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Tundra Research Station: Field-based Research on Post-Soviet Dynamics in Kola Reindeer Husbandry

The Tundra Research Station of Murmansk Arctic State University (TRS-MASU) in the Murmansk Region, established in 2000, conducts field-based research on post-Soviet dynamics in Kola reindeer husbandry. It is equipped with various facilities including tents, sheds, sauna-hut, and winter transport equipment. The station is now open for interdisciplinary research activities in both the human and natural sciences.

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Tundra Research Station: Field-based Research on Post-Soviet Dynamics in Kola Reindeer Husbandry

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  1. Tundra Research Station of Murmansk Arctic State University (TRS-MASU)

  2. Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Region The Station was created in 2000 for carrying out field-based research of post-Soviet dynamics in Kola reindeer husbandry

  3. Funding Funding came from numerous research projects, in their majority hosted by the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Tromsø. Among them, most decisive have been the following: 1. RENMAN: The Challenges of Modernity for Reindeer Management: Integration and Sustainable Development in Europe’s Subarctic and Boreal Regions (2001-2003). 5th Framework Programme of the European Union; 2. Social-Science Migrating Field Station: Monitoring the Human-Rangifer Link by Following Herd Migration; Kola Peninsula (2006-2008).InternationalPolar Year Individual Project No 408; 3. Kola Saami Herders in Post-Soviet Society: Ethnopolitics in Urban and Tundra Spaces (2009 –2012) Research Council of Norway (NFR) Project No 195413; 4. INPOINT: Socioeconomic significance of developmental projects in Northwest Russia: The insiders point of view’ (2011-2015), Research Council of Norway (NFR) Project No 209372

  4. The mobile station ensured the possibility of following herd migration during its annual cycle

  5. Tundra Research Station MASU In June 2016 the Station was made available to students and staff of MASU-Murmansk for conducting interdisciplinary research activities in both the human and natural sciences

  6. The Station is close to the site of an ancient Sami Settlement (Melent’evskiyPogost)

  7. There are numerous traces of former habitation but there has been no archaeological research to date in this part of the Kola Peninsula

  8. TRS consists of the following bigger pieces of equipment: • A tundra tent with stove (gamme) for 2-3 people

  9. In the tent: 2 plank beds, stove, rafts, plank floor

  10. Sheds, a celar, 2 metal containers for storing food and clothing

  11. The camp site is suitable for pitching additional tents

  12. A small turf covered sauna-hut was built on the Eastern bank of Lake Kedd’kyavr (Ketkozero)

  13. Rubber dinghies for river/lake trips

  14. Winter transport equipment: a snowmobile, 2 freight sleds

  15. In the Spring-Summer of 2016 an auxiliary mobile camp was built on the banks of Lake Golozero озеро Кетькозеро, ТИС МАГУ озеро Верхнее Голозеро, Передвижной лагерь ТИС МАГУ

  16. Auxiliary Mobile Camp

  17. The Auxiliary Camp overlooks Lake Upper Golozero

  18. A feature of Upper Golozero is its transparent water

  19. Auxiliary camp: conical (lavvu) tent

  20. Store outhouse at auxiliary camp

  21. Summer stove and oven

  22. Since 2014 researchers at TRS began to study human-animal interaction (extra-human socialities)

  23. We welcome researchers who would like to work at the Station. For enquiries: • innaryzhkova@yandex.ru • konstantinovyulian01@gmail.com !

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