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Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK) has published an article about a new study from the European University at St. Petersburg. Researchers analyzed seasonal snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle routes in the Khatango-Anabarsky district (northern Krasnoyarsk Krai) and Yakutia. To do this, they proposed a new approach to mapping northern territories, combining remote sensing of the Earth via satellite imagery with methods from social anthropology.

At the meeting, the parties expressed mutual interest in cooperation and discussed prospects for academic initiatives, as well as possible formats for joint work.

The project director is Nikolai Vakhtin. The participants are all employees of CESIS, the main researchers are Kirill Istomin and Elena Lyarskaya.

The book Reindeer herders’ thinking: A comparative research of relations between economy, cognition and way of life (Verlag Der Kulturstiftung Sibirien, 2021) is a result of more than 10 years of fieldwork in the tundras of Komi Republic and Nenets Okrug.