Chuvans
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 1,002 (2010 census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Russia | 1,002[1] |
| Languages | |
| Russian, Chukchi; formerly Chuvan | |
| Religion | |
| Russian Orthodoxy | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Yukaghir, Koryaks, Chukchi, Evens | |
Chuvans (
Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East" recognized by the Russian government. Most Chuvans today live within Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
in the far northeast of Russia. Based on first-hand field research by several ethnographers in the 1990s, people who self-identify as Chuvans seem to do so by living in small villages and in the tundra in areas that are primarily associated with reindeer herding.
History
Historical accounts describe the Chuvans as a
Kolyma River following attacks by the Chukchi. There they gradually russified. The other part was assimilated by the Koryaks
and Chukchis. According to the 2002 Russian Census, there were 1087 Chuvans in Russia.
Language
The
Anadyr River
, neither herd reindeer nor are they able to speak Chukchi.
Ethnographic maps shows the Chuvans as the indigenous population of the Chuvanskoye village some 100 km west of Markovo.[2]
See also
- Chuvan Mountains