About this book:

Journey deep into Siberia’s lesser-known heartland, where the Ob River has carried hunters, traders, empires, engineers, and dreamers for thousands of years. *A History of Khanty-Mansi / Yugra* reveals a land shaped by taiga, tundra, waterways, and fur—long before oil fields, fortresses, and Soviet industrial plans transformed its destiny.

From ancient Khanty and Mansi lifeways to Mongol contacts, Russian expansion, the fur trade, the Gulag, post-Soviet upheaval, and today’s debates over identity and sustainability, this sweeping narrative brings Yugra’s hidden past vividly to life. It is a story of Indigenous resilience, imperial ambition, ecological cost, and cultural revival.

Scholarly yet accessible, rich with geography, archaeology, oral memory, and political insight, this book invites readers to see Siberia not as a remote edge of history, but as a dynamic crossroads of the world. For anyone fascinated by Russia, Indigenous peoples, empire, or the North’s stark beauty, Yugra’s story is essential reading.