Numto (russian: Нумто) is a freshwater lake in

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra ( Russian and Mansi: Ханты-Мансийский автономный округ — Югра, ''Khanty-Mansiysky avtonomny okrug — Yugra;'' Khanty: Хӑнты-Мансийской Aвтономно� ...

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. Google Earth The village of Numto, part of the Kazym rural settlement, is located at the southwestern of the lake by its shore. Historically it was the place where the Kazym rebellion flared up in the early 1930s.

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Numto is a traditional sacred site for the local

Khanty people The Khanty ( Khanty: ханти, ''hanti''), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (russian: остяки) are a Ugric indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as " Yugra" in Russia, toget ...

. The lake is part of an integrated

protected area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...

which was established in 1997 in Beloyarsky District and which is complemented by the Numto Natural Park in adjacent

Nadymsky District Nadymsky District (russian: Нады́мский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #42-ZAO and municipalLaw #111-ZAO district ( raion), one of the seven in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is located in the centr ...

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO; russian: Яма́ло-Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг (ЯНАО), ; yrk, Ямалы-Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, ) or Yamalia (russian: Ямалия) is a fe ...

to the north. The area, however is under threat from oil and gas drilling operations.

Geography

Numto is a lake of

thermokarst Thermokarst is a type of terrain characterised by very irregular surfaces of marshy hollows and small hummocks formed as ice-rich permafrost thaws. The land surface type occurs in Arctic areas, and on a smaller scale in mountainous areas such as ...

origin located in an area of numerous smaller lakes of the Siberian Uvaly. It has a roughly semicircular shape. There is a small heart-shaped island near the western end of the lake that is a sacred place in local shamanism.Life in Tundra. Numto Nature Park. Part I
/ref> The lake is located in the

Beloyarsky District Beloyarsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia. *Beloyarsky District, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, an administrative and municipal district of Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra *Beloyarsky D ...

, at the northern limit of the

, near the border of

. The area of the lake is covered with sparse

larch Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains furt ...

taiga Taiga (; rus, тайга́, p=tɐjˈɡa; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as a boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces ...

and swamps.

References

External links

Greenpeace - Indigenous Ritual near Numto Lake in SiberiaNumto - EthnoMir
Geography of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Lakes of Russia Sacred lakes West Siberian Plain {{KhantyMansiAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub

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Geography

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