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The Yenets people, or Yenetses, Entsy, Entsi, Yenisei, Yenisei-Samoyed, Yenisey Samoyeds or Yeniseian people are a traditionally nomadic people who live on the east bank, near the mouth, of the Yenisei River, many in the village of Potalovo in the Taimyr Autonomous Territory, Taymyria of Krasnoyarsk Krai in western Siberia near the arctic circle. There are about 300 Yenets.

Their language is called Yeniseian , one of the Samoyedic languages. They still speak their languge, but education is in Russian so there is fear they may lose their languge.

The town of Potalovo was visited in the late 1990s by the British travel writer, Colin Thubron who found the Entsy deculturated and demoralized, beset with problems of alcoholism. The reindeer collective established in Nikita Khrushchev's day had been severely impacted by acid rain from the nickel smelters at NorilskOriginally founded as a gulag ( Soviet forced-labor camp,) Norilsk is now a major Russian Republic city with several hundered thousand residents. Norilsk is situated on some of the largest nickel deposits on earth. Consequently, mining and smelting ore ar. A fur farm which raises foxThe foxes comprise 23 species of omnivorous canids, found worldwide. Often fox refers to a member of the genus Vulpes especially the red fox, Vulpes vulpes''. Young foxes are called kits''. A group of foxes is a skulk''. General characteristics Foxes tend was similarly diminished. About half the population was unemployed with a few employed in reindeer herding on the west side of the river, the remainder living by fishing in the Yenisei River. Fisherman from Potalovo sometimes catch red sturgeon and Omul a type of SalmonThis article is about the fish. For the color, see salmon (color). Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the Salmonidae family. Several other fishes in the family are called trout. Salmon live in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. as well as charChar has several meanings, depending on context: Charring is the process of incomplete combustion of a substance (usually carbohydrates, such as wood or biomass), and char is the remains of charring (usually carbon, such as coal or charcoal). In charring, gang fish and northern pike. Thubron mentions a salted fish product called muksun .

Some social services continue to be provided by the Russian government, a small hospital, with a doctor and a few nurses; schools, although older children must attend in DudinkaDudinka in Russian) is a town and administrative center of Taymyria in the Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia. It is a port in the lower reaches of the Yenisei River, accessible to sea-going ships. Dudinka processes cargo for and sends it to the Norilsk Mining an to the north; and small pension s. The electric plant had recently burned and electricity was provided intermittently by a generator. Life expectancy is 45 with many dying violent deaths due to family violence and fighting.

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