On the border with the Arctic Circle. Far north of Russia. 300 km from Arkhangelsk. Restricted area. Here Inhabitants - who base their own survival on hunting and fishing activities – use to build sledges and boats with fragments of space rockets. They also recover and sell all the other...
Raffaele Petralla: Mari People, a Pagan Beauty
There is a population with Finnish ancestors living in a rural area near Joshkar-ola, in the Republic of Mari-El, Russia. They are called Mari, speak a language belonging to the Ugro-Finnic and use a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet. They settled in this area around the fifth century a.C....