A yurt is a portable, bent

Steam bending

Steam bending is a woodworking technique where strips of wood are steamed to make them pliable and are bent around a mould. It is a time-honored method in wooden boat building for shaping boat frames. It is also used to make traditional wooden lacrosse sticks....

 wood-framed dwelling structure traditionally used by Turkic

Turkic peoples

The Turkic peoples are peoples residing in northern, central and western Asia, southern Siberia and northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe. They speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family. They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds...

 nomad

Nomad

Nomadic people , commonly known as itinerants in modern-day contexts, are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. There are an estimated 30-40 million nomads in the world. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but...

s in the steppe

Steppe

In physical geography, steppe is an ecoregion, in the montane grasslands and shrublands and temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biomes, characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes...

s of Central Asia

Central Asia

Central Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...

. The structure comprises a crown or compression wheel (tüýnük) usually steam bent

Steam bending

Steam bending is a woodworking technique where strips of wood are steamed to make them pliable and are bent around a mould. It is a time-honored method in wooden boat building for shaping boat frames. It is also used to make traditional wooden lacrosse sticks....

, supported by roof ribs which are bent down at the end where they meet the lattice

Latticework

Latticework is a framework consisting of a criss-crossed pattern of strips of building material, typically wood or metal. The design is created by crossing the strips to form a network...

 wall (again steam bent). The top of the wall is prevented from spreading by means of a tension band which opposes the force of the roof ribs.