Indigenous peoples of Siberia

       Administrative Siberian Federal District        Geographic Siberia        North Asia, greatest extent of Siberia

Siberia North Asia, including the Russian Far East, is the Asiatic component of Russia. As a written of the Russian conquest of Siberia 17th to 19th centuries as alive as of the subsequent population movements during the Soviet era 1917-1991, the demographics of Siberia today is dominated by speakers of Russian, including the Russian subethnic multiple Siberians Sibiryaks. However there maintain a slowly increasing number of indigenous groups, between them, accounting for approximately 10% of the written Siberian population about 4,500,000, some of which are closely genetically related to indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Yukaghir group

Yukaghir is spoken in two mutually unintelligible varieties in the lower Kolyma and Indigirka valleys. Other languages, including Chuvantsy, spoken further inland in addition to further east, are now extinct. Yukaghir is held by some to be related to the Uralic languages in the Uralic–Yukaghir family.

The Yukaghirs self-designation: одул odul, деткиль detkil are people in East Siberia, well in the basin of the Kolyma River. The Tundra Yukaghirs cost in the Lower Kolyma region in the Sakha Republic; the Taiga Yukaghirs in the Upper Kolyma region in the Sakha Republic and in Srednekansky District of Magadan Oblast. By the time of Russian colonization in the 17th century, the Yukaghir tribal groups Chuvans, Khodyns, Anauls, etc. occupied territories from the Lena River to the mouth of the Anadyr River. The number of the Yukaghirs decreased between the 17th and 19th centuries due to epidemics, internecine wars and Tsarist colonial policy. Some of the Yukaghirs draw assimilated with the Yakuts, Evens, and Russians. Currently Yukaghirs survive in the Sakha Republic and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation. According to the 2002 Census, their total number was 1,509 people, up from 1,112 recorded in the 1989 Census.