
Khanty People ED PROKOF'YEVA, ED, CHERNETSOV, N. and PRYTKOVA NF The Khanty and Mansi. FORSYTH JAJ A History of the Peoples of Siberia. Russia's North Asian Colony. CUP 1992. Kretzmann, S. & Wright, S. 1998 - Drilling to the ends of the earth./Survival International. Rainforest Action Network.1998. Lukina NV & VMKulemsin. . Tomsk State University. 1970. The present-day territory of residence of Khanty lies to the east of the Ural Range along the Ob' and its tributaries. This territory is mainly covered by vast swamps, numerous rivers and lakes, richly forested. During the Bronze and Early Iron Ages, forest-steppes of Western Siberia were inhabited by nomadic groups, horse-breeders. These nomads are considered the early Ugrian tribes. The horse-breeders and hunter-fishermen from the North contacted closely. From these wooded steppes the Magyars left in the ninth century AD to Central Europe and founded the Hungarian nation. Other Ugric ethnoses moving north changed the culture and lifestyles into hunting, fishing and rain-deer breeding. First in the XV century - the Great Novgorod republic and later in the XVI century the Moscovite state had already encroached upon Finno-Ugrian peoples of the west of Ural, founded outlying trade towns and established nominal suzerainty over Khanty and Samoyed inhabitants of the region around the mouth of the Ob. Khanty, who may have numbered, together with Mansi, about 16000 at a time when the population of Moscovite Russia was perhaps <b>...</b>
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