Pedagogic and educational potential of traditional fishing and hunting games of the Forest Nenets people

and educational potential of traditional fishing and hunting games. This study provides an analysis of the games of the Forest Nenets people described in previously published studies. The author analyses the classification of the Forest Nenets’ games suggested by the other authors. The author suggests his own classification believing that it reflects pedagogical and educational impact on the child’s and adult’s organism in a more sophisticated way. The study describes the multifunctional orientation of the traditional hunting games in terms of their universality in the vital activities of children and teenagers. Objective: to determine, describe and in some cases to reconstruct the traditional fishing and hunting games of the Forest Nenets people, as well as to reveal their pedagogical and educational potential. Research materials: the author in the work relied on the information on the games of the forest Nenets people contained in published sources, as well as own field materials of the author collected in Nizhnevartovsky District of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra (the Agan Forest Nenets people). Results and novelty of the research: the scientific novelty of the study consists in the following facts: the traditional games of the forest Nenets of a fishing and hunting nature are identified, and in some cases reconstructed; their content is most fully described; the pedagogical and educational potential of these games is revealed; the comparison of the presented games with the games of other northern ethnic groups of the Russian Federation is presented; a differentiated classification of traditional games of the Forest Nenets is proposed. It was revealed that the fishing and hunting games of the Forest Nenets acted as an effective pedagogical and educational tool that allows the subject to overcome the psychophysical difficulties, to acquire certain motor skills and skills.