Granta 125: After the War (11 page)

1.
Chums
shield herders from temperatures of -45 degrees Celsius in the Nenets Autonomous Region.

2. A herder rounds up his reindeer.

3. A herder undergoing alcoholism treatment in Naryan-Mar.

4. A reindeer dehorned for China’s aphrodisiac market.

5. Filip, 70, and his wife, Angelina, 68, butcher a reindeer.

6. Monument to the armed forces above Murmansk, a strategic city during the Cold War.

7. Trees killed by acid rain near the nickel-processing facility at Nikel.

8. Sulphur dioxide emitted from the facility at Nikel.

9. In Zapolyarny, Murmansk province, where the groundwater is acidified by the nickel plant (top right corner).

10. Sergei and Masha at polar midnight in Zapolyarny.

11. Lights shine from the last occupied flat in an apartment block in Yor Shor, Vorkuta.

12. An empty boarding house in downtown Vorkuta, a labour camp under Stalin.

13. Alexander, 35, in Revda.

14. Valery kisses Lena in front of his friend, in Vorkuta.