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The Forest Nenets – about 1500 people - live in the basin of the Pur and Taz rivers in the southeast of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the east of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra.
The Nenets Autonomous Okrug [9] ( Russian: Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг; Nenets: Ненэцие" автономной округ’, romanized: Nyeneciye” awtonomnoy okruk’ [10]) is a federal subject of Russia and an autonomous okrug of Arkhangelsk Oblast. Its administrative center is the town of Naryan-Mar.
- Hенёцие автономной ӈокрук
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The okrug is covered by tundra. The Nenets people live chiefly by reindeer herding. Many groups are settled in permanent villages. Russians live mainly in the administrative centre, Naryan-Mar, and the urban district of Amderma. Area 68,100 square miles (176,400 square km). Pop. (2010) 42,090; (2014 est.) 43,025.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The former group is much smaller (roughly five percent of the total Nenets population) and its language, considered seriously endangered because few if any children learn it, is spoken by only about 1,500 people. The language of the Tundra Nenets, the larger of the two groups, is spoken by more than 25,000 people, but children in some regions ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Nenets are an ethnic group of 35,000 nomadic reindeer herders who live in northern Russia and speak a language related to Finnish. They are also known as the Nentsy, Yurak or Yurak-Samoyeds. Nenets that follow their traditional customs dress in reindeer skins, eat raw fish, drink reindeer blood, practice ritual sacrifice, and sleep outside ...
The Nenets, also known as Samoyed, are a Samoyedic ethnic group native to northern arctic Russia. According to the latest census in 2010, there are 44.857 Nenets in the Russian Federation, most of them living in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
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.
