1. Tundra Research Station of Murmansk Arctic State University (TRS-MASU)

2. Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Region
The Station was created in 2000 for carrying out field-based research of post-Soviet dynamics in Kola reindeer husbandry

3. Funding
Funding came from numerous research projects, in their majority hosted by the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Tromsø. Among them, most decisive have been the following:
1. RENMAN: The Challenges of Modernity for Reindeer Management: Integration and Sustainable Development in Europe’s Subarctic and Boreal Regions ( ). 5th Framework Programme of the European Union;
2. Social-Science Migrating Field Station: Monitoring the Human-Rangifer Link by Following Herd Migration; Kola Peninsula ( ). International Polar Year Individual Project No 408;
3. Kola Saami Herders in Post-Soviet Society: Ethnopolitics in Urban and Tundra Spaces (2009 –2012) Research Council of Norway (NFR) Project No ;
4. INPOINT: Socioeconomic significance of developmental projects in Northwest Russia: The insiders point of view’ ( ), Research Council of Norway (NFR) Project No

4. The mobile station ensured the possibility of following herd migration during its annual cycle

5. Tundra Research Station MASU
In June 2016 the Station was made available to students and staff of MASU-Murmansk for conducting interdisciplinary research activities in both the human and natural sciences

6. The Station is close to the site of an ancient Sami Settlement (Melent’evskiy Pogost)

7. There are numerous traces of former habitation but there has been no archaeological research to date in this part of the Kola Peninsula

10. TRS consists of the following bigger pieces of equipment:
A tundra tent with stove (gamme) for 2-3 people

13. In the tent: 2 plank beds, stove, rafts, plank floor

14. Sheds, a celar, 2 metal containers for storing food and clothing

16. The camp site is suitable for pitching additional tents

17. A small turf covered sauna-hut was built on the Eastern bank of Lake Kedd’kyavr (Ketkozero)

18. Rubber dinghies for river/lake trips

19. Winter transport equipment: a snowmobile, 2 freight sleds

20. озеро Кетькозеро,
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озеро Верхнее Голозеро,
Передвижной лагерь
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In the Spring-Summer of 2016 an auxiliary mobile camp was built on the banks of Lake Golozero

21. Auxiliary Mobile Camp

22. The Auxiliary Camp overlooks Lake Upper Golozero

24. A feature of Upper Golozero is its transparent water

25. Auxiliary camp: conical (lavvu) tent

27. Store outhouse at auxiliary camp

28. Summer stove and oven

30. Since 2014 researchers at TRS began to study human-animal interaction (extra-human socialities)

31. We welcome researchers who would like to work at the Station
We welcome researchers who would like to work at the Station. For enquiries: !