Gathering plants
The short snow-free period of summer is used to collect vitamin-rich plants and berries, which are preserved in a variety of ways for the winter.
Photo: E. Kasten
Related Dossiers
Gathering plants around the Koryak settlement of Lesnaya
The Nymylans (coastal Koryaks) of the settlement of Lesnaya on the north-west coast of Kamchatka gather numerous plants during the snow-free period of summer.
Contact
Kulturstiftung Sibirien gGmbH
Geschäftsführer:
Dr. Erich Kasten
Uferweg 4
D-16798 Fürstenberg/Havel
Tel +49(0)33093-60671
Partners
Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, Yakutsk
Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Institute of Geography (KF TIG FEB RAS), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski
Alfred-Wegener-Institute and Helmholtz Climate Initiative “Regional Climate Change and its Effects on People" (REKLIM)”, Bremerhaven / Potsdam
Funding
Sponsored by the Eastern Partnership and Russia Program of the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.
