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Siberia is a vast region spanning the northern part of the Asian continent and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia.As a result of the Russian conquest of Siberia (16th to 19th centuries) and of the subsequent population movements during the Soviet era (1917–1991), the modern-day demographics of Siberia is dominated by ethnic Russians and other Slavs.
The Indigenous minority peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Far East of Russia (Russian: коренные малочисленные народы Севера, Сибири и Дальнего Востока, romanized: korennye malochislennye narody Severa, Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka) is a Russian census classification of local Indigenous peoples, assigned to groups with fewer than 50,000 ...
The period lists are organized by the official classifications based on the number of people in each group and their location. List of minor indigenous peoples of Russia, as defined by the Russian doctrine. The list is sorted by region; List of larger indigenous peoples of Russia; Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the ...
The peninsula is traditionally the home of tribes of the indigenous peoples of Siberia as well as some Russian settlers. It lies along the Northern Sea Route , or Northeast Passage . Industries on the peninsula are mining ( tin , lead , zinc , gold , and coal ), hunting and trapping , reindeer raising, and fishing .
The name Tunguska, a region of eastern Siberia bounded on the west by the Tunguska rivers and on the east by the Pacific Ocean, has its origin from the Tungus people (Evenks). [1] Russian Tungus was likely taken from East Turkic tunguz (literally, 'wild pig, boar', from Old Turkic tonguz ), [ 2 ] although some scholars prefer derivation from ...
The Chukchi, or Chukchee (Chukot: Ԓыгъоравэтԓьэт, О'равэтԓьэт, Ḷygʺoravètḷʹèt, O'ravètḷʹèt), are a Siberian ethnic group native to the Chukchi Peninsula, the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean [4] all within modern Russia. They speak the Chukchi language.
Map of the Yeniseian Peoples with Ket being the northern most group. The Kets have a rich and varied culture, filled with an abundance of Siberian mythology, including shamanistic practices and oral traditions. Siberia, the area of Russia in which the Kets reside, has long been identified as the originating place of the Shaman or Shamanism.
Indigenous peoples of Siberia (27 C, 60 P) Indigenous peoples of the Altai Republic (1 C, 5 P) Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East (17 C, 51 P)