We Built The Warmest Shelter for a Nomad Family Surviving Arctic Siberia

We Built The Warmest Shelter for a Nomad Family Surviving Arctic Siberia

Deep in the Yamal tundra, beyond the Arctic Circle, a Komi nomad family survives at –50°C using ancient traditions passed down for centuries. No roads. No electricity. No civilization.

This film takes you inside the world of the Komi people — an Indigenous tribe of the Russian Far North who live completely off the grid, surviving through large-scale reindeer herding. Sharing the frozen tundra with the Nenets, they have preserved their language, customs, and way of life for generations.

They live in cone-shaped dwellings called chums — built from wooden poles and thick reindeer hides, heated by a central stove that keeps families alive when temperatures drop to –60°C.

Reindeer provide everything: food, clothing, shelter, and transportation across the vast, roadless tundra.Far from the noise of the modern world, the Komi remain the guardians of their ancestors' traditions — a living link to a way of life that has almost disappeared from Earth.

📍 Yamal Tundra, Arctic Siberia, Russia

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