Case file · Sacred site
The killings at sacred Lake Numto
In December 1933 Khanty and Nenets seized and strangled five Soviet officials who had entered a sacred island barred to women and fired at idols on Lake Numto.
1933 CE · 63.62, 71.33 · status: official
The account
The Kazym rebellion (1931–34) arose from forced collectivisation, the arrest of shamans and the fishing of a holy lake. The Red Army and OGPU crushed it in 1934.