A meeting of the Coordination Board for Sustainable Development of Indigenous Minorities of the North was held in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District.

The Community Council of the Department for Indigenous Minorities of the North of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District held a meeting on the District ethno-cultural education in the Town of Salekhard.

A meeting of the Board of the Department for Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District Indigenous Minorities Agenda was held in the Town of Salekahrd.

The meeting of the working group elaborating the Law “On Russia’s Arctic Development” was held in the Town of Salekhard.

Dmitriy Kobilkin held a Coordination Council for Sustainable Development of Indigenous Minorities of the North yesterday.

Arctia Ltd. is looking for partners to conduct an international Arctic expedition in the summer of 2017 on board a Finnish icebreaker.

Arctic Comics is an anthology of Inuit stories about Arctic Canada, but there is a Winnipeg connection — it was compiled by local artist and writer Nicholas Burns.

The Deputy Governor, Irina Sidorova, the Department for Education head, and Gregoriy Ledkov, a State Duma Deputy of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, participated in the XV session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Igor Barinov, the head of the Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs, and Irina Socolova, the Deputy Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, presented members of the XV session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues with nomadic schools program.

259 Yamalians moved to new housing since the start of the year in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District upon the District relocation program. 3.2 thousand m2 of substandard housing were demolished.

During the first 11 months of this year Yamal builders put into operation 3000 856 new apartments with total area of 218.2 thousand sq. m.

Recently, Salekhard hosted the XXV Congress of the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North "Yamal is for our descendants!", and a new President of the organization was elected as a part of it.

Russian racing driver Mikhail Aleshin set a Guinness World Record by accelerating his race car to the top speed of 228 km/h on the surface of a frozen lake in Russia’s Murmansk Region.

The staff of Preventive Medicine Center continues to carry out examinations of Yamal’s population. A modern Health Express hardware-software complex is used for this purpose.

Additional 99 million rubles were allocated from the federal budget for providing preferential medicines to the residents of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.