Resumen de Tymlat, Close: Finding Ways Home
In Koryak languages, tymlat means “close.” This name was chosen by Koryak families for their new home when they were forcefully relocated by the Soviet government near a collective farm on the coast of the Bering Sea in the early 1950s. Several northern areas of the Kamchatkan peninsula, in the Russian Far East, can be reached only by helicopter; roads are rare, and relatives often do not see each other during the long winter. Nevertheless, in the summertime young adults go back to Tymlat to work in the tundra, meet with their families, and organize various events. This photographic essay focuses on Tymlat’s youth during the summer of 2019 and, through their stories, explores modern mobility and young Subarctic peoples’ “images of home.”
