Numto

{{Short description|Lake in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia}}

{{Infobox body of water

|name = Numto

|other_name = Нумто

|image = Белоярский район.jpeg

|caption = View of the wetland area surrounding lake Numto

|image_bathymetry =Numto ONC D-5.jpg

|caption_bathymetry =Numto lake ONC map section.

|location =Beloyarsky District

|coords ={{coord|63|31|N|71|27|E|region:RU-BU_type:waterbody_scale:5000000|display=inline,title}}

|pushpin_map = Russia Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

|pushpin_map_caption = Location in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia

|lake_type = Thaw lake

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|outflow = Nadym

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|basin_countries = Russia

|length ={{convert|12.5|km|mi}}

|width = {{convert|7.5|km|mi}}

|area = {{convert|62|sqkm|sqmi}}

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|islands = One

|cities =Numto

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Numto ({{langx|ru|Нумто}}) is a freshwater lake in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia.{{cite web|url=https://maps.vlasenko.net/smtm1000/p-41_42.jpg|title=P-41_42 Topographic Chart (in Russian)|access-date=13 June 2022}}Google Earth 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.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.{{cite web |author = |url=https://nashural.ru/mesta/hanty-mansijskij-ao/prirodniy-park-numto/ |title=Наш Урал |lang=ru |website=nashural.ru |date= |access-date=2023-01-13 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113130013/https://nashural.ru/mesta/hanty-mansijskij-ao/prirodniy-park-numto/ |archive-date=2023-01-13 }}

Oil and gas exploration controversy

Numto is a traditional sacred site for the local Khanty people.[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332025074_Caught_between_Traditional_Ways_of_Life_and_Economic_Development_Interactions_between_Indigenous_Peoples_and_an_Oil_Company_in_Numto_Nature_Park 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 {{convert|597189.5|ha}} protected area which was established in 1997 in Beloyarsky District[http://oopt.aari.ru/oopt/%D0%9D%D1%83%D0%BC%D1%82%D0%BE Нумто - ООПТ России] and which is complemented by the Numto Natural Park in adjacent Nadymsky District of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to the north.[https://www.bio-conferences.org/articles/bioconf/pdf/2021/10/bioconf_napd2021_00035.pdf 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.[https://www.slowfood.com/heavenly-lake-numto-western-siberia-threat-big-oil-2/ Heavenly Lake Numto in Western Siberia is Under Threat from Big Oil][https://deeply.thenewhumanitarian.org/arctic/articles/2017/05/09/why-russias-indigenous-people-are-wary-of-national-parks Why Russia’s Indigenous People Are Wary of National Parks][https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Original-zoning-of-the-Numto-Nature-Park-and-overlapping-license-blocks-with-the-disputed_fig2_319894658 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.[http://askural.com/2018/05/life-in-tundra-numto-part-1/ 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.

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|File:Khanty children in front of a reindeer sledge.jpg

|File:Khanty in front of Chum near Lake Numto.jpg near lake Numto.]]

References

External links

[https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Indigenous-Ritual-near-Numto-Lake-in-Siberia-27MZIFJ6FORMT.html Greenpeace - Indigenous Ritual near Numto Lake in Siberia]
[https://ethnomir.ru/articles/numto/ Numto - EthnoMir]

Category:Geography of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

Category:Lakes of Russia

Category:Sacred lakes of Russia

Category:West Siberian Plain