List of notable

Nivkh Nivkh or Amuric or Gilyak may refer to: * Nivkh people The Nivkh, or Gilyak (also Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, ''Nʼivxgu'' (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, ''Nʼiɣvŋgun'' (E. Sakhalin) "the people"), are an indigenous et ...

(Gilyak) settlements in

Sakhalin Island Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, r=Sakhalín, p=səxɐˈlʲin; ja, 樺太 ''Karafuto''; zh, c=, p=Kùyèdǎo, s=库页岛, t=庫頁島; Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ, ''Sahaliyan''; Orok: Бугата на̄, ''Bugata nā''; Nivkh: ...

and the Lower

Amur River The Amur (russian: река́ Аму́р, ), or Heilong Jiang (, "Black Dragon River", ), is the world's List of longest rivers, tenth longest river, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China, Northeastern China (Inne ...

. Prior to 1905 settlements are listed from north to south in their geographical categories with most settlement names in the

Nivkh language Nivkh (; occasionally also Nivkhic; self-designation: Нивхгу диф, ''Nivxgu dif'', ), or Gilyak (), or Amuric, is a small language family, often portrayed as a language isolate, of two or three mutually unintelligible languages spoken b ...

or in the only know given Russian name.

Nivkh population in 2002

According to the Russian Census of 2002 most Nivkhs have lived in following districts: Ulchsky, Nikolayevsky of

Khabarovsk Krai Khabarovsk Krai ( rus, Хабаровский край, r=Khabarovsky kray, p=xɐˈbarəfskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Russian Far East and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District ...

and Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Nogliksky, Okhinsky of Sakhalin Oblast. Some Nivkhs live outside of their native area in big citites of

Khabarovsk Khabarovsk ( rus, Хабaровск, a=Хабаровск.ogg, r=Habárovsk, p=xɐˈbarəfsk) is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative centre of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia,Law #109 located from the China ...

, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Poronaysk.

Nivkh settlements before 1905

;Amur Estuary *Nikolaevsk *Lazatev ;West Sakhalin Coast *Tamlavo *Ngyl'vo *Valuevo *Langry *Chingai *Pyrki *Pogibi *Uandi *Ytyk' *ViakhtuPolitical exile

Lev Sternberg Lev (Chaim-Leib) Yakovlevich Sternberg (russian: Лев (Хаим-Лейб) Я́ковлевич Ште́рнберг) (, Zhitomir, Russian Empire – August 14, 1927, Dudergof, now Mozhaisky, Soviet Union) was a Russian and Soviet ethnographer ...

began his ethnographic expeditions in Viakhtu on the

Nivkhs The Nivkh, or Gilyak (also Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, ''Nʼivxgu'' (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, ''Nʼiɣvŋgun'' (E. Sakhalin) "the people"), are an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island ...

and Oroks where he soon crossed Sakhalin to the Tym' River to the ''black gilyak clans'' (Shternberg and Grant, p. xxxii, 6). *Khoe *Tangi *Arkovo *Port Aleksandrovsk ;Sakhalin Bay *Rybnoe *Visk'vo *Pomyt' *Nil'vo *Matnyr' *Ngyd' *Koibgervo ;East Sakhalin Coast *Khankes' *Urkdt' *Pil'tun (island) *Kakervo *Kharkor'vo *Chaivo *Lad'vo *Tyrmyts' *Vachi *Mil'kovo *Tagry *Lub'vo *Lung'yo *Nappi *Ngamb'vo ;

Tym River The Tym () is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai and Tomsk Oblast in Russia, right tributary of the Ob. The length of the river is , and it drains a basin of . The Tym freezes up in October to early November and stays icebound until late April to May. ...

*Yukyr' *Chkharvo *Slavo *Uskovo *Tymovo *Rykovskoe

Footnotes

References

*Black, Lydia (1973) ''Nivkh (Gilyak) of Sakhalin and the Lower Amur''. Arctic Anthropology. Volume 10 No.1 p. 94 *Shternberg, Lev Iakovlevich and Bruce Grant. (1999) ''The Social Organization of the Gilyak''. New York:

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External links

The Nivkhs
from '' The Red Book'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Nivkh placenames Nivkh Lists of place names Sakhalin Khabarovsk Krai Rural localities in Khabarovsk Krai Geography of Sakhalin Oblast