изба Усть-Камчинская
The place
изба Усть-Камчинская ("Ust-Kamchinskaya Cabin") in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Surgut/Khanty-Mansiysk area (Ob-Irtysh basin, Western Siberia, Russia), at a true elevation of ~50 m (0 m listed in error), swampy taiga of the West Siberian plain. Continuous Russia Western Siberia cluster (batches 250-381). Traditional hunter/trapper cabin at the "mouth of the Kamcha", a tributary of the Ob (Kamcha, an Ob tributary, 300 km; plus the Ob, 3,650 km, 4th longest river in Russia, 3rd largest basin in the world, 3 million km², 40% of the continent; plus KMAO oil and gas, 60% of Russia's oil production, 300,000 wells, Samotlor and Priobskoye fields, Rosneft; plus Yugra, the Khanty term for self-designation; plus heritage of the Khanty/Mansi (Finno-Ugric people, 30,000/12,000, Khanty-Mansi language, reindeer herders and fishermen; plus the Bogo-medvezhij bear festival, an annual ceremony; plus traditional Tengrist shamanism; plus the autonomous okrug, established 1930 under the USSR constitution, the 5th, Yugra, 534,000 km²; plus the iconic pre-USSR Siberian heritage of the Yenisei Cossacks, 1584, Yermak Timofeyevich's conquest of Siberia, defeating Khan Kuchum).
The setting
Khanty-Mansi Surgut/Khanty-Mansiysk Ob-Irtysh basin West Siberia Russia elevation 0 m listed in error ~50 m actual swampy taiga West Siberian plain, continuous cluster batches 250-381, hunter/trapper cabin Ust-Kamchinskaya mouth of the Kamcha Ob + Kamcha 300 km Ob tributary + Ob 3,650 km 4th RU 3rd world 3M km² 40% continent + KMAO oil 60% RU 300,000 wells Samotlor Priobskoye Rosneft + Yugra Khanty term, Khanty/Mansi Finno-Ugric 30,000/12,000 Khanty-Mansi reindeer herders/fishermen + Bogo-medvezhij bear ceremony + Tengrist shamanism + AO 1930 USSR 5th Yugra 534,000 km² + Yenisei Cossacks 1584 Yermak Siberia Kuchum.
