Refuge

изба Зимняя Речка

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The place

изба Зимняя Речка ("Winter River Cabin") in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Sovietsky/Yugorsk area (Ob basin, western Siberia, Russia), at true elevation ~50 m (listed 0 m is erroneous), marshy taiga on the west-Siberian plain. Continuous Russia western Siberia cluster (batches 250-385, 4 listings). Traditional hunter/trapper cabin "Winter River" (Zimnyaya Rechka, a river frozen 6 months of the year + Ob River 3650 km, 4th longest in Russia, 3rd largest basin in the world at 3 M km², 40% of the continent + KMAO oil and gas 60% of Russian oil production 300,000 wells Samotlor Priobskoye Rosneft + Yugra, the Khanty term for self-designation + heritage of the Khanty/Mansi peoples (Finno-Ugric peoples 30,000/12,000 Khanty-Mansi language, reindeer herders and fishermen + Bogo-medvezhij bear festival ceremony + traditional tengri shamanism + autonomous okrug founded 1930 USSR constitution 5th Yugra AO 534,000 km²).

The setting

Khanty-Mansi Sovietsky/Yugorsk Ob basin western Siberia Russia elevation listed 0 m erroneous ~50 m actual marshy taiga plain, continuous cluster batches 250-385 4 listings, hunter/trapper cabin Zimnyaya Rechka river frozen 6 months + Ob 3650 km 4th RU 3rd world 3 M km² 40% + KMAO oil 60% RU 300,000 wells Samotlor Priobskoye Rosneft + Yugra khanty term, Khanty/Mansi Finno-Ugric 30,000/12,000 reindeer/fishing + Bogo-medvezhij bear festival + tengri shamanism + AO founded 1930 USSR 5th Yugra 534,000 km².