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The peoples native to the region are the Khanty and the Mansi, known collectively as Ob-Ugric peoples, but today the two groups only constitute 2.5% of the region's population. The local languages, Khanty and Mansi, are part of the Ugric branch of the Finno-Ugric language family, and enjoy a special status in the autonomous okrug.
Khanty-Mansiysk is a hyphenated word combining the names of two Russian indigenous peoples local to the region, the Khanty and the Mansi, ending in "-sk" as is typical for the names of Russian towns, which means city. Before 1940, the settlement's name was Ostyako-Vogulsk, as these tribes were previously known as the Ostyaks and the Voguls ...
The Khanty (Khanty: ханти, romanized: 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, together with the Mansi.
The Mansi people were formerly known as the Voguls. [5] Together with the Khanty people, the Mansi are politically represented by the Association to Save Yugra, an organisation founded during Perestroika in the late 1980s. This organisation was among the first regional indigenous associations in Russia.
Khanty-Mansiysky District (Russian: Ха́нты-Манси́йский райо́н) is an administrative [1] and municipal [4] district , one of the nine in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is located in the center of the autonomous okrug. The area of the district is 46,400 square kilometers (17,900 sq mi). [2]
Autonomous okrugs (Russian: автономный округ, romanized: avtonomnyy okrug; more correctly referred to as "autonomous districts" or "autonomous areas") are a type of federal subject of the Russian Federation and simultaneously an administrative division type of some federal subjects.
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia: Administrative center: Khanty-Mansiysk As of 2013: [1] Number of districts (районы) 9 Number of cities/towns (города) 16 Number of urban-type settlements
Beryozovo (Russian: Берёзово; Khanty: Сўмт вош, Sŭmt-voš; Mansi: Ха̄льӯс, Hāļūs) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Beryozovsky District of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Ob River.