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Nenets family in their tent. Total population 44,640 (2010)
Regions with significant populations Nenets, Russian
Predominantly Orthodox Christianity (Russian Orthodox Church)
also Shamanism Related ethnic groups other Samoyedic peoples
The Nenets (Nenets: ненэцяˮ, Russian: ненцы), also known as
Samoyeds, are an indigenous people in northern arctic Russia.
According to the latest census in 2002, there are 41,302 Nenets
in the Russian Federation, most of them living in the Yamalo-
Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Nenets Autonomous Okrug. They speak
either the Tundra or Forest varieties of Nenets.   Due to a
false etymology,[1] the name Samoyed entered the Russian
language as a corruption of the self-reference Saamod, Saamid
(the Samoyedic suffix "-d" denotes plurality). It is the same as
Saami (formerly Lapps or Lapons) in Finland, and Suomi, the
Finnish name of Finland. In Russian ethnographic literatur