Yukaghir people - Wikipedia
The Yukaghirs, or Yukagirs (Northern Yukaghir: вадул, деткиль (wadul, detkil), Russian: юкаги́ры), are a Siberian ethnic group in the Russian Far East, living in the basin of the Kolyma River.
Yukagir - Wikipedia
Yukagir (Russian: Юкагир; Yakut: Дьүкээгир, Cükeegir) is a rural locality (a selo), the only inhabited locality and the administrative center of Yukagirsky National (Nomadic) Rural Okrug of Ust-Yansky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 798 kilometers (496 mi) from Deputatsky, the administrative center of the district.
Yukaghir | Indigenous Language, Siberia, Reindeer Herding
Yukaghir, remnant of an ancient human population of the tundra and taiga zones of Arctic Siberia east of the Lena River in Russia, an area with one of the most severe climates in the inhabited world. Brought close to extinction by privation, encroachment, and diseases introduced by other groups, they numbered some 1,100 in the late 20th century.
Yukagir - Encyclopedia.com
The Yukagir are one of the smallest minorities in the former USSR. Territorially, the Yukagir are subdivided into two groups: the Taiga group lives in the Upper Kolyma District of the Yakut Republic and in the Saimanchanskoi District of Magadan Province along the …
The Yukaghirs: A nomadic Siberian tribe on the brink of …
Jan 17, 2014 · The Yukaghirs are an indigenous, pre-Tungusic people of east Siberia, who have lived in this area since the Neolithic Age. They traveled in families, in yurts and half-dugouts,...
Yukaghir people - Wikiwand
The Yukaghir are one of the oldest peoples in North-Eastern Asia. Originally they lived over a huge territory from Lake Baikal to the Arctic Ocean. By the time of the first encounter with Russians, Yukaghir were divided into twelve tribes with around 9,000 people. The Yukagir ethnonym is Odul or Vadul, which means “mighty”.
Yukagir - History and Cultural Relations - World Culture …
The Yukagir, descendants of the aboriginal population of northeastern Siberia, evolved, in terms of culture, from a variant of the eastern Siberian Neolithic hunters and lake and river fishermen who used dugout canoes and ceramic Utensils.
Yukagir - Inside the New Russia
The Yukagir used death-cap mushrooms as drugs in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Yukagir legends preserved records of pottery though the earthenware had been long since ousted by wooden and birch bark utensils.
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The Yukaghir people of eastern Siberia are the last vestige of an ancient ethnic group. The region they inhabit lies within the Arctic Circle, in the tundra and scrub zones east of the Lena River—an area with one of the harshest climates in the world ( see Siberia ).
Yukagir - Religion and Expressive Culture - World Culture …
Yukagir legends preserve their ancient world. Giant elk hunters, their true image hidden behind fantastic features, subdue the elk and fasten them to their coats, but eventually are conquered by the more clever Yukagir.