Torn from the Tundra - RT Documentary

‘Our grandchildren don’t want to be in the tundra,’ complains Myag Hudi, the oldest woman in one of the large nomadic settlements on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. Many nomads worry that their heirs will forget their traditions. Today’s children are not willing to dismantle and reassemble yurts every two days, follow reindeer across the frozen steppe and see nothing of the world beyond the tundra. Just decades ago schoolchildren aspired to return to their native roots. ‘In the first year, I ran off to the tundra—they couldn’t find me!’ Annushka Hudi recalls her time studying at the Soviet settlement boarding school. Now her grandchildren, in contrast, want to move closer to the city. Why is the younger generation cutting ties with the nomadic way of life? Watch our new film, ‘Torn from the Tundra’. #HumanStories@rt__documentary