Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra,^{[lower-alpha 1]} also known as Khantia-Mansia (Russian: Хантия-Мансия), 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.^[4] Its administrative center is located at Khanty-Mansiysk.

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra
Autonomous okrug
Ханты-Мансийский автономный округ — Югра
Other transcription(s)
• Khanty	Хӑнты-Мансийской Aвтономной Округ
• Mansi	Ханты-Мансийский Aвтономный Oкруг
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: Anthem of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Coordinates: 62°15′N 70°10′E
Country	Russia
Federal district	Urals[1]
Economic region	West Siberian[2]
Administrative center	Khanty-Mansiysk
Government
• Body	Duma
• Governor	Ruslan Kukharuk
Area [3]
• Total	534,801 km2 (206,488 sq mi)
• Rank	9th
Population  (2021 census)[4]
• Total	1,711,480
• Rank	27th
• Density	3.2/km2 (8.3/sq mi)
• Urban	92.0%
• Rural	8.0%
Time zone	UTC+5 (MSK+2 [5])
ISO 3166 code	RU-KHM
License plates	86, 186
OKTMO ID	71800000
Official languages	Russian[6]
Recognised languages	Khanty • Mansi[citation needed]
Website	http://www.admhmao.ru/

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. Russian remains the only official language.

In 2012, the majority (51%)^[7] of the oil produced in Russia came from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, giving the region great economic importance in Russia and the world. It borders Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to the north, Komi Republic to the northwest, Sverdlovsk Oblast to the west, Tyumen Oblast to the south, Tomsk Oblast to the south and southeast and Krasnoyarsk Krai in the east.

History

The okrug was established on December 10, 1930, as Ostyak-Vogul National Okrug (Остя́ко-Вогу́льский национа́льный о́круг). In October 1940, it was renamed the Khanty-Mansi National Okrug. In 1977, along with other national okrugs of the Russian SFSR, it became an autonomous okrug (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug). In 2003, the word "Yugra" was appended to the official name.^[8]

Geography

Map of Khantia-Mansia

The okrug occupies the central part of the West Siberian Plain.

Principal rivers include the Ob and its tributaries Irtysh and Vatinsky Yogan. There are numerous lakes in the okrug, the largest ones are Numto, Tormemtor, Leushinsky Tuman and Tursuntsky Tuman, among others.^[9]

The northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude traverses the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.

Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

Demographics

Population: 1,674,676 (2020);^[10] 1,532,243 (2010 Census);^[4] 1,432,817 (2002 Census);^[11] 1,268,439 (1989 Soviet census).^[12]

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug has an area of 523,100 km², but the area is sparsely populated. The administrative center is Khanty-Mansiysk, but the largest cities are Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk, and Nefteyugansk.

Settlements

Largest cities or towns in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug 2010 Russian Census
	Rank		Administrative Division	Pop.
Surgut Nizhnevartovsk	1	Surgut	City of okrug significance of Surgut	380,632
	2	Nizhnevartovsk	City of okrug significance of Nizhnevartovsk	277,668
	3	Nefteyugansk	City of okrug significance of Nefteyugansk	127,255
	4	Khanty-Mansiysk	Town of okrug significance of Khanty-Mansiysk	101,466
	5	Kogalym	Town of okrug significance of Kogalym	67,727
	6	Nyagan	Town of okrug significance of Nyagan	58,565
	7	Megion	Town of okrug significance of Megion	46,643
	8	Langepas	Town of okrug significance of Langepas	44,646
	9	Raduzhny	Town of okrug significance of Raduzhny	43,666
	10	Pyt-Yakh	Town of okrug significance of Pyt-Yakh	39,570

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1939	92,932	—
1959	123,926	+33.4%
1970	271,157	+118.8%
1979	569,139	+109.9%
1989	1,268,439	+122.9%
2002	1,432,817	+13.0%
2010	1,532,243	+6.9%
2021	1,711,480	+11.7%
Source: Census data

Ethnic groups

The Indigenous population (Khanty, Mansi, Komi, and Nenets) is only 2.8% of the total population in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. The exploitation of natural gas in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug has attracted immigrants from all over the former Soviet Union. The 2021 Census counted 17 ethnic groups of more than five thousand persons each. The ethnic composition is as follows:

Population of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug:^[13]

Ethnic Group	Population	%
Russian	888,660	70.3%
Tatar	79,727	6.3%
Ukrainian	41,596	3.3%
Bashkir	29,717	2.4%
Tajik	21,791	1.7%
Azeri	21,259	1.7%
Khanty	19,568	1.5%
Lezgin	15,268	1.2%
Kumyk	13,669	1.1%
Uzbek	12,361	1.0%
Mansi	11,065	0.9%
Nogai	9,990	0.8%
Chuvash	7,786	0.6%
Chechen	7,085	0.6%
Belarusian	6,156	0.5%
Kyrgyz	5,562	0.4%
Moldovan	5,297	0.4%
Other	48,194	3.8%

Historical population figures are shown below:

Ethnic group	1939 Census		1959 Census		1970 Census		1979 Census		1989 Census		2002 Census		2010 Census1		2021 Census
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Khanty	12,238	13.1%	11,435	9.2%	12,222	4.5%	11,219	2.0%	11,892	0.9%	17,128	1.2%	19,068	1.3%	19,568	1.6%
Mansi	5,768	6.2%	5,644	4.6%	6,684	2.5%	6,156	1.1%	6,562	0.5%	9,894	0.7%	10,977	0.8%	11,065	0.9%
Nenets	852	0.9%	815	0.7%	940	0.3%	1,003	0.2%	1,144	0.1%	1,290	0.1%	1,438	0.1%	1,381	0.1%
Komi	2,436	2.6%	2,803	2.3%	3,150	1.2%	3,105	0.5%	3,000	0.2%	3,081	0.2%	2,364	0.2%	2,618	0.2%
Russians	67,616	72.5%	89,813	72.5%	208,500	76.9%	423,792	74.3%	850,297	66.3%	946,590	66.1%	973,978	68.1%	888,660	70.3%
Ukrainians	1,111	1.2%	4,363	3.5%	9,986	3.7%	45,484	8.0%	148,317	11.6%	123,238	8.6%	91,323	6.4%	41,596	3.3%
Tatars	2,227	2.4%	2,938	2.4%	14,046	5.2%	36,898	6.5%	97,689	7.6%	107,637	7.5%	108,899	7.6%	79,727	6.3%
Others	1,026	1.1%	6,115	4.9%	15,629	5.8%	43,106	7.6%	163,495	12.7%	223,959	15.6%	173,536	15.5%	219,465	17.3%
1 102,138 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.[14]

Vital statistics

Life expectancy at birth in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

Source:^[15]

	Average population (× 1000)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1000)	Crude death rate (per 1000)	Natural change (per 1000)	Fertility rates
1970	281	5 959	2 025	3 934	21.2	7.2	14.0
1975	415	9 450	2 572	6 878	22.8	6.2	16.6
1980	649	13 901	4 116	9 785	21.4	6.3	15.1
1985	1 041	25 130	4 863	20 267	24.1	4.7	19.5
1990	1 274	21 812	5 354	16 458	17.1	4.2	12.9
1991	1 276	19 060	5 884	13 176	14.9	4.6	10.3
1992	1 270	15 849	7 132	8 717	12.5	5.6	6.9
1993	1 274	14 531	9 401	5 130	11.4	7.4	4.0	1,59
1994	1 286	15 120	9 937	5 183	11.8	7.7	4.0	1,59
1995	1 298	14 418	10 041	4 377	11.1	7.7	3.4	1,46
1996	1 310	14 469	9 508	4 961	11.0	7.3	3.8	1,39
1997	1 330	14 640	8 497	6 143	11.0	6.4	4.6	1,34
1998	1 351	15 600	8 164	7 436	11.5	6.0	5.5	1,39
1999	1 359	14 728	8 476	6 252	10.8	6.2	4.6	1,29
2000	1 372	15 579	9 426	6 153	11.4	6.9	4.5	1,34
2001	1 398	17 130	9 863	7 267	12.3	7.1	5.2	1,43
2002	1 426	19 051	9 829	9 222	13.4	6.9	6.5	1,54
2003	1 445	19 883	10 000	9 883	13.8	6.9	6.8	1,58
2004	1 456	20 377	9 828	10 549	14.0	6.8	7.2	1,59
2005	1 466	19 958	10 415	9 543	13.6	7.1	6.5	1,54
2006	1 476	20 366	10 077	10 289	13.8	6.8	7.0	1,56
2007	1 487	21 887	10 093	11 794	14.7	6.8	7.9	1,66
2008	1 500	23 197	10 215	12 982	15.5	6.8	8.7	1,74
2009	1 513	23 840	10 107	13 733	15.8	6.7	9.1	1,77
2010	1 527	25 089	10 447	14 642	16.4	6.8	9.6	1,84
2011	1 543	25 335	10 072	14 642	16.4	6.5	9.9	1,86
2012	1 558	27 686	9 949	17 737	17.6	6.3	11.3	2,02

Religion

Orthodox Church of the Resurrection in Khanty-Mansiysk. Orthodox Christianity is the main religion in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.

Religion in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug as of 2012 (Sreda Arena Atlas)[16][17]
Russian Orthodoxy			38.1%
Other Christians			5.5%
Islam			11%
Rodnovery and other native faiths			0.9%
Spiritual but not religious			23.1%
Atheism and irreligion			11%
Other and undeclared			10.4%

According to a 2012 survey^[16] 38.1% of the population of Yugra adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 5% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1% of the population adheres to the Slavic native faith (Rodnovery) or to Khanty-Mansi native faith. Muslims (mostly Tatars) constitute 11% of the population. In addition, 23% of the population declares to be spiritual but not religious, 11% is atheist, and 10.9% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.^[16] According to recent reports Jehovah's Witnesses have been subjected to torture and detention in Surgut.^[18]

Transport

In Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the primary transport of goods is by water and railway transport; 29% is transported by road, and 2% by aviation. The total length of railway tracks is 1,106 km. The length of roads is more than 18,000 km.

See also

• Siberia portal

• Hockey Club Ugra
• List of Chairmen of the Duma of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

References

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External links

• Official website of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra Archived June 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
• Official site of Khanty-Mansi Duma (in Russian)
• Informational website of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra (in Russian)