Tazovsky District
Tazovsky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the seven in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Tazovsky.
Geography
The district is located in the north, northeast, and east of the autonomous okrug and borders Purovsky, Nadymsky, and Krasnoselkupsky District; these exist to the south, south-west, and south-east, respectively - alongside Yamalsky District west over Gulf of Ob, and Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District and Turukhansky District east within Krasnoyarsk Krai. The area of the district is, which consists of the Gyda Peninsula, Taz Estuary as well as the region directly east of it.The district is home to the Novatek Arctic LNG 2 project.
Demographics
Population: 16,537 ; The population of the administrative center accounts for 41.1% of the district's total population.Ethnic composition :
- Nenets – 63.3%
- Russians – 24.5%
- Tatars – 2.2%
- Ukrainians – 1.9%
- Nogais – 1.3%
- Azerbaijanis – 1.2%
- Others – 5.6%