The Khanty, also known in older literature as Ostyaks, are an Ob-Ugric indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with the M
Khanty man in Tomsk, 2006.
Khanty family standing in front of a chum, their traditional tent
A chum is a temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia, Russia. The Evenks, Tungusic peoples living in Russia, Mongolia and China also use chums, as do the
Tyvan chums in ethnocultural complex of Aldyn-Bulak, Russia, Tyva