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  RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: T :: Taimyr Autonomous Region
Taimyr Autonomous Region was formed, as well as the majority of other regions, by the decree of the All-Soviet Central Executive Committee on December 10, 1930.
The rivers belong to the basin of the Yenisey, the Pyasina, the Taimyr and the Khatanga.
The ancient peoples of Taimyr the Nganasans and the Dolgans now have their own national written language, abc-books, own national culture.
www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/t/taimyr_autonomous_region.shtml   (476 words)

  
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The characteristic features of Taimyr’s vegetation cover are the poor development of lichens, except in the forest-tundra sub zone, the northernmost location of the forests and consequent shift of all latitudinal boundaries.
The Taimyr’s population experiences an extremely high level of unemployment; the workers suffer from the wages delay and the living standards are extremely low.
Taimyr is characterized with a unique combination of animal cenoses typical for the zonal continental tundras, as well as their island and mountain invariants.
www.grida.no /ecora/pdfb/rfrs/rfrtaimyr0202.doc   (10354 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
The Taimyr (Dolgan-Nenets) Autonomous Area was formed on December 10, 1930, as part of Krasnoyarsk Territory by a resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK).
Taimyr is one of the least known Russian regions: only 3% of its subsurface has been studied.
The Taimyr Autonomous Area has been one of the least socioeconomically developed subjects of the Russian Federation in all macroeconomic indicators from the time it was formed.
www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=5&node=371&doc_id=-28   (1667 words)

  
 Taimyr Autonomous Okrug - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Taimyr Autonomous Okrug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The region comprises the Taimyr Peninsula, with the adjacent mainland and islands, such as Severnaya Zemlya.
Huge reindeer herds are found on the Taimyr Peninsula; some 13,500 sq km/5,212 sq mi of the region has been designated as a nature reserve, the second largest in Russia.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Taimyr%20Autonomous%20Okrug   (240 words)

  
 Protecting The Environment | Norilsk Nickel
One of the most important tasks that the company sets itself is the reduction of harmful atmospheric emissions and the improvement of the ecological situation on the Taimyr and Kola peninsulas.
The pyrometallurgical facilities at the Mednii and Nikel works are to be reconstructed, with a considerable amount of sulphur being transformed into "rich" gases of autogenous aggregates, and there is a programme for the construction of facilities that can make use of this sulphur contained in gases resulting from the smelting process.
In order to reduce the level of harmful pollutants and to substantially improve the ecological situation at MMC Kola, on the Kola Peninsula, MMC Norilsk Nickel is working together with the Norwegian government on a project for the reconstruction of the Pechenganikel Combine's smelting operations.
www.nornik.ru /en/ecology   (566 words)

  
 The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The Dolgans inhabit an area in the southern part of the Taimyr (Dolgan-Nenets) National Territory, in the Khatanga and Pyassina river basins, and to a lesser extent on the Yenisey (the Dudinka district).
As late as the 17th century the Taimyr Peninsula was occupied by Samoyedic tribes.
In the census of 1959 not all the Yakut-speaking inhabitants of the Taimyr National Territory identified themselves with the Dolgans, some considered themselves to be Yakuts.
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/dolgans.shtml   (1294 words)

  
 Taimyr masters awarded with diplomas of 2nd Festival of Bone Carving Art of Russian Peoples / Krasnoyarsk News
4/12/2006 2:28:37 PM Nikolay Laptukov and Alexei Chunanchar, Taimyr bone carvers, presented souvenirs from deer antler with use of mink fur and bird feathers as an example of use of different materials in creation of a masterpiece at the 2nd Festival of Bone Carving Art of Russian Peoples, held in Yakutsk.
Moreover, an exhibition of original goods made from deer antler and mammoth tusks from collection of Taimyr area center of national cultures was organized at the festival.
According to the results of the festival, Taimyr masters were awarded with gratitude letters, a diploma 'For elaboration and promotion of the Northern theme' and a set of bone carving tools.
english.newslab.ru /news/188101   (287 words)

  
 Taimyr page
The Taimyr fold-belt occupies an important position as the northeastern continuation of the Uralide Orogen and is a vital component in our understanding of Arctic geology.
It is currently difficult to produce a definitive model for the evolution of the fold-belt, and for its relationships to surrounding regions.
It is essential to show which components of the orogen were associated with Baltica and which with Siberia, particularly in the light of recent faunal evidence from southern Taimyr suggesting an affinity with Baltica in the Late Ordovician.
folk.uio.no /torgeir/taimyr.html   (209 words)

