The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, also known as Yamalia is a federal subject of Russia and an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast. Its administrative center is the town of Salekhard, and its largest c
Nenets people in 2014
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North Districts of Novy Urengoy
Zapolyarnoye gas field
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The Nenets, in the past also called Samoyeds or Yuraks, are a Samoyedic ethnic group native to the Russian Arctic, in the Russian Far North. According to the latest census in 2021, there were 49,646 N
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
…and natural gas) basin in the world covering an area of about 2.2 million km2, and is also the largest oil and gas producing region in Russia. The Nenets people are an indigenous tribe who have long survived in this region. Their prehistoric life involved subsistence hunting and gathering, including the taking…
A Nenets family in the Brekhovskie Islands, 1913
Nenets man, c. 1862
A group of Nenets in Dudinka (2000)
Nenets family, 2006