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The Nenets ( Nenets: ненэй ненэче, romanized: nenəj nenəče; Russian: ненцы, romanized : nentsy ), also known as Samoyeds (deprecated term), are a Samoyedic ethnic group native to Arctic Russia, Russian Far North.
With a territory around 1.5 times the size of France, the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District (YNAO) is located in the West Siberian north, just northeast of the geographic border between Europe and ...
Nenets. Plural: Nentsy. Formerly: Samoyed or Yurak. Related Topics: Siberian peoples. Nenets, ethnolinguistic group inhabiting northwestern Russia, from the White Sea on the west to the base of the Taymyr Peninsula on the east and from the Sayan Mountains on the south to the Arctic Ocean on the north. At present the Nenets are the largest group ...
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History of the Nenets. The proto-Samoyeds migrated to the Arctic in the first millenium BC from the Altai-Sayan region near Mongolia. There, they interbred with a short-statured aboriginal Arctic people, and became the Nenets. Those short-statured aboriginal people live on today in Nenets legends as Sihirtia.
The Forest Nenets, around 1,500 individuals, reside in the northern tundra within the catchment area of the Pur River and the Numto mesa. Their territory extends from the upper reaches of the Kazym, Nadym, and Pim rivers to the upper reaches of the Agan. According to the 2021 All-Russian Population Census, the total Nenets population is 49,787 ...
The Nenets are most numerous (41 000 according to census of 2002) indigenous people in Russian. In the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, as well in other regions, the Nenets form a minority (about 14-15 % in the Nenets Okrug). Majority of the Nenets live in rural areas, and there are a few villages where they are in majority.
Nenets is the singular noun for the Nentsy people, ( ненец ‘nenets’, ненцы ‘nentsy’ (pl.) in Russian ), one group of the various peoples that inhabit the Russian tundra. This Samoyedic group includes the Enets, Selkup, and Nganasan people. The Nentsy were referred to as "Yurak Samoyed," the term Samoyed coming from ...