  
 Газета.Ru - Russian Political Map May Lose Two Regions
Smaller Taimyr and Evenk Autonomous Areas are located within the boundaries of the Krasnoyarsk Region but both enjoy independent status of a subject of the Russian Federation under the Federal Constitution.
During the tкte-а-tкte meeting between Putin and the Taimyr’s Kloponin the president agreed with the governor’s proposal to return Norilsk to Taimyr, and to merge Taimyr into Krasnoyarsk Region.
Taimyr governor suggested that at first regional leaders should establish a special anti-crisis commission, whereupon an expert board comprising of representatives of all three regions will be established.
www.gazeta.ru /2002/03/29/RussianPolit.shtml   (644 words)

  
 Krasnov O.S., Staroseltsev V.S., Samoilov A.G., Ernst V.A. Strategy of development of oil and gas resources in the ...
In the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug (AO) hydrocarbon production began with the development of the Messoyakhskoye gas field in the late 60s and was completely oriented toward providing the Norilsk mining and smelting works (now the Norilsky Kombinat Joint-Stock Company) with gas.
Taimyr oil and condensate due to their composition and physical properties are amenable to production of the whole range of oil products (Table 2).
Taimyr liquid hydrocarbons are technologically amenable to the use for various purposes: from transportation of crude oil via West-Siberian oil pipelines to their refining on STRP near producing areas or small refineries.
www.geoinform.ru /english/mrr.files/issues/articles/ataimyr2-01.html   (2982 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - Business - The Mineral-Rich North Still Hanging on During Lean Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In Ust-Port, a village of 450 people in Taimyr, the local equivalent of the copper smelter is the lednik, a maze of storage rooms that was dug into the permafrost in the 1930s.
With a year-round temperature of minus 21 to minus 24 degrees Celsius, the lednik is used to keep fish and reindeer meat in the summer and is a source of pride for Ust-Port residents.
Morozova of Taimyr said the money her region received from the federal government - 178 million rubles ($6.4 million) - covered only about 40 percent of the cost of this year's delivery.
www.sptimes.ru /story/13565   (3849 words)

  
 Notes on the breeding biology of the Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica in Taimyr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bar-tailed Godwit breed on the wettest parts of the relatively dry, low hills of the region at a distance of between 0.4 to 3.5 km from the river.
Small numbers of breeding Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica were encountered during the international expeditions organized in recent years to various parts of the Taimyr peninsula by the Russian Academy of Sciences (Prokosch and Hotker 1990; Yesou 1991).
Dorogov, V. and Kokorev, Y. On the avifauna of northern Taimyr: the Nizhanayaya Taimyra basin.
nature.ok.ru /models/Limosa.htm   (1895 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The development of local institutions that regulate resource use among native hunters in the Taimyr, a process running counter to the global trend, is a topic of applied and fundamental importance to anthropology, native rights, and environmental policy.
In the Taimyr Autonomous Region, an Arctic subunit of Krasnoyarskii Krai in central Siberia, a variety of property relations have developed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
The central Taimyr's native population shared in an intense period of development beginning in the late 1960s when state-organized hunting, fishing, trapping was encouraged over reindeer herding, and permanent settlements were constructed.
www.eth.mpg.de /people/ziker/abstracts.html   (3898 words)

  
 RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: T :: Taimyr Peninsula
Cape Chelyuskin at the tip of the peninsula is the northernmost point of the Asian mainland.
The peninsula, covered mostly with tundra and drained by the Taimyra River, forms most of the Taimyr Autonomous Region (1992 pop.
Taimyr's economy depends on mining, fishing, and dairy and fur farming as well as such traditional activities as reindeer raising and trapping.
www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/t/taimyr.shtml   (163 words)

  
 Great Arctic Zapovednik
Above the Arctic Circle, the Taimyr Peninsula and the waters that surround it – the Karsk and Laptev Seas – are so remote that vast expanses of wilderness remain virtually untouched by human beings.
The largest section of the zapovednik, the Lower Taimyr section (1,900,000 ha), covers the lower reaches of the Lower Taimyr River and the Shrenk River basin, as well as the coastlines of the Taimyr and Toll Bays.
Particularly interesting are the remains of mammoths, musk oxen, bulls, and reindeer found on the western side of the Taimyr Peninsula.
www.wild-russia.org /bioregion1/Great_Arctic/arctic.htm   (1743 words)

