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Indigenous small-numbered peoples.
36 peoples of the North, Siberia, the Far East and the North-West. Each map marker is an approximate core area of traditional residence, not a settlement boundary.
- Kamchatka Krai (Aleutsky District, Commander Islands)
Traditionally engaged in fishing and sea-mammal hunting.
Source ↗ - Chukotka AO, Sakha (Yakutia), Kamchatka Krai, Magadan Oblast
Traditionally divided into inland reindeer herders and coastal sea-mammal hunters.
Source ↗ - Chukotka AO (Anadyrsky District), Magadan Oblast
Traditional occupations are reindeer herding, hunting and fishing in the Anadyr basin.
Source ↗ - Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Sakha (Anabarsky District)
Historically nomadic hunters and reindeer herders of the Taymyr Peninsula.
Source ↗ - Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai (Potapovo, Vorontsovo)
Traditional occupations are reindeer herding, hunting and fishing on the lower Yenisei.
Source ↗ - Krasnoyarsk Krai (Evenkiysky District), Sakha (Yakutia), Irkutsk Oblast, Buryatia, Khabarovsk Krai
Traditionally combine taiga reindeer herding with hunting and fishing.
Source ↗ - Sakha (Yakutia) east of the Lena, Magadan Oblast, Kamchatka Krai, Chukotka
Traditional life centres on nomadic reindeer herding, supplemented by hunting and fishing.
Source ↗ - Kamchatka Krai (Tigilsky District), Magadan Oblast
Traditional economy is based on fishing, especially for salmon, and gathering.
Source ↗ - Leningrad Oblast (Kingiseppsky District, Soikinsky Peninsula)
Historically lived on the Gulf of Finland coast, engaged in fishing and farming.
Source ↗ - Chukotka AO (Beringovsky District)
Historically settled fishers and hunters of the Bering Sea coast.
Source ↗ - Krasnoyarsk Krai (Turukhansky District)
Historically hunters and fishers of the Yenisei taiga; the only surviving people of the Yeniseian language family.
Source ↗ - Khanty-Mansi AO, Yamalo-Nenets AO, Tomsk Oblast
Traditional livelihoods include fishing, taiga hunting, reindeer herding and gathering.
Source ↗ - Kamchatka Krai (Koryak Okrug), Magadan Oblast, Chukotka
Coastal Koryaks fish and hunt sea mammals, while inland groups herd reindeer.
Source ↗ - Altai Krai, Altai Republic, Kemerovo Oblast
Traditionally engaged in taiga hunting and pine-nut gathering.
Source ↗ - Khanty-Mansi AO, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Historically semi-nomadic hunters and fishers; some Mansi also keep reindeer.
Source ↗ - Khabarovsk Krai (Nanaysky District and the Amur valley), Primorsky Krai
Traditional economy is based on Amur River fishing; known for garments made of fish skin.
Source ↗ - Khabarovsk Krai (Imeni Poliny Osipenko and Ulchsky districts)
Traditionally engaged in fishing and hunting along the Amgun River.
Source ↗ - Yamalo-Nenets AO, Nenets AO, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Traditionally engaged in nomadic reindeer herding, hunting and fishing in the tundra.
Source ↗ - Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai (Ust-Avam, Volochanka, Novaya)
Historically specialised in hunting wild reindeer.
Source ↗ - Sakhalin Oblast (northern Sakhalin), Khabarovsk Krai (lower Amur)
Traditionally engaged in fishing, hunting and sled-dog breeding.
Source ↗ - Khabarovsk Krai (Vaninsky and Komsomolsky districts)
Traditional occupations include fishing, hunting and coastal marine harvesting on the Strait of Tartary.
Source ↗ - Sakhalin Oblast (Poronaysky and Noglikisky districts)
Traditionally herd reindeer and engage in fishing and hunting.
Source ↗ - Murmansk Oblast (Lovozersky District, Kola Peninsula)
Traditional occupations are reindeer herding and fishing.
Source ↗ - Yamalo-Nenets AO (Krasnoselkupsky District), Tomsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Traditionally engaged in hunting, fishing and reindeer herding.
Source ↗ - Krasnodar Krai (Tuapsinsky District, Lazarevsky District of Sochi), Adygea
An Adyghe subgroup traditionally engaged in farming, horticulture, livestock breeding and beekeeping.
Source ↗ - Kemerovo Oblast (Gornaya Shoria), Khakassia
Traditionally engaged in hunting, fishing and pine-nut gathering; known for blacksmithing.
Source ↗ - Chukotka AO (Providensky and Chukotsky districts)
Traditionally marine hunters of whales, walrus and seals.
Source ↗ - Republic of Buryatia (Okinsky District)
Traditionally practised mountain reindeer herding and hunting.
Source ↗ - Primorsky Krai (Olginsky District, upper Ussuri)
Traditional occupations are fishing, hunting and gathering.
Source ↗ - Altai Republic (Kosh-Agachsky and Ulagansky districts)
Traditionally pastoralists raising sheep, goats, horses and cattle.
Source ↗ - Kemerovo Oblast (Belovsky District), Altai Republic
Historically practised nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralism.
Source ↗ - Irkutsk Oblast (Nizhneudinsky District, Tofalaria)
Traditionally engaged in reindeer herding and hunting in the Eastern Sayan Mountains.
Source ↗ - Primorsky Krai (Pozharsky District), Khabarovsk Krai
Traditionally engaged in hunting, fishing and gathering in the Ussuri taiga.
Source ↗ - Khabarovsk Krai (Ulchsky District)
Fishing, above all for salmon, is the main traditional livelihood.
Source ↗ - Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast, Vologda Oblast
Live between Lakes Ladoga, Onega and Beloye and maintain the Veps language.
Source ↗ - Sakha (Nizhnekolymsky and Verkhnekolymsky districts), Magadan Oblast
Traditionally practise nomadic and semi-nomadic hunting and fishing, with reindeer herding in the tundra.
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List: Russian Government Order No. 536-r of 17 April 2006. Regional boundaries and cities: Natural Earth (public domain). Air links are great-circle distances, not scheduled flights.