The Samoyeds, a group of Uralic-Samoyedic-speaking Asiatic peoples including the Nensty, the Entsy, the Sel'kup and the Nganasan, characterized, like the Khant, by yellowish white skin, straight or concave noses, high cheek bones, and short stature, migrate during the first millennium CE from the Sayan Mountains to a new homeland, the tundras and forests of northern Russia between the Kola and Taymyr peninsulas.