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{{Short description|Former federal subject of Russia}}
{{Infobox Russian federal subject
|en_name=Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
|ru_name=Таймырский автономный округ
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|flag_caption=[[Flag of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug|Flag]]
|political_status=Autonomous Okrug
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|federal_district=[[Siberian Federal District|Siberian]]
|economic_region=[[East Siberian economic region|East Siberian]]
|adm_ctr_type=Capital
|adm_ctr_name=[[Dudinka]]
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|pop_2002census=39,786
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|established_date=10 December 1930
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|gov_as_of=31 December 2006
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|leader_name=[[Oleg Budargin]]
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'''Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets Autonomous Okrug''' ({{langx|ru|Таймы́рский Долга́но-Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг}}, ''{{Transliteration|ru|Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky avtonomny okrug}}''; [[Enets language|Enets]]: Таймыр Оша-Дюрак район, [[Nenets languages|Nenets]]: Таймыр Долганы-Ненэцие район) was a [[federal subjects of Russia|federal subject]] of [[Russia]] (an [[autonomous okrug]] of [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]]), the northernmost in Siberian Russia (and thus [[North Asia]]). It was named after the [[Taymyr Peninsula]]. It was also called '''Dolgan-Nenets Autonomous Okrug''' (Долгано-Ненецкий автономный округ), by the name of the indigenous people [[Dolgans]] and [[Nenets people|Nenets]].

[[File:Flag_of_Taymyr_Autonomous_Okrug.svg|thumb|alt=Flag of Taymyr Automonous Okrug|Flag of Taymyria]]
{{Coord|display=title|69|24|N|86|11|E}}
[[File:Taymyria_map.png|right|thumb|250px|Map of Taymyr]]

With an area of 862,100&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> ([[list of subdivisions of Russia by area|ranked 4th]]) and a population of 39,786 ([[Russian Census (2002)|2002 Census]]), the autonomous okrug was one of the least densely populated areas of Russia as of 2006. [[Dudinka]], with more than half of Taymyr's inhabitants, was the administrative center.

Following a referendum on the issue held on April&nbsp;17, 2005, Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets and [[Evenk Autonomous Okrug]]s were merged into [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]] effective January 1, 2007. Taymyr was given a special status within Krasnoyarsk Krai and incorporated as [[Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District]].

==Administrative divisions==
{{Main|Administrative divisions of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug}}
[[File:Tundra in Siberia.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Landscape of Taymyr]]
[[File:Nenets people near Dudinka (Ru200008050079).jpg|250px|right|thumb|Indigenous people of Taymyr]]

The city of [[Norilsk]], even though it is geographically located within Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, was administratively subordinated directly to [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]] prior to the merger.  This also applied to the [[urban-type settlement]] of [[Snezhnogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai|Snezhnogorsk]], which was administratively subordinated to Norilsk. Therefore, the okrug's population reported by the Census authorities does not include the populations of Norilsk and Snezhnogorsk.

{{See also|Administrative divisions of Krasnoyarsk Krai}}

==In popular culture==
Although not actually having been filmed in Taymyr, it is depicted in the 1985 film ''[[White Nights (1985 film)|White Nights]]'', starring [[Mikhail Baryshnikov]] and [[Gregory Hines]]. During the opening moments of the film, Baryshnikov's character Nikolai Rodchenko – a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] defector – is on a passenger plane that crash lands at "Norilsk Air Base". He later is taken into the home of Hines' character – a US defector – and his wife (played by [[Isabella Rossellini]]), where they advise him that he is in Taymyr upon regaining consciousness.

Taymyr is featured in the 2020 simulation video game ''[[SnowRunner]]'' as the third playable region of the game.

==Demographics==
===Population===
(2002):  39,786.

===Vital statistics===
:Source: [http://www.gks.ru/dbscripts/Cbsd/DBInet.cgi#1 Russian Federal State Statistics Service] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412011659/http://www.gks.ru/dbscripts/Cbsd/DBInet.cgi#1 |date=2008-04-12 }}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
! width="70pt"|Average population (x 1000)
! width="70pt"|Live births
! width="70pt"|Deaths
! width="70pt"|Natural change
! width="70pt"|Crude birth rate (per 1000)
! width="70pt"|Crude death rate (per 1000)
! width="70pt"|Natural change (per 1000)
|-
| 1970
| align="right" |  38
| align="right" |  761
| align="right" |  299
| align="right" |  462
| align="right" | 20.0
| align="right" | 7.9
| align="right" | 12.2
|-
| 1975
| align="right" |  42
| align="right" |  857
| align="right" |  317
| align="right" |  540
| align="right" | 20.4
| align="right" | 7.5
| align="right" | 12.9
|-
| 1980
| align="right" |  46
| align="right" |  996
| align="right" |  333
| align="right" |  663
| align="right" | 21.7
| align="right" | 7.2
| align="right" | 14.4
|-
| 1985
| align="right" |  51
| align="right" | 1 104
| align="right" |  370
| align="right" |  734
| align="right" | 21.6
| align="right" | 7.3
| align="right" | 14.4
|-
| 1990
| align="right" |  51
| align="right" |  842
| align="right" |  360
| align="right" |  482
| align="right" | 16.4
| align="right" | 7.0
| align="right" | 9.4
|-
| 1991
| align="right" |  50
| align="right" |  789
| align="right" |  335
| align="right" |  454
| align="right" | 15.8
| align="right" | 6.7
| align="right" | 9.1
|-
| 1992
| align="right" |  48
| align="right" |  692
| align="right" |  401
| align="right" |  291
| align="right" | 14.4
| align="right" | 8.3
| align="right" | 6.0
|-
| 1993
| align="right" |  46
| align="right" |  617
| align="right" |  448
| align="right" |  169
| align="right" | 13.4
| align="right" | 9.7
| align="right" | 3.7
|-
| 1994
| align="right" |  44
| align="right" |  585
| align="right" |  518
| align="right" |  67
| align="right" | 13.3
| align="right" | 11.8
| align="right" | 1.5
|-
| 1995
| align="right" |  43
| align="right" |  537
| align="right" |  501
| align="right" |  36
| align="right" | 12.6
| align="right" | 11.8
| align="right" | 0.8
|-
| 1996
| align="right" |  42
| align="right" |  486
| align="right" |  441
| align="right" |  45
| align="right" | 11.7
| align="right" | 10.6
| align="right" | 1.1
|-
| 1997
| align="right" |  41
| align="right" |  483
| align="right" |  374
| align="right" |  109
| align="right" | 11.9
| align="right" | 9.2
| align="right" | 2.7
|-
| 1998
| align="right" |  40
| align="right" |  498
| align="right" |  368
| align="right" |  130
| align="right" | 12.6
| align="right" | 9.3
| align="right" | 3.3
|-
| 1999
| align="right" |  39
| align="right" |  448
| align="right" |  376
| align="right" |  72
| align="right" | 11.6
| align="right" | 9.7
| align="right" | 1.9
|-
| 2000
| align="right" |  38
| align="right" |  460
| align="right" |  438
| align="right" |  22
| align="right" | 12.0
| align="right" | 11.4
| align="right" | 0.6
|-
| 2001
| align="right" |  39
| align="right" |  562
| align="right" |  438
| align="right" |  124
| align="right" | 14.5
| align="right" | 11.3
| align="right" | 3.2
|-
| 2002
| align="right" |  39
| align="right" |  608
| align="right" |  397
| align="right" |  211
| align="right" | 15.5
| align="right" | 10.1
| align="right" | 5.4
|-
| 2003
| align="right" |  39
| align="right" |  625
| align="right" |  386
| align="right" |  239
| align="right" | 15.9
| align="right" | 9.8
| align="right" | 6.1
|-
| 2004
| align="right" |  39
| align="right" |  637
| align="right" |  345
| align="right" |  292
| align="right" | 16.5
| align="right" | 8.9
| align="right" | 7.6
|-
| 2005
| align="right" |  38
| align="right" |  548
| align="right" |  369
| align="right" |  179
| align="right" | 14.5
| align="right" | 9.7
| align="right" | 4.7
|-
| 2006
| align="right" |  37
| align="right" |  540
| align="right" |  347
| align="right" |  193
| align="right" | 14.5
| align="right" | 9.3
| align="right" | 5.2
|}

===Ethnic groups===
[[File:Dentedie from Taimyr (31714009458).jpg|thumb|[[Nganasan people|Nganasans]] form one of the indigenous peoples of the [[Taymyr Peninsula|Taymyr]].]]
Of the 39,786 residents (as of the 2002 census) 1,018 (2.6%) chose not to specify their ethnic background. A quarter of the population identified themselves as indigenous Siberians ([[Dolgans]], [[Nenets people|Nenets]], [[Nganasan people|Nganasans]], [[Evenks]], or [[Enets people|Enets]]). 58.6% of the population were ethnic [[Russians]]. Other nationalities included 2,423 [[Ukrainians]] (6.1%), 587 [[Volga German]]s (1.5%), 425 [[Volga Tatars]] (1.1%), 294 [[Belarusians]] (0.7%) and 239 [[Azeris in Russia|Azeris]] (0.6%)
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|-bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! rowspan="2" | Ethnic<br />group
! colspan="2" | 1939 Census
! colspan="2" | 1959 Census
! colspan="2" | 1970 Census
! colspan="2" | 1979 Census
! colspan="2" | 1989 Census
! colspan="2" | 2002 Census
! colspan="2" | 2010 Census
|-bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
|-
| align="left"| [[Dolgans]]<sup>1</sup>
| 3,971||13.8%
| 3,934||11.8%
| 4,344||11.4%
| 4,338||9.7%
| 4,939||8.9%
| 5,517||13.9%
| 5,393||15.7%
|-
| align="left"| [[Nenets people|Nenets]]
| rowspan="3"| 2,523||rowspan="3"| 8.8%
| rowspan="2"| 1,878||rowspan="2"| 5.6%
| rowspan="2"| 2,247||rowspan="2"| 5.9%
| rowspan="2"| 2,345||rowspan="2"| 5.2%
| 2,446||4.4%
| 3,054||7.7%
| 3,494||10.2%
|-
| align="left"| [[Enets people|Enets]]<sup>2</sup>
| 103||0.2%
| 197||0.5%
| 204||0.6%
|-
| align="left"| [[Nganasans]]<sup>3</sup>
| 682||2.0%
| 765||2.0%
| 746||1.7%
| 849||1.5%
| 766||1.9%
| 747||2.2%
|-
| align="left"| [[Evenks]]
| 563||2.0%
| 412||1.2%
| 413||1.1%
| 338||0.8%
| 311||0.6%
| 305||0.8%
| 266||0.8%
|-
| align="left"| [[Russians]]
| 16,931||59.0%
| 21,799||65.3%
| 25,465||66.9%
| 30,640||68.2%
| 37,438||67.1%
| 23,348||58.6%
| ||
|-
| align="left"| Others
| 4,723||16.5%
| 4,677||14.0%
| 4,826||12.7%
| 6,546||14.6%
| 9,717||17.4%
| 6,629||16.7%
| 24,328||70.5%
|-
|colspan="15" align="left"| '''Notes:'''
# In the 1939 and 1959 census Dolgans were counted as [[Yakuts]].
# In the 1939, 1959, 1970 and 1979 census Enets were counted as [[Nenets people|Nenets]].
# In the 1939 census Nganasans were counted as [[Nenets people|Nenets]].
|}

==References==
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{{Subdivisions of Russia}}

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