  
 Chronology of events - NUPI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Taimyr legislators do not agree with a point in the krai's charter that makes the industrial city of Norilsk subordinate to the krai, according to Roketskii.
According to "Kommersant-Daily" on 2 February, Taimyr legislators believe the stipulation regarding Norilsk violates the Russian Constitution and plan to appeal to the prosecutor-general and Constitutional Court if the charter is not canceled.
The governor of Taimyr Autonomous Okrug is former Norilsk Nickel head Aleksandr Khloponin.
www.nupi.no /cgi-win/Russland/krono.exe?5025   (166 words)

  
 Russia: Kremlin Approves Regions' Decision To Merge - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The unification of Krasnoyarsk and the Taimyr and Evenkia autonomous districts is in line with a Kremlin drive to centralize power and reduce the number of regions from the current 89 to between 40 and 50.
The 17 April popular referendums in Siberia, in which voters approved the merger of the autonomous Taimyr and Evenkia regions into the much more populated Krasnoyarsk territory, is all part of a pattern.
Obviously, a small entity like Evenkia, or like Taimyr, or like some of the other autonomous districts which will probably be swallowed up by some of their neighbors -- all of these players were very weak players in the political system.
www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/04/36352eb0-d2ae-4802-83fb-608788a8e290.html   (1111 words)

  
 SHELL Oil Company interested in geological prospecting in Taimyr / Krasnoyarsk News
That was stated by Michael Born, the leader of a technical group on geological prospecting of the company, at the press conference.
A group of specialists of the oil company arrived in Taimyr to review geological materials in order to participate in an auction for the right to hold geological prospecting of lots situated in Taimyr.
It is worth reminding that Taimyr Autonomous Area administration had prepared a set of documents for geological prospecting and further use of four oil deposits of the region.
english.newslab.ru /news/169590   (240 words)

  
 3rd International Mammoth Conference - Abstracts Mol-Mor
On the west bank of Lake Taimyr, a pair of tusks were found, together with the mandibula and some other parts of the skeleton.
The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, common in Eurasian faunas with the woolly mammoth, is unknown from the Late Pleistocene of the Taimyr Peninsula, as is the case for North America.
The skull, which includes a poorly developed antler fragment and the mandible, was excavated, as were the extremities with an almost complete set of hooves (including the after claws), parts of the coat and the contents of the intestinal tract.
www.yukonmuseums.ca /mammoth/abstrmol-mor.htm   (8983 words)

  
 Taimyr Peninsula - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
island off the northwest coast of the Taimyr Peninsula where the helicopter was last in contact...
land they cling to, the Taimyr Peninsula, is the northernmost...
The Taimyr Peninsula is almost the size of...
www.highbeam.com /ref/doc0.asp?docid=1E1:X-TaimyrPe   (229 words)

  
 Interview mit Dr. Peter Prokosch - WWF-Deutschland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Er schildert Eindrücke von seinen Reisen und den Anfängen der Arbeit auf Taimyr.
Unser besonderes Interesse an Taimyr entstand ja aus unserer Wattenmeer-Arbeit, in deren Rahmen wir auch über arktische Vogelarten geforscht haben.
Der WWF hat sich deshalb auch in anderen Schlüsselregionen des ostatlantischen Zugweges, zum Beispiel in Mauretanien oder auch in Südafrika erfolgreich für die Einrichtung von Nationalparken eingesetzt.
www.wwf.de /regionen/40_Jahre/Taimyr/InterviewPP   (719 words)

  
 WWF - Taimyr and Siberian Coastal Tundra - A Global Ecoregion
These enormous mammals lived on the Gydan and Taimyr Peninsulas before they became extinct thousands of years ago.
This Global ecoregion is made up of these terrestrial ecoregions: Northeast Siberian coastal tundra; Taimyr-Central Siberian tundra.
Home to the largest migrating herd of wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in Asia, the Taimyr and Siberian Coastal Tundra also provides nesting areas for approximately 50 bird species, of which nine are endangered - including Bewick's swan and the bean, red-breasted, and lesser white-fronted geese.
www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/taimyr_siberian_coastal_tundra.cfm   (287 words)

