By the 1960s the majority of nenets children were being schooled. In the 1930s the soviet government began forcibly taking nenets children from their parents and educating them in boarding schools. With the nenets of the yamal peninsula however the situation is a little different.
Locals nenets and khanty are occupied by reindeer herding and fishing. Forests grow only in the south of the region. The landscape of yamal is mainly tundra and marshes.
The yamal peninsula is a part of the yamal nenets autonomous district lying on both sides of the ob river in its widest part just before flowing into the kara sea. See this website s trip types page for costs and itineraries or read on for a brief introduction a. Trips to the yamal peninsula nenets on the yamal peninsula in the western siberian arctic large scale nomadic reindeer herding along with the indigenous language religious beliefs traditional clothing and culture of the nomads has been better preserved than anywhere else in the world.
The ob river flows through yamalo nenets autonomous okrug to the kara sea via the gulf of ob which dominates the geography of the okrug together. The area consists of arctic tundra and taiga with three large peninsulas the yamal peninsula taz peninsula and the gyda peninsula itself containing the yavay peninsula and mamonta peninsula. Held annually in different cities and villages of yamal the festival usually takes place on the last saturday of march in salekhard and the 1 st saturday of april in aksarka village.
This is the time when the nomadic nenets from across the yamal peninsula travel in their family groups to celebrate the one day reindeer herder s festival. At the northern end of this peninsula lie the malygina strait and beyond it bely island. полуо стров яма л is located in the yamalo nenets autonomous okrug of northwest siberia russia it extends roughly 700 km 435 mi and is bordered principally by the kara sea baydaratskaya bay on the west and by the gulf of ob on the east.
The yamal peninsula russian.
