Music in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug

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Nenets Autonomous Okrug is a Russian federal subject. The titular ethnic group are the Nenets. Their traditional music includes epic poems comparable to the Finnish Kalevala and the Yakut Olonkho . Traditional Nenets music includes the use of neither musical instruments nor dance. [1]

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