thus, in the Hohorei community, the idea was born to provide assistance to relatives in the delivery of food and essential goods in the Ust-Port tundra.
“At first glance, it may seem that this will be a well-organized courier business, but all help is provided free of charge due to the ancient traditions of the indigenous peoples of Taimyr, when the laws of selfless help apply in the tundra”, says one of the community founders, Ivanes Yaptune.
Now five Nenets clans with a total number of about 30 people are uniting around Ust-Port. Families migrated to the Ust-Port tundra, and the Hohorei community became a kind of bridge for the exchange of goods between the aborigines and the outside world. The community has experience in traveling in the field using modern vehicles, skills in working with complex equipment, and mobile and satellite communications. To study technology, the Hohorei community, within the Ust-Yenisei Privoz project, organized a master class I Would Become a Driver for young people who were interested in the undertaking of their fellow villagers.
Residents of the village, children and teenagers were told in a presentation format about the design of snowmobiles, the rules of safe driving in the Arctic tundra, the children listened to experienced drivers and shared their own knowledge in an interactive manner.
The Ust-Port children have already taken part in another competition of the Hohorei community for the best photo about the North – Native Land Expert. The photographs by Angelina Komarova Sunset, Rainbow by Daria and Victor Titarenko, photos by Ilya Palchin Dog and Goose Meeting, Daisies by Oleg Yaptune and Sunset by Saveliy Palchin and the works of other young villagers took their rightful place in the Ust-Port exhibition.
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Text: Denis Kozhevnikov, Photo: Hohorei community
