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In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
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Obdorsk fort was one of the northernmost outposts on the way of the Russians to the shores of the Arctic and Pacific oceans.
The first Obdorsk church was built in 1602 'with the maintenance of the approved in princedom by tsar Boris Godunov newly proselytized prince of Obdorsk Vasily' in the honor of his saint, Vasily, the archbishop of Caesarea Cappadocia, known in Christian history by the name of Vasily the Great.
In 1731 according to an Anna Ioannovna's decree, Obdorsk was reconstructed - a new wooden fort was erected.
adm.yanao.ru /127   (3999 words)

  
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Obdorsk burg (now Salekhard) is one of the first Russian settlements founded on the territory of Siberia.
Famous researcher of Tobolsk land history A.A. Dunin-Gorkavich wrote: “Foundation of Obdorsk was caused by the necessity of protection from foreign raids and preclusion of duty free and forbidden exchanges between coast-dwellers and Samoyeds.
From the beginning of the XIX century Obdorsk was home to a big winter fair that took place from the 15th of December to the 25th of January.
www.ikz.ru /siberianway/engl/salekhard/index.html   (800 words)

  
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Obdorsk fort was one of the northernmost outposts on the way of the Russians to the shores of the Arctic and Pacific oceans.
The first Obdorsk church was built in 1602 'with the maintenance of the approved in princedom by tsar Boris Godunov newly proselytized prince of Obdorsk Vasily' in the honor of his saint, Vasily, the archbishop of Caesarea Cappadocia, known in Christian history by the name of Vasily the Great.
In 1731 according to an Anna Ioannovna's decree, Obdorsk was reconstructed - a new wooden fort was erected.
www.adm.yanao.ru /127   (3999 words)

  
 Obdorsk - Encyclopedia.com
The Obdorsk branch of the missionary Brotherhood of...
The prisoners were bound for Obdorsk, but at a place called Berezov in Ostyak territory close to...
Trotsky's account of his journey, in 1907, from Berezov to the Urals, after his escape from a convoy of prisoners heading for Obdorsk, provides little of the sort of factual data found in Rommel's carnets, but focuses rather on his impressions of the extraordinary...
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-Obdorsk.html   (237 words)

  
 The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The western dialect group consists of a) the Obdorsk dialect, b) the dialect on the River Ob and c) the dialect on the River Irtysh; the eastern dialect group is divided into a) Surgut and b) Vakh-Vasyugan dialects.
Primers initiated by clerics were published in 1897 in the Obdorsk dialect (the author being I. Yegorob) and in 1903, in the Vakh dialect (F. Tveritin).
New primers appeared (P. Khatanzeyev's Hanti kniga in the Obdorsk dialect in 1931; in 1933 Hant bukvar in the Kazym dialect) and thereafter the Kazym dialect became the basis of the written language.
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/khants.shtml   (2288 words)

  
 THE NENETS
In connexion with this, there were attempts to educate Nenets youth at the Bolshaya Zemlya, Kanin and Timan parochial schools.
In 1846, a clergyman named Popov established a school in Obdorsk (now Salekhard) where some Samoyeds studied alongside Russians.
No missionaries, however, came of the Nenets themselves and literacy gained no ground.
www.samoyed.org /nenets.html   (2468 words)

  
 Agency on tourism of Yamal-Nenets autonomous region - Pages of History   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1595 one of cossack groups has constructed strengthening under name Obdorsk (today it is capital of Yamal-Nenets autonomous region – Salekhard).
Obdorsk long remained last Russian settlement on the North.
On June, 20th, 1933 the village Obdorsk is renamed into settlement Salekhard, and its Village Soviet has been reorganized in settlement.
www.yamaltour.ru /en/hystory.php   (1007 words)

  
 Salekhard   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Its role in those days was as a trading station, its furs and fish supplies attracting merchants from as far away as Tobol'sk and Omsk.
In 1930 Obdorsk became the administrative centre of the newly established YNAO.
In 1933 it was renamed Salekhard and in 1938 it received town status.
www.geocities.com /benselig/pic3sal.html   (271 words)

  
 Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area - Kommersant Moscow
The capital is the city of Salekhard (formerly known as Obdorsk), which celebrated its 400th anniversary in 1995.
The fortress was called Obdorsk, and at the time it was the northernmost fortress in Siberia.
The Yamalo-Nenets National Area, with its center in Obdorsk (later Salekhard), was formed in December 1930 by a resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK).
www.kommersant.com /p-30/r_373/Yamalo-Nenets_Autonomous_Area   (3131 words)

  
 Ostiaks - LoveToKnow 1911
The best investigators (Castren, Lerberg, A. Schrenck) consider the trans-Uralian Ostiaks and Samoyedes as identical with the Yugra of the Russian annals.
During the Russian conquest their abodes extended much farther south than now, forty-one of their fortified places having been destroyed by the Cossacks in 1501, in the region of Obdorsk alone.
Remains of these "towns" are still to be seen at the Kunovat river, on the Ob 20 m.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ostiaks   (592 words)

