Numto

Numto
Нумто
View of the wetland area surrounding lake Numto
Numto Location in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Numto lake ONC map section.
Location	Beloyarsky District
Coordinates	63°31′N 71°27′E
Lake type	Thaw lake
Primary outflows	Nadym
Basin countries	Russia
Max. length	12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi)
Max. width	7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi)
Surface area	62 square kilometres (24 sq mi)
Islands	One
Settlements	Numto

Numto (Russian: Нумто) is a freshwater lake in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia.^[1][2] The village of Numto, part of the Kazym rural settlement, is located at the southwestern of the lake by its shore. Historically it was the place where the Kazym rebellion flared up in the early 1930s.^[3]

Oil and gas exploration controversy

Numto is a traditional sacred site for the local Khanty people.^[4] The lake is part of an integrated 597,189.5 hectares (1,475,687 acres) protected area which was established in 1997 in Beloyarsky District^[5] and which is complemented by the Numto Natural Park in adjacent Nadymsky District of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to the north.^[6] The area, however is under threat from oil and gas drilling operations.^[7][8][9]

Geography

Numto is a lake of thermokarst origin located in an area of numerous smaller lakes of the Siberian Uvaly. It has a roughly semicircular shape. There is a small heart-shaped island near the western end of the lake that is a sacred place in local shamanism.^[10]

The lake is located in the Beloyarsky District, at the northern limit of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, near the border of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The area of the lake is covered with sparse larch taiga and swamps.^[2][1]

Khanty children and reindeer sledge by lake Numto.

Khanty group in front of a chum near lake Numto.

See also

• Association to Save Yugra
• List of lakes of Russia
• Petroleum exploration in the Arctic

References

1. "P-41_42 Topographic Chart (in Russian)". Retrieved 13 June 2022.
2. Google Earth
3. Pimanov A.S., Piyukov A.N. Unrest of the indigenous population in Kazym in 1930-1933 // Yearbook of the Tyumen Regional Museum of Local Lore. 1998. - Tyumen, 1994.
4. Caught between Traditional Ways of Life and Economic Development: Interactions between Indigenous Peoples and an Oil Company in Numto Nature Park
5. Нумто - ООПТ России
6. Data on the creation of new protected areas in the Nadym district of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
7. Heavenly Lake Numto in Western Siberia is Under Threat from Big Oil
8. Why Russia’s Indigenous People Are Wary of National Parks
9. Original zoning of the Numto Nature Park
10. Life in Tundra. Numto Nature Park. Part I

External links

• Greenpeace - Indigenous Ritual near Numto Lake in Siberia
• Numto - EthnoMir