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unusual facts about Yamburg, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug



Communist Party of the Russian Federation

In February 2005 the CPRF managed to beat the ruling pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, in elections to the regional legislature of Nenets Autonomous Okrug, obtaining 27% of the popular vote.

Khanty language

It is spoken in Khanty–Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets autonomous okrugs as well as in Aleksandrovsky and Kargosoksky districts of Tomsk Oblast in Russia.

Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Further plans by Russian railways include the construction of two railways linking settlements in Zapolyarny Municipal District, one, a line running 210 km from Vorkuta, in the Komi Republic, to Ust-Kara in the far east of the district, and another running from Sosnogorsk, also in the Komi Republic, to Indiga in the west of the district.

Priuralsky

Priuralsky District, a district of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia

Tazovsky

Taz Estuary (Tazovskaya guba), a gulf formed by the Taz River in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia

Tazovsky District, a district of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia

Yamal to Its Descendants

Yamal to Its Descendants is an indigenous organisation of the Nenets people, a Samoyedic group of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of northern Russia.

Yamburg, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Yamburg is a company town, and the vast majority of its 5,000–6,000 inhabitants are employees of Gazprom.


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