Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

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Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamalo-Nenetsky Avtonomny Okrug; ), or Yamalia, is a federal subject

Federal subjects of Russia

Russia is a federation which consists of 83 subjects. These subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation?two delegates each?in the Federation Council of Russia ....
of Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
(an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast

Tyumen Oblast

Tyumen Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Tyumen. It has administrative jurisdiction over two autonomous okrugs, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug....
).

The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is the largest administrative division of Tyumen with an area 750,300 km². It is also the most sparsely populated with only inhabitants.

The administrative center of the autonomous okrug is Salekhard

Salekhard

Salekhard is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative center of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is believed to be the only town in the world that is located right on the Polar circle....
, and the two largest towns by population are Noyabrsk

Noyabrsk

Noyabrsk is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located in the middle of the West Siberian oil fields, on the Tyumen?Novy Urengoy railway about north of Surgut....
(pop.

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Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamalo-Nenetsky Avtonomny Okrug; ), or Yamalia, is a federal subject

Federal subjects of Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
(an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast

Tyumen Oblast

Salekhard

Noyabrsk

Novy Urengoy

Novy Urengoy is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Population: It is served by the Novy Urengoy Airport....
(pop. 94,456).

Geography and natural history

The Nenets

Nenets

Nenets may refer to:*Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a federal subject of Russia*Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a federal subject of Russia*Nenets people, Samoyedic people...
people are an indigenous tribe that have long survived in this region. Their prehistoric life involved subsistence hunting and gathering

Hunting and gathering

Hunting and gathering may refer to:*Hunter-gatherer*Hunting and Gathering ...
, including the taking of polar bear

Polar Bear

The polar bear is a bear native to the Arctic Ocean and its surrounding seas. The world's largest carnivore found on land, and shares the title of largest land predator with the Kodiak Bear, an adult male weighs around , while an adult female is about half that size....
s; the practice of hunting polar bears (Ursus maritimus) continues up to the present time.

Yamalia is located in the Yekaterinburg Time Zone

Yekaterinburg Time

Yekaterinburg Time is the time zone 5 hours ahead of UTC and 2 hours ahead of Moscow Time . Yekaterinburg Summer Time is UTC+6, but remains constant as regards Moscow Time ....
(YEKT/YEKST). UTC

Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time is a time standard based on International Atomic Time with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation....
offset is +0500 (YEKT)/+0600 (YEKST).

Administrative divisions

Demographics

Population (2002): 507,006.

Ethnic groups: As oil workers from across Russia far outnumber indigenous people in the region it should come as no surprise that the Nenets

Nenets people

The Nenets people are an List of indigenous peoples of Russia. According to the latest census in 2002, there are 41,302 Nenets in the Russian Federation, most of them living in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Nenets Autonomous Okrug....
only make up 5.2% of the population, preceded by ethnic Russians

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....
(58.8%), Ukrainians

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....
(13%), and Tatars

Tatars

Tatars , sometimes spelled Tartars, refers to a Turkic people ethnic group mainly inhabiting Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Poland....
(5.4%). Other prominent ethnic groups include Belarusians

Belarusians

Belarusians or Belorussians are an East Slavs ethnic group who populate the majority of the Belarus and form minorities in neighboring Poland , Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine....
(1.8%), Khants (1.7%), Azerbaijanis (1.65%), Bashkirs

Bashkirs

The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the republic of Bashkortostan. Some Bashkirs also live in the republic of Tatarstan, as well as in Perm Krai and Chelyabinsk Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Samara Oblast, and Saratov Oblasts of Russia....
(1.56%), Komi

Komi peoples

Komi live in the Komi Republic, Perm Krai, Murmansk Oblast, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Russia. Their Northernmost subgroup is also known as the Komi-Izhemtsy or Iz'vataz....
(1.22%), and Moldova

Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
ns (1.06%). (All figures are from the 2002 census)

