The author describes tight, asymmetrical minor folds in well‐bedded sands, loams and clays exposed by thermal abrasion of ice‐rich sediments on the west coast of Yamal and the north coast of Yugor Peninsula. The folds are commonly underlain by massive bodies of ground ice. The author postulates that the folds are the product of a southward flow of ice within an ice‐sheet sitting on the Kara Shelf, over unconsolidated sediments which were already frozen.