Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях Село Ларьяк— Югры.и окрестности ( в Нижневартовском районе Ханты-Мансийского автономного округа) в 1912-1913 годах Часть 2. Pre-revolutionary Russia in photos Laryak village and its surroundings ( in the Nizhnevartovsk district of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug) in 1912-1913 Part 2. Музыка: Ярмарочная - Русский гусли Music : Fair - played on the Russian Gusli The rural settlement of Laryak on the banks of the River Vakh, a tributary of the River Ob, is in the heartland of the Khanty peoples of Siberia. The village site is located on an elevated area on three sides surrounded by water, from the north by peat bogs. The settlement was founded in 1816. However, it is also known that the Znamenskaya church in Laryaka was built in 1772. Its ministers lived at the expense of "voluntary donations" of parishioners, who numbered 243 people. According to the oral traditions of the Vakh Khanty, their ancestors in the distant past, even before the arrival of the Russians, lived on the As-Yakh (Ob) and its vast meadows. The reason for the relocation from the Ob to the Wah is likely to be wars with the Tatars, which in the 16th century seized the lands of the Irtysh and the middle Ob and pushed the Ostyaks who lived there. In turn, the Khanty forced the Nenets to the river Taz. By the end of the 16th century, Russians had come here. The villages and surrounding locations eked out an existence by hunting, fishing and selling squirrel skins. By 1896 Russian "discovered" the area and introduced the native population to tobacco and alcohol. With disastrous results: Moral codes began to break down and new infectious diseases were introduced.....
