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The Naukan, also known as the Naukanski, are a Siberian Yupik people and an
indigenous people of Siberia Siberia, including the Russian Far East, is a vast region spanning the northern part of the Asian continent, and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia. As a result of the Russian conquest of