Salekhard (; Khanty: ; , lit. house on a peninsula) is a town and the administrative center of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is the closest town to the Polar circle, the main parts being about south and suburbs stretching to the north of the circle. Population:

The settlement of Obdorsk was founded in 1595, in the place of a Khanty settlement called Polnovat-Vozh , by Russian settlers after the conquest of Siberia. It was situated on the Ob River, and its name supposedly derives from that. The land around Obdorsk was referred to as Obdorsky krai, or Obdoriya.