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The people are known as the nenety/nenaj/nenaye, which means "human". [4] In old Russian, the term Samoyed was often applied indiscriminately to different peoples of Northern Russia who speak related Uralic languages: Nenets, Nganasans, Enets, Selkups (speakers of Samoyedic languages ). Currently, the term "Samoyedic peoples" applies to the ...
Aug 3, 2018 · The Nenets can trace their heritage back about a thousand years on the peninsula. Throughout this time, they have practiced their traditional methods of reindeer herding. In 1961, the Soviet Union collectivised the practice and established a handful of state-run farms. Herders were under fixed contracts and worked for a salary.
- Zita Whalley
At present the Nenets are the largest group speaking Samoyedic, a branch of the Uralic language family. Their name comes from the word nenets meaning “man.”. Descended from people formerly inhabiting southwest Siberia, the Nenets are reindeer pastoralists, fishermen, and hunters (especially of wild reindeer) of the tundra, but they also ...
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The Nenets people of the Siberian arctic are the guardians of a style of reindeer herding that is the last of its kind. Through a yearly migration of over a thousand kilometres, these people move ...
Aug 21, 2019 · For thousands of years the Nenets people have migrated with their reindeer herds across the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic. In October 2016, Alegra Ally travelled to north-west Siberia to ...
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 ...
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 ...
