The Apuka are one of the nine subdivisions of the
Koryaks. In pre-Soviet Russia they were considered to be a distinct people. They speak their own dialect of the
Koryak language. They live primarily along the coast of the
Bering Sea
The Bering Sea (, ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and The Ameri ...
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Sources
* Wixman, Ronald. ''The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook''. (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1984) p. 12
* Olson, James S., ''An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires''. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994) p. 37
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External links
Endangered Languages of Siberia - The Koryak language
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Ethnic groups in Russia