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The Nenets are the most numerous of the five Samoyed groups living in the Russian north and western Siberia. Their traditional subsistence rested on a combination of reindeer herding, big game hunting and fishing in a vast region that included forest tundra and arctic islands. They lived as members of autonomous small bands that moved seasonally to exploit different resources. The Nenets have continued to hold onto their traditional way of life, despite their increasing incorporation into the Russian state and the deleterious effects of mineral and oil exploitation in the region on traditional reindeer herding practices.

A Russian province of the north

Siberian survival

Indigenous leadership in northwestern Siberia

The Samoyed of Mezen

The Samoyed in their domestic and social life

Culture Summary

Sketch of a mythology of the Yurak Samoyed

Hunting among the Yurak Samoyed

Property rights and transformation in Russia

The Nentsy

Customs of the natives of Tobolsk Province

Resources and spatial analysis at actual Nenets campsites

Nenets reindeer herding and industrial exploitation in northwest Russia

The forest Nenets

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Engelhardt, Aleksandr Platonovich	A Russian province of the north	1899
Golovnev, A. V. (Andreĭ Vladimirovich)	Siberian survival	1999
Golovnev, A. V. (Andreĭ Vladimirovich)	Indigenous leadership in northwestern Siberia	1997
Innokentii, Saint, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna	The Samoyed of Mezen	1855
Islavin, Vladimīr	The Samoyed in their domestic and social life	1847
Janhunen, Juha	Culture Summary	2012
Lehtisalo, Toivo	Sketch of a mythology of the Yurak Samoyed	1924
Lehtisalo, Toivo	Hunting among the Yurak Samoyed	1918
Osherenko, Gail	Property rights and transformation in Russia	1995
Prokofʹeva, E. D. (Ekaterina Dmitrievna)	The Nentsy	1964
Samokvasov, D. (Dmitriĭ)	Customs of the natives of Tobolsk Province	1876
Svoboda, Jiří	Resources and spatial analysis at actual Nenets campsites	2011
Tuisku, Tuula	Nenets reindeer herding and industrial exploitation in northwest Russia	2002
Verbov, G. D.	The forest Nenets	1936

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