Yamalia

Yamalia (Yamalo-Nenets, Ямало-Ненецкий автономный округ) is an autonomous district of Tyumen Oblast in the Russian Federation. It is the largest administrative division of Tyumen with an area 750,300 km² but is also the most sparsely populated with only around 550,000 inhabitants. The administrative center is Salekhard (pop. ~35,000), and the largest city by population is Noyabrsk (pop. ~ 100,000).

Administrative Division

Districts

Yamalia Autonomous District consists of the following districts (Russian: районы):

• Kransoselkupsky (Красноселькупский)
• Nadymsky (Надымский)
• Priuralsky (Приуральский)
• Purovsky (Пуровский)
• Shuryshkarsky (Шурышкарский)
• Tazovsky (Тазовский)
• Yamalsky (Ямальский)

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 Nenetses, at 26,435, only make up 5.2% of the population, preceeded by Tatars at 27,734 (5.4%), Ukrainians at 66,080 (13%) and ethnic Russians at 298,359 (58.8%). Other prominent ethnic groups include Belarusians (8,989 or 1.77%), Khants (8,760 or 1.72%), Azerbaijanis (8,353 or 1.65%), Bashkirs (7,932 or 1.56%), Komis (6,177 or 1.22%), Moldovans (5,400 or 1.06%) and so on. (all figures as per the 2002 census)

History

On December 10, 1930, Yamal (Nenets) National Okrug (Ямальский (Ненецкий) национальный округ) was formed based on Ural Oblast.

External link

• Yamalo-Nenetsa's flag