Tamara is a pensioner from the North Caucasus with Kabardinian and Russian roots. She worked many years in the gas industry in the far north of Western Siberia in the cities of Nadym and Noviy Urengoy, where during winter, temperatures fall below -40 and there is hardly any daylight at…
Month: Wednesday May 8th, 2019
Boris (right) was out with his friends playing chess on Lenin square in the centre of Elista, the capital Kalmykia. The Republic in the south of Russia is mainly inhabited by the Kalmyk people, a nation of Mongol origin that have settled in the region in the early 17th century.…