TAKING CENSUS IN RUSSIA
OFFICIALS UNENVIABLE TASK 'l' PA.— Hv Electric Telegraph—Copyright! . (Received 16th January, 9.50 a m.) MOSCOW. 15th January. A census of amazing patchwork of Soviet races, covering one seventh of Ihe earth’s surface, which are believed to be approximately 170 millions, is fixed for 18th January. It has already begun in remote regions where the residents resent the numbering. Officials using horses, reindeer teams and sledges are chasing nomads in the Siberian steppes and frozen tundras of the far North, even .lumping icefloes in pursuit of Samoyeds. first cousins to Eskimos. Already two tribes of Chukchi Indians have been discovered in the extreme north-east.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 16 January 1939, Page 5
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