Nenets

The northern forests give way to tundra in the country between the Pechora and the Urals. Nenets communities adapted their movements and livelihoods to this landscape, hunting wild reindeer and using domesticated animals for transport. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries reindeer herding expanded across northern Eurasia, changing the scale of seasonal migration. The tundra and forest margins remained a homeland shaped by the passage of people and herds through a long northern winter.