A ZIRIXIAX AND HIS FLEET-FOOTED FOUR-IX-HAXD 



During the nineteenth century a few Zirinians (also called Syrenians), a nomadic people 

 residing on the west side of the Urals, migrated to Lapland in an effort to outrun a dis- 

 ease which was destroying their herds of reindeer. The animals which they brought with 

 them were of a splendid stock. The Zirinians are skillful in handicraft and are excellent 

 hunters. 



Photographs by Nathalie Loubovitsky 



PECHEXGA MOXKS AT WORK OX TIMBERS FOR A HIGHWAY BRIDGE 



Wood is an extremely valuable commodity along the Arctic coast, but there are vast 

 forests of birch and pine in the interior. Under the imperial regime the forests were strictly 

 regulated by the administration of Archangel. 



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