  
 Salekhard at AllExperts
A settlement of Obdorsk () was founded in 1595 in the place of a khant settlement Polnovat-Vozh () by Russian settlers who followed the conquering of Siberia by Yermak Timofeyevich.
It was situated by the Ob River, and its name supposedly derives from that.
The land around Obdorsk was referred to as Obdorsky krai, or Obdoriya in the full address of Russian tsars.
en.allexperts.com /e/s/sa/salekhard.htm   (221 words)

  
 Obdorsk: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
The prisoners were bound for Obdorsk, but at a place called Berezov in Ostyak territory close to...for treatment in the local hospital before being sent on to Obdorsk.
It is a river port and has fish canneries, lumber mills, and shipyards.
Founded as Obdorsk in 1595, the city was renamed in 1930.
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/obdorsk.jsp?l=O&p=1   (351 words)

  
 Leon Trotsky: 1905 (Chapter 32)
It is curious to note that the “equality” which found expression in the verdict has also affected the choice of the place of exile: all of us are going to the same destination.
Perhaps the year we shall be obliged to spend in Obdorsk will be the last revolutionary breathing-space history will ever grant us to fill the gaps in our knowledge and sharpen our weapons still more.
If a provisional government is formed in Petersburg today, the local policeman will still be king in Obdorsk for a long time: the fact that Obdorsk is so far from the Tobolsk highway explains its relative liveliness, for it serves as an independent center for an enormous area.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/1907/1905/ch32.htm   (8138 words)

  
 Chapter Father Ferapont of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
There was a strange belief, chiefly however among the most ignorant, that Father Ferapont had communication with heavenly spirits and would only converse with them, and so was silent with men.
The monk from Obdorsk, having been directed to the apiary by the beekeeper, who was also a very silent and surly monk, went to the corner where Father Ferapont’s cell stood.
The monk from Obdorsk bowed down before the saint and asked his blessing.
www.bibliomania.com /0/0/235/1030/17173/3.html   (724 words)

  
 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
In the crowd in the dead man's cell he noticed with inward aversion (for which he immediately reproached himself) the presence of Rakitin and of the monk from Obdorsk, who was still staying in the monastery.
The monk from Obdorsk was conspicuous as the most fussy in the excited crowd.
He was to be seen everywhere; everywhere he was asking questions, everywhere he was listening, on all sides he was whispering with a peculiar, mysterious air.
www.ccel.org /d/dostoevsky/karamozov/htm/book07/chapter01.html   (4230 words)

  
 The Brothers Karamazov :: Concordance   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The monk from Obdorsk, having been directed to the apiary by the
Rakitin and of the monk from Obdorsk, who was still staying in the
The monk from Obdorsk was conspicuous as the most fussy in the
www.doc.ic.ac.uk /~rac101/concord/texts/karamazov/karamazov.cgi?word=Obdorsk   (176 words)

  
 Chapter The Breath of Corruption of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The monk from Obdorsk heard all this attentively, heaving deep sighs and nodding his head.
For they felt with a certain awe, in spite of their audacity, that he had not come for nothing.
Standing in the doorway, Father Ferapont raised his arms, and under his right arm the keen inquisitive little eyes of the monk from Obdorsk peeped in.
www.bibliomania.com /0/0/235/1030/17190/5.html   (730 words)

  
 Russian Courier // Information //
The Russians were forcing indigenous reindeer-herding Nenets people who didn’t want to pay the tribute into the tundra areas further north.
Obdorsk gradually became a trade town that supplied furs and fish.
In 1930 the town became the administrative center of the newly established Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area and in 1933 it was renamed Salekhard.
www.russiancourier.com /en/info/geography/48500   (785 words)

  
 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Within the hour the "miracle" was of course known to the whole monastery, and many visitors who had come for the mass.
It was he who had been standing near Madame Hohlakov the previous day and had asked Father Zossima earnestly, referring to the "healing" of the lady's daughter, "How can you presume to do such things?" He was now somewhat puzzled and did not know whom to believe.
Alyosha remembered afterwards how their inquisitive guest from Obdorsk had been continually flitting to and fro from one group to another, listening and asking questions among the monks that were crowding within and without the elder's cell.
www.ccel.org /d/dostoevsky/karamozov/htm/book04/chapter01.html   (3224 words)

  
 Salekhard   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Salekhard with a population of 29,6 thousand, a centre of the Yamalo-Nenetsky region, is located on on the right bank of the Ob river.
Since 1930 Obdorsk is the centre of Yamalo-Nenetsky region.
Salekhard acquired its name in 1933 and was raised into the status of a town in 1938.
www.acase.ru /online/gettowndescription.jsp?id=322   (93 words)