	1939 census	1959 census	1970 census	1979 census	1989 census	2002 census
Nenets Nenets people The Nenets people are an List of indigenous peoples of Russia. According to the latest census in 2002, there are 41,302 Nenets in the Russian Federation, most of them living in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Nenets Autonomous Okrug....	13,454 (29.3%)	13,977 (22.4%)	17,538 (21.9%)	17,404 (11.0%)	20,917 (4.2%)	26,435 (5.2%)
Khants	5,367 (11.7%)	5,519 (8.9%)	6,513 (8.1%)	6,466 (4.1%)	7,247 (1.5%)	8,760 (1.7%)
Komi Komi peoples Komi live in the Komi Republic, Perm Krai, Murmansk Oblast, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Russia. Their Northernmost subgroup is also known as the Komi-Izhemtsy or Iz'vataz....	4,722 (10.3%)	4,866 (7.8%)	5,445 (6.8%)	5,642 (3.6%)	6,000 (1.2%)	6,177 (1.2%)
Selkups	87 (0.2%)	1,245 (2.0%)	1,710 (2.1%)	1,611 (1.0%)	1,530 (0.3%)	1,797 (0.4%)
Russians Russians The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....	19,308 (42.1%)	27,789 (44.6%)	37,518 (46.9%)	93,750 (59.0%)	292,808 (59.2%)	298,359 (58.8%)
Ukrainians Ukrainians Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....	395 (0.9%)	1,921 (3.1%)	3,026 (3.8%)	15,721 (9.9%)	85,022 (17.2%)	66,080 (13.0%)
Tatars Tatars Tatars , sometimes spelled Tartars, refers to a Turkic people ethnic group mainly inhabiting Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Poland....	1,636 (3.6%)	3,952 (6.3%)	4,653 (5.8%)	8,556 (5.4%)	26,431 (5.3%)	27,734 (5.5%)
Others	871 (1.9%)	3,065 (4.9%)	3,574 (4.5%)	9,694 (6.1%)	54,889 (11.1%)	71,664 (14.1%)

Vital statistics (2005)

Births: 7,148 (birth rate 13.6)
Deaths: 3,099 (death rate 5.9)

Vital Statistics for 2007: Source

Total fertility rates by federal subjects of Russia

TFR by Federal SubjectsThis is a list of values of total fertility rates by federal subjects of Russia of RussiaThe historical variation in TFR in RF is given in the table below....

Birth Rate: 14.09 per 1000

Death Rate: 5.39 per 1000

Net Immigration: -1.2 per 1000

NGR: +0.87% per Year

PGR: +0.75% per Year

Demographics for 2008 Jan-Sep

For the Okrug.

Raion Raion A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district".... (2008 Jan-Sep)	Pp (2007)	Births	Deaths	Growth	BR	DR	NGR
Yamalo-Nenetsky Okrug	538,600	5,814	2,202	3,612	14.39	5.45	0.89%
Salekhard	40,500	499	256	243	16.43	8.43	0.80%
Gubkinsky	22,300	263	71	192	15.72	4.25	1.15%
Labytnangi	27,700	333	212	121	16.03	10.20	0.58%
Muravlenko	37,000	361	104	257	13.01	3.75	0.93%
Nadym	48,500	443	197	246	12.18	5.42	0.68%
Novy Urengoy	117,000	1122	334	788	12.79	3.81	0.90%
Noyabrsk	109,900	1029	384	645	12.48	4.66	0.78%
Krasnoselkupsky	6,200	99	41	58	21.29	8.82	1.25%
Nadymsky	21,300	221	67	154	13.83	4.19	0.96%
Priuralsky	15,300	179	72	107	15.60	6.27	0.93%
Purovsky	49,900	548	195	353	14.64	5.21	0.94%
Tazovsky	17,200	268	92	176	20.78	7.13	1.36%
Shuryshkarsky	9,900	144	69	75	19.39	9.29	1.01%
Yamalsky	15,900	305	108	197	25.58	9.06	1.65%

History

On December 10, 1930, Yamal (Nenets) National Okrug
Okrug

Okrug is an administrative division of some Eastern European Slavic peoples states. The word "okrug" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "district", or "region"....
was formed based on Ural

Ural

Ural may refer to one of the following:*Ural Mountains*Ural *Ural River*Urals Federal District*Urals economic region*Ural-4320, Ural-375D and Ural-5323, Soviet and Russian military trucks...
Oblast

Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic peoples countries and in some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"....
.

Economy

The area is rich in natural gas

Natural gas

Natural gas is a gas consisting primarily of methane. It is found associated with fossil fuels, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is created by methanogenic organisms in marshes, bogs, and landfills....
; the second largest Russian natural gas company, Novatek

Novatek

Originally known as OAO FIK Novafininvest, OAO Novatek is Russia's largest independent natural gas producer, and second-largest in Russia overall after the Public/State-owned Gazprom....
, has its headquarters in Salekhard.

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Geography and natural history

Administrative divisions

Demographics

Demographics for 2008 Jan-Sep

History

Economy

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