MANSI
PEOPLE
The
Issedones were an ancient people of Central Asia at the end of the
trade route leading north-east from Scythia, described in the lost
Arimaspeia of Aristeas, by Herodotus in his History (IV.16-25) and
by Ptolemy in his Geography. Like the Massagetae to the south, the
Issedones are described by Herodotus as similar to, yet distinct
from, the Scythians.
Location
:
Languages
: Mansi, Russian
Religion : Shamanism and Russian Orthodoxy
Related ethnic groups : Khanty
The
Mansi (Mansi / Mansi mahum) are a Ugrian indigenous people living
in Khanty–Mansia, an autonomous okrug within Tyumen Oblast
in Russia. In Khanty–Mansia, the Khanty and Mansi languages
have co-official status with Russian. The Mansi language is one
of the postulated Ugric languages of the Uralic family. The Mansi
people were formerly known as the Voguls.
Together
with the Khanty people, the Mansi are politically represented by
the Association to Save Yugra, an organisation founded during Perestroika
of the late 1980s. This organisation was among the first regional
indigenous associations in Russia.
History
:
Mansi
people c. 1873
The ancestors of Mansi people populated the areas west of the Urals.
Mansi findings have been unearthed in the vicinity of Perm.
In
the first millennium BC, they migrated to Western Siberia where
they assimilated with the native inhabitants. According to others
they are originated from the south Ural steppe and moved into their
current location about 500 AD.
The
Mansi have been in contact with the Russian state at least since
the 16th century when most of western Siberia was brought under
Russian control by Yermak Timofeyevich. Due to their higher exposure
to Russian and Soviet control, they are generally more assimilated
than their northern neighbours, the Khanty.
The
Mansi are said in legends to have ridden moose (Eurasian Elk) into
battle, though there is no historical evidence of this.
Notable
Mansi :
• Matrena Vakhrusheva (1918–2000),
linguist, philologist, writer; co-wrote the first Mansi-Russian
dictionary
• Yuvan Shestalov (1937–2011), writer
• Sergey Sobyanin (b. 1958), current mayor of Moscow
• Ruslan Provodnikov (b. 1984), boxer
• Sergey Ustiugov (b. 1992), cross-country skier
Source
:
https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Mansi_people