  
 ADMINISTRATION OF THE MUNICIPAL ENTITY “SALEKHARD TOWN”. Information about the Company. Description, Address, Phones, ...
The town of Salekhard (called Obdorsk before 1935) is the capital of the world’s biggest gas-producing district — the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area.
It is the only town on our planet which is located right on the latitude of the polar circle.
The history of Salekhard began in 1595, when Russian Cossacks lay the foundation of the Obdorsk palisade here.
enc.ex.ru /cgi-bin/n1firm.pl?lang=2&f=1965   (320 words)

  
 Kul`tura Aborigenov Obdorskogo Severa v XIX Veke
The region around Obdorsk, now the city of Salekhard, was formerly a remote border zone that attracted southern and western cultures.
The Obdorsk Fair, the climax of the annual cycle, was visited by many travelers from around the world in the 18th-19th centuries.
This book is based on the Ostyak collection from the Museum of Anthropology at Moscow University collected by D.T. Yanovich in 1909.
www.panrus.com /books/details.php?langID=1&bookID=92   (266 words)

  
 The Khanty Obdorsk dialect corpus   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Khanty corpus of the Obdorsk dialect contains samples from the text collections of H. Paasonen (Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 175).
Merja Salo has compiled and edited the Khanty corpus of the Obdorsk dialect, and analyzed it morphologically.
The use of the corpora located at the University of Helsinki Corpus Server is restricted to concern research and teaching.
www.ling.helsinki.fi /uhlcs/metadata/corpus-metadata/uralic-lgs/khanty/Khanty-Obdorsk-Folklore.imdi   (334 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 10.1482: Uralic Langs, Formal Linguistics
OSTYAK Irina Nikolaeva, Russian Academy of Science This study is intended to provide a grammatical description of Ostyak, one of the Uralic languages spoken in Western Siberia.
The description is based on the Northern Ostyak dialect of Obdorsk, although divergent features of other dialects are also discussed.
A sample text in the Obdorsk dialect of Ostyak is provided.
linguistlist.org /issues/10/10-1482.html   (542 words)

  
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Subsequent glaciation left behind two terminal moraines that run east to west on either side of the upper Ob' and create a secondary basin drained by the above-named tributaries and occupied by the Eastern Khanty.
Northern Khanty live in the Beloyarsk and Obdorsk regions.
The Southern Khanty were virtually incorporated into Russian society by the middle of this century and no longer live a traditional life style.
www.nmsu.edu /~english/hc/hckhanty.html   (582 words)

  
 Grigory Verigin: Accomplishment of the Mission
In November 1894, Doukhobor leader Peter Vasilyevich Verigin was transferred from exile in the far northern town of Kola to the village of Obdorsk in remote Siberia.
His brother Vasily Vasilyevich Verigin and Vasily Vereshchagin travelled with him as far as Moscow, from where they continued south to the Caucasus.
When they arrived, there were big conventions and meetings where they spoke in detail about their trip, spoke about the health and well being of Peter Vasilyevich, and explained in detail why he was being transferred for such a long distance and such a remote place as Obdorsk.
www.doukhobor.org /Grigory-Verigin2.htm   (2320 words)

  
 The Exiles
In some places in the Far North during the long winter nights sheer despair lays hold of the exiles.
In January last, in one of the remote settlements of the Obdorsk region, five exiles ended their lives by suicide.
A girl took the lead, and she was followed by four men.
dwardmac.pitzer.edu /anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/terror/chapter4.html   (2654 words)

  
 Leon Trotsky: 1905: Chapter 33 Back
Obdorsk was not going to be the final destination for any of us, and certainly not for me. The thought of escape never left us for an instant.
I announced that I was tired and ill and would resist any attempt to force me to continue the journey at once.
There was a merchant from Obdorsk, and, well, he pinched his sister's money, and I, to tell the truth, helped him a bit.
www.ucc.ie /acad/socstud/tmp_store/mia_2/Library/archive/trotsky/works/1905/ch33.htm   (15562 words)

  
 Reindeer herding and petroleum development on Poluostrov Yamal: Sustainable development or mutually incompatiable uses
Parallel ambitions for developing the so-called 'Northern Sea Route' have meant that traders have been active in the area for several centuries (Golovnev et al.
The town of Salekhard (formerly Obdorsk), at the base of Yamal Peninsula, celebrated its 400th anniversary in 1995.
However, early interests in furs, fish and timber have shifted to gas, gas condensates and oil in recent decades.
www.thearctic.is /articles/cases/reindeer/enska   (954 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - AGC: Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Golden Horde, Novgorod and Muscovy are given knowledge of Obdorsk.
Two "stepping stones" are placed at both ends of the imaginary line between the now-linked provinces, in order to show the connection between them.
Both Novgorod and Pskov should start with an Innovative rating of 7, to reflect closer ties to the western world and the nature of their society (they stay in the orthodox techgroup, however).
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?threadid=48801   (5237 words)

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