Nenets people

Samoyedic pair of languages

The Nenets (; ), in the past also called 'Samoyeds' or 'Yuraks', are a Samoyedic ethnic group native to the Russian Arctic, in the Russian Far North. According to the latest census in 2021, there were 49,646 Nenets in the Russian Federation, most of them living in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District stretching along the coastline of the Arctic Ocean near the Arctic Circle between Kola and Taymyr peninsulas. The Nenets people speak either the Tundra or Forest Nenets languages. In the Russian Federation they have a status of Indigen

Russian Nenets film director and screenwriter

Russian writer

Soviet and Russian teacher, Nenets linguist, professor (1934—2023)

Nenets Landscape Artist (1886-1960)

Nenets and Khanty poet (1948–2013)