The Chuvans (Чуванцы in Russian) are one of the 40 or so "less-numerous peoples of the North" recognized by the Russian government. Most Chuvans today live within the Chukotka Autonomous Region 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 in one of two ways: On the one hand, some of them live in small villages and in the tundra in areas that are primarily associated with reindeer herding. Many of these speak the Chukchi language (belonging to the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family) in addition to Russian, and some have intermarried with the Chukchis. On the other hand, some, such as those living in the town of Markovo on the Anadyr River, neither herd reindeer nor are they able to speak Chukchi. This list is based solely on territory; the peoples listed here do not belong to a single language family or ethnicity: they are Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Eskimo-Aleut, and other groups. ... Chukotka Autonomous District (Чуко́тка) in the Russian Far East is the farthest northeast region of Russia, on the shores of the Bering Sea. ... Chukchi (Luoravetlan (in native language), Chukot, Chukcha) is a Palaeosiberian language spoken by circa 10,400 people (2001) (Chukchi) in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in the region called Chukotka. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages, sometimes called the Luorawetlan languages, are a language family of northeastern Siberia. ... Chukchi, or chukchee (Russian: чукчи (plural), chukcha, чукча (singular)) are an indigenous people inhabiting the northeasternmost portion of the Russian Federation on the shores of the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea. ... Anadyr (Ана́дырь) is a river in the extreme northeast of Siberia, Russia. ...

Historical accounts describe the Chuvans as a people in Siberia, which belonged to the Yukaghir group. They roamed along the upper streams of the Anadyr River and Anyuy River in the 17th century. The Chuvans were engaged in hunting, fishing and reindeer-breeding. In the 18th century, a part of the Chuvans retreated to the Kolyma River due to the onset of the Chukchi and became russified. The other part was assimilated by the Koryaks and Chukchis. According to the 2002 census, there were 1087 Chuvans in Russia. Jump to: navigation, search Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping land”) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ... The Yukaghir, or Yukagirs (Юкагиры in Russian; self-designation: одул (odul), деткиль (detkil)) are a people in East Siberia, living in the basin of the Kolyma River. ... Jump to: navigation, search Anyuy River (Анюй in Russian) is a river in Chukotka, Russia. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Hunting is, in its most general sense, the pursuit of a target. ... Jump to: navigation, search Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ... Jump to: navigation, search Binomial name Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1758) The reindeer, known as caribou in North America, is an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer (Rangifer tarandus). ... Breeding has several meanings related to procreation: In animal husbandry and in horticulture the selection of stock for propagation and the act of insemination by natural or artificial means is called breeding. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... The Kolyma River (Колыма́) is a river in northeastern Siberia, whose basin covers parts of the Republic of Sakha, Chukotka, and Magadan oblast. ... The term Chukchi may refer to Chukchi people Chukchi language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Jump to: navigation, search Russification is adoption of the Russian language or some other real or supposed Russian attribute (whether voluntarily or not) by non-Russian communities. ... See also: Koryakia Autonomous District Koryaks, a Mongoloid people of northeastern Siberia, inhabiting the coastlands of the Bering Sea to the south of the Anadyr basin and the country to the immediate north of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the southernmost limit of their range being Tigilsk. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ...