Reindeer in Russia Reindeer in Russia Reindeer in Russia include tundra and forest reindeer and are subspecies of "Rangifer tarandus". Tundra reindeer include the Novaya Zemlya ("R.t.pearsoni") and Lapland ("R.t. tarandus") subspecies and the Siberian tundra reindeer ("R.t. sibiricus"). The subspecies of reindeer, the Novaya Zemlya ("R.t.pearsoni"). on the islands of the Novaya Zemlya, were herded by the Nenets. Novaya Zemlya is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the North of Russia and the extreme Northeast of Europe, the easternmost point of Europe lying at Cape Flissingsky on the Northern island. The indigenous population (from 1872 to the 1950s when it was
Novaya Lyalya Novaya Lyalya Novaya Lyalya () is a town and the administrative center of Novolyalinsky District in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Lyalya River, north of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: It was founded in 1723 as a settlement around a copper-melting plant (which closed by 1744). It was granted town status in 1938. Within the framework of administrative divisions, Novaya Lyalya serves as the administrative center of Novolyalinsky District. As an administrative division, it is, together with seven rural localities, incorporated within Novolyalinsky District as the Town of Novaya Lyalya. As a municipal division, the town