  
 Saving Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He stated that the economic, social and environmental problems of the Taimyr, though differentiated from those in other northern climates by the hardships of modern Russia, are not entirely dissimilar to the problems in other parts of the far North, such as in Scandanavia and Alaska.
She is interested in hearing from anyone who would like to correspond with him and perhaps travel to the Taimyr to learn about the region.
She said that students do not necessarily have to be Environmental Studies, Philosophy or Russian majors to correspond with Protasov or to visit; "They must simply have an earnest curiosity in learning more about environment and culture's interaction with the environment." Professor Adler maintains regular correspondence with Protastov.
www.abroadviewmagazine.com /archives/fall_01/saving_home.html   (2024 words)

  
 Taimyrhalbinsel - Wikipedia
Die Taimyrhalbinsel befindet sich in im Autonomen Kreis Taimyr in Nordsibirien (Russland, Asien) und stellt den nördlichsten kontinentalen Festlandteil der Erde dar.
Nördlich des Kaps Tscheljuskin jenseits der Wilkizkistraße liegt die Inselgruppe Sewernaja Semlja, die mit drei Inseln die nördlichste Gegend Sibiriens darstellt.
Quer über die Taimyrhalbinsel verläuft in Südwest-Nordost-Richtung das Byrrangagebirge, das nordöstlich des Taimyrsees, der vom Fluss Taimyr in Süd-Nord-Richtung durchflossen wird, etwa 1.500 m Höhe erreicht.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taimyr-Halbinsel   (375 words)

  
 WWF Global 200 Ecoregions -- Taimyr and Siberian Coastal Tundra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Taimyr and Siberian Coastal Tundra is one of the most intact examples of arctic tundra in Central Eurasia.
The moist soil, marshes, and freshwater streams and lakes of the Taimyr and Siberian Coastal Tundra provide habitat for many species that are well adapted to this challenging climate.
The few months of summer in the ecoregion are just enough time for the surface of the tundra to thaw and make everything wet.
www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/g200/g116.html   (484 words)

  
 PLEOSPORA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pleospora punctiformis Niessl [ = Clathrospora punctiformis (Niessl) Berl.] – Taimyr Peninsula.
Pseudopeziza caricina (Lib.) Sacc.[ = Pyrenopeziza caricina (Lib.) Rehm] – Polar Ural, Taimyr Peninsula.
Pseudopeziza singularis (Peck) J.J. Davis – Taimyr Peninsula.
www.binran.ru /infsys/ra_fun/P2.fungi.htm   (2597 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Obviously, a small entity like Evenkia, or like Taimyr, or like some of the other autonomous districts that will probably be swallowed up by some of their neighbors -- all of these players were very weak players in the political system.
The success of the 17 April referendum on subsuming the Taimyr and Evenk autonomous okrugs into Krasnoyarsk Krai is likely to encourage those Russian officials who favor holding a similar referendum on abolishing the current status of the Republic of Adygeya by subsuming it into Krasnodar Krai, within which it constitutes an enclave.
In Taimyr Autonomous Okrug, a coalition of Yabloko and the Russian Party of Life called For Our Native Taimyr placed a strong second to Unified Russia with 21 percent of the vote.
www.rferl.org /reports/rpw/2005/04/16-220405.asp   (4453 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Alexandr Lebed cherishes hopes for conquering Taimyr
PRAVDA.Ru covered the whole story: as a result of the Krasnoyarsk governor's policy, the region's budged is still not passed, while relations between the region and Taimyr autonomous district has not been settled yet.
He, probably, had hoped, that the Ministry would curb Taimyr, though the result was reverse.
Just after the sitting in the Ministry, Alexandr Lebed sent a letter to Taimyr governor Alexandr Khlopynin, informing him he recalled his sign under the agreement of December 16 2001.
newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/03/01/26719_.html   (721 words)

  
 The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The Enets inhabit the east bank of the River Yenisey in the western part of the Taimyr Peninsula.
As late as 1974 the density of population on the Taimyr was low (42,000 inhabitants per 862,100 square kilometres).
The Enets consider themselves to be the indigenous inhabitants of the Taimyr Peninsula.
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/enets.shtml   (1337 words)

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