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Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Autonomous Okrug
Таймырский автономный округ
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Russia
Federal district	Siberian[1]
Economic region	East Siberian[2]
Capital	Dudinka
Government
• Body	Duma
• Last Governor	Oleg Budargin
Area [3]
• Total	879,929 km2 (339,742 sq mi)
• Rank	7th
Population
• Estimate  (2007)	38,372
Time zone	UTC+7 (MSK+4 [4])
Official languages	Russian[5]

Map of Taymyr

Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russian: Таймы́рский Долга́но-Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky avtonomny okrug; Enets: Таймыр Оша-Дюрак район, Nenets: Таймыр Долганы-Ненэцие район), was a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Krasnoyarsk Krai), the northernmost in Siberian Russia (and thus North Asia). It was named after the Taymyr Peninsula. It was also called Dolgan-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Долгано-Ненецкий автономный округ), by the name of the indigenous people, Dolgans and Nenets.

With an area of 862,100 km² (ranked 4th) and a population of 39,786 (2002 Census), the autonomous okrug was one of the least densely populated areas of Russia as of 2006. Dudinka, with more than half of Taymyr's inhabitants, was the administrative center.

Following a referendum on the issue held on April 17, 2005, Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets and Evenk Autonomous Okrugs were merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai effective January 1, 2007. Taymyr was given a special status within Krasnoyarsk Krai and incorporated as Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District.

Administrative divisions

Landscape of Taymyr

Indigenous people of Taymyr

The city of Norilsk, even though it is geographically located within Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, was administratively subordinated directly to Krasnoyarsk Krai prior to the merger. This also applied to the urban-type settlement of Snezhnogorsk, which was administratively subordinated to Norilsk. Therefore, the okrug's population reported by the Census authorities does not include the populations of Norilsk and Snezhnogorsk.

In popular culture

Although not actually having been filmed in Taymyr, it is depicted in the 1985 film White Nights, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines. During the opening moments of the film, Baryshnikov's character Nikolai Rodchenko - a Soviet defector - is on a passenger plane that crash lands at "Norilsk Air Base." He later is taken into the home of Hines' character - a US defector - and his wife (played by Isabella Rossellini), where they advise him that he is in Taymyr upon regaining consciousness.

Taymyr is featured in 2020 simulation video game SnowRunner as the third playable region of the game.

Demographics

Ethnic groups

Nganasans form one of the indigenous peoples of the Taymyr.

Of the 39,786 residents (as of the 2002 census) 1,018 (2.6%) chose not to specify their ethnic background. A quarter of the population identified themselves as indigenous Siberians (Dolgans, Nenets, Nganasans, Evenks, or Enets). 58.6% of the population were ethnic Russians. Other nationalities included 2,423 Ukrainians (6.1%), 587 Volga Germans (1.5%), 425 Volga Tatars (1.1%), 294 Belarusians (0.7%) and 239 Azeris (0.6%)

Ethnic group	1939 Census		1959 Census		1970 Census		1979 Census		1989 Census		2002 Census		2010 Census
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Dolgans1	3,971	13.8%	3,934	11.8%	4,344	11.4%	4,338	9.7%	4,939	8.9%	5,517	13.9%	5,393	15.7%
Nenets	2,523	8.8%	1,878	5.6%	2,247	5.9%	2,345	5.2%	2,446	4.4%	3,054	7.7%	3,494	10.2%
Enets2									103	0.2%	197	0.5%	204	0.6%
Nganasans3			682	2.0%	765	2.0%	746	1.7%	849	1.5%	766	1.9%	747	2.2%
Evenks	563	2.0%	412	1.2%	413	1.1%	338	0.8%	311	0.6%	305	0.8%	266	0.8%
Russians	16,931	59.0%	21,799	65.3%	25,465	66.9%	30,640	68.2%	37,438	67.1%	23,348	58.6%
Others	4,723	16.5%	4,677	14.0%	4,826	12.7%	6,546	14.6%	9,717	17.4%	6,629	16.7%	24,328	70.5%
Notes: In the 1939 and 1959 census Dolgans were counted as Yakuts. In the 1939, 1959, 1970 and 1979 census Enets were counted as Nenets. In the 1939 census Nganasans were counted as Nenets.

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