Numto () is a freshwater lake in

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra, also known as Khanty-Mansia (Khantia-Mansia), is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast). It has a population of 1,532,243 as of the 2010 Census. Its administrative center is lo ...

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The village of

Numto Numto () is a freshwater lake in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia.Google Earth The village of Numto, Beloyarsky District, Numto, part of the Kazym rural settlement, is located at the southwestern of the lake by its Coast, shore. Historically ...

, part of the Kazym rural settlement, is located at the southwestern of the

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

by its

shore A coast (coastline, shoreline, seashore) is the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake. Coasts are influenced by the topography of the surrounding landscape and by aquatic erosion, su ...

. Historically it was the place where the

Kazym rebellion The Kazym Rebellion () was a revolt by the Khanty people, Khanty people of western Siberia against the collectivisation policies of the Soviet Union, Soviet government in 1933. The revolt was named after the small town of Kazym in the Khanty-Mansi ...

flared up in the early

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Etymology

The name of the lake comes from Num-To, which in the language of the

Khanty The Khanty (), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (), are a Ugric Indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as " Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the K ...

means ''the lake of God''.

Oil and gas exploration controversy

Numto is a traditional sacred site for the local

Khanty people The Khanty (), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (), are a Ob-Ugric languages, Ugric Indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi people, Mansi. I ...

. The lake is part of an integrated

protected area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...

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

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (; ) also known as Yamalia () is a federal subject of Russia and an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast. Its administrative center is the town of Salekhard, and its largest city is Novy Urengoy. The 2021 Russian ...

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 when ice-rich permafrost thaws. The land surface type occurs in Arctic areas, and on a smaller scale in mountainous areas such ...

origin located in an area of numerous smaller lakes of the

Siberian Uvaly Siberian Uvaly () is a hilly region in the central part of the West Siberian Plain, Russia. A sector of the hills is a protected area under the name Upper Taz Nature Reserve, which was established in December 1986. The area is sparsely populate ...

. 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, 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 the cooler regions of the northern hemisphere, where they are found in lowland forests in the high la ...

taiga Taiga or tayga ( ; , ), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. The taiga, or boreal forest, is the world's largest land biome. In North A ...

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 of Russia West Siberian Plain {{KhantyMansiAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub

Etymology

Oil and gas exploration controversy

Geography

See also

References

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