Numto () is a freshwater lake in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia.[Google Earth] The village of Numto, part of the Kazym rural settlement, is located at the southwestern of the lake by its Coast. Historically it was the place where the Kazym rebellion flared up in the early 1930s.[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.]
Etymology
The name of the lake comes from Num-To, which in the language of the
Khanty means
the lake of God.
Oil and gas exploration controversy
Numto is a traditional sacred site for the local
Khanty people.
[ Caught between Traditional Ways of Life and Economic Development: Interactions between Indigenous Peoples and an Oil Company in Numto Nature Park] The lake is part of an integrated
protected area which was established in 1997 in Beloyarsky District
[ Нумто - ООПТ России] and which is complemented by the Numto Natural Park in adjacent Nadymsky District of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to the north.
[ Data on the creation of new protected areas in the Nadym district of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug] The area, however is under threat from oil and gas drilling operations.
[ Heavenly Lake Numto in Western Siberia is Under Threat from Big Oil][ Why Russia’s Indigenous People Are Wary of National Parks][ Original zoning of the Numto Nature Park]
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.
[ Life in Tundra. Numto Nature Park. Part I]
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.
See also
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Association to Save Yugra
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List of lakes of Russia
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Petroleum exploration in the Arctic
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