Qualla: Yamalia https://qualla.com/yamalia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/v/e/v/n/yamalia-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Yamalia https://qualla.com/yamalia Yamalia: Introduction https://qualla.com/yamalia/ Photo credit Dmitry A. Mottl (photographer) & User:Tom_dl, CC BY-SA 3.0. Before it was a gas province, before it was Russian, before it was anything that appears on modern maps, the land now called Yamalia was the Khanate of Sibir. The Tatar Khan Kuchum ruled a diverse confederation of Siberian Tatars, Khanty, Mansi, Nenets, Yamals, and Selkups, and he fought hard to keep it. He attempted to unify his peoples through conversion to Islam, hoping a shared faith would steel them against the Cossacks advancing from the west. It did not. Yermak Timofeyich, the Cossack leader who led the Russian conquest, was killed in the process, but the conquest succeeded anyway. In 1595, colonists established Salekhard, the region's first Russian settlement. Today it is the only city in the world that sits directly on the Arctic Circle.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/v/e/v/n/yamalia-wk/vevn-yamalia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Yamalia: Where the Map Runs Out https://qualla.com/yamalia/ Photo credit Sergey.vlad.popov, CC BY-SA 4.0. Yamalia, formally the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, occupies Russia's northwestern Arctic coast. The Gulf of Ob splits the region's coastline in two. To the northeast lies Taymyria; to the east, the Krasnoyarsk region; to the south, Khantia-Mansia; and to the west, the Komi Rep...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/v/e/v/n/yamalia-wk/vevn-yamalia-where-the-map-runs-out.mp3 0:06 2 full Yamalia: The Towns Gas Built https://qualla.com/yamalia/ Photo credit Russian Federation Government, CC BY 4.0. Yamalia's cities exist because of what lies underground. Salekhard, the administrative capital, predates the gas era by four centuries, but its modern significance is bureaucratic rather than industrial. Novy Urengoy, the largest town and the last stop on the Tyumen railway, is t...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/v/e/v/n/yamalia-wk/vevn-yamalia-the-towns-gas-built.mp3 0:06 3 full Yamalia: Three Thousand Kilometers by River https://qualla.com/yamalia/ Photo credit Dmitry A. Mottl (photographer) & User:Tom_dl, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Ob-Irtysh river system is Yamalia's highway. Severflot operates passenger boats from Antipayuta in the far north through Salekhard and Tobolsk all the way to Omsk in the south, a journey of more than 3,000 kilometers along waterways that have served as transportation corridor...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/v/e/v/n/yamalia-wk/vevn-yamalia-three-thousand-kilometers-by-river.mp3 0:06 4 full Yamalia: The Khanate's Ghost https://qualla.com/yamalia/ Photo credit Lady3mlnm, CC0. Yamalia's history before Russian conquest is more dramatic than its bleak modern reputation suggests. The Khanate of Sibir was a genuine state, with diplomatic relationships, military capacity, and religious ambitions. Khan Kuchum's attempt to convert his multi-ethnic subjects to...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/v/e/v/n/yamalia-wk/vevn-yamalia-the-khanates-ghost.mp3 0:06 5 full Yamalia: Edge of the Known World https://qualla.com/yamalia/ Photo credit Dmitry A. Mottl (photographer) & User:Tom_dl, CC BY-SA 3.0. Among Yamalia's more unusual destinations is the Gydansky Nature Reserve, located on the Arctic tundra along the Kara Sea in the region's northeastern corner. The nearest inhabited place is Gyda. Visitors will encounter neither long lines nor souvenir vendors. The Polar Urals off...

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