As the Ugra oil turned the Khanty and Mansi into marginals, then it became the support of their national identity, but left them disenfranchised.
The first part of the special project “Subordination of the territory: as the Soviet Union and its heiress Russia treat resources, people and nature.” Back in Soviet times, Russia was densely “hooked” on the “oil needle”. Nefedollars plugged holes in a socialist planned economy. By the mid-1970s, the USSR accounted for 20 % of all oil produced, it ranked first in the world. Almost 60 % of the country's oil was produced in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug).
