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A yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger is a portable, round tent ...
Some yurts in the steppe, 1921 Inside a yurt Yurts in the steppe Temple at the Dashichoiling monastery. The yurt, traditional dwelling of Mongolian nomads, is a circular structure supported by a collapsible wooden frame and covered with wool felt. In Mongolian, a yurt is known as a ger (гэр).
The most numerous of the Siberian Yupik peoples, the Chaplino Eskimos (Ungazigmit) had a round, dome-shaped building for winter. Literature refers to it as a "yaranga", the same term which the Chukchi people use, but the term used in the Chaplino Eskimos' language is mengteghaq (IPA [mɨŋtˈtɨʁaq], extended Cyrillic: мыӈтыӷаӄ). [4]
In other countries, gers are known as yurts. Most Ger districts are not connected to water supplies, so people get their drinking water from public wells. For a warm shower or a bath, there are bathhouses. Since there is no sewer system, Ger district parcels usually have a pit toilet. [1]
Portable buildings (e.g. yurts) have been used since prehistoric times. [1] Many modern types of portable buildings are designed so that they can be carried to or from the site on a large lorry and slung on and off by a crane.
A glamping "village" with semi-permanent yurts, gravel paths, and a hot tub. Glamping is a portmanteau of "glamorous" and "camping", and describes a style of camping with amenities and, in some cases, resort-style services not usually associated with "traditional" camping.
Most of the Southern Altaians traditionally lived in yurts. Many Northern Altaians mainly built polygonal yurts with conic roofs made out of logs and bark. Some Altai-Kizhi also lived in mud huts with birch bark gable roofs and log or plank walling. The Teleuts and a few Northern Altaians lived in conic homes made out of perches or bark.
Tyvan chums in ethnocultural complex of Aldyn-Bulak, Russia, Tyva. A chum (/ tʃ uː m /) is a temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic (Nenets, Nganasans, Enets, Khanty, Mansi, Komi, Selkups) reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia, Russia.