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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 41302 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.

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language
Russian language, Nenets languages
population place
Russia
related
Samoyedic peoples
religion
Eastern Orthodox Church, Shamanism, Russian Orthodox Church
total population
44640

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