Ethno tourist complex to open near Naryan-Mar

As told by the head of the Department for the indigenous people of the North and the traditional activities of the Nenets autonomous area Yuriy Khatanzeysky, the tourist center, situated seven kilometers away from the district's capital Naryan-Mar, will be a complex of constructions. A hotel, spaces for national crafts workshops, a summer platform for 150 people, a bath, a checkpoint, a boiler room, two deer shelters, a playground, a fire reservoir and a complete transformer substation are among them.

Besides, seven traditional life-like residential buildings with all internal furniture of the indigenous people – chumi – will be set up on the territory of the center. A 399 meters asphalted road is being constructed as a drop-off to the center. Garage boxes and an open parking for 50 cars will be equipped as well.

“A district government institution will be operating here at the budgetary funds. 12 people will be recruited which will provide new vacancies for the experts on culture of the indigenous people of the North”, - noted Yuriy Khatanzeysky. As the district Government for the indigenous people of the North explained to the Regnum Agency, the main aim of the project is to create an up-to-date base of the material and spiritual culture of the indigenous people for city’s tourists and guests.

The cultural center will accept tourist groups and deliver cultural events on district-, interregional- and international levels. Besides, the center can accept official delegations and become a vacation place for the people of Nenets area.

“As the center is going to be located in a nature zone, over the long term it will be possible to develop such types of services as skiing, sledge riding, snowmobiles driving, as well as riding reindeer and dog team, fishing at Kuya river which will be located near the complex, - explained Mr. Khatanzeysky. – Besides, extra-mural theme-based lessons on local lore can be held for children and pupils”.

Financing of the tourist cultural center construction is carried out within the long term target program called Preservation and development of the indigenous people of the North of Nenets autonomous area in 2011-2013. Co-financing is carried out according to the agreement on granting to the budget of the Nenets autonomous area in 2011 knitted between the Nenets area administration and the Ministry of regional development of the Russian Federation.

“To implement its travel potential, it’s necessary to fit the Nenets autonomous area in the travel rout across the North-West of Russia, range it as one of the travel destinations in the North and add it to Moscow’s and St. Petersburg’s markets. To do this, it’s necessary to develop travel infrastructure and the new ethnographical canter will be ministerial to it”, - stressed Yuriy Khatanzeysky.