Mangazeya

Coordinates: 66°41′38″N 82°15′17″E / 66.6938292°N 82.2546387°E / 66.6938292; 82.2546387
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Materials of archaeological excavations in Mangazeya (State Historical Museum, Moscow)

Mangazeya (

Yenisei Rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean. The name derives from a Nenets ethnonym Monkansi or Mongandi.[1]

Russian settlers of the White Sea coasts of Russia (pomors) founded a route along the Arctic coast to Arkhangelsk to trade with Norwegian, English and Dutch merchants. Mangazeya accumulated furs and ivory (walrus tusks) around the year to be shipped out during the short Northern summer. Trade also occurred along the Siberian River Routes' Northern Route. It became "a virtual Baghdad of Siberia, a city-state, all but independent of the Russian Empire in its wealth and utter isolation."[2]

The

Lower Tunguska, which was known as New Mangazeya until the 1780s.[citation needed
]

The location of original Mangazeya and the Pomors' Northern Sea Route were forgotten until the 20th century, when archaeologists discovered remains of a wooden Kremlin and a Gostiny dvor (trading centre) on the site of Mangazeya.

There is a 220 kV electrical substation owned by Gazprom with the same name nearby.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira (Moscow: Russkie slovari, 1998), p. 406.
  2. ^ George St. George, Siberia: the New Frontier (Taylor & Francis, 1970), p. 263.
  3. ISBN 0434928895
    ), p. 56.
  4. ^ Bobrick, East of the Sun, p. 56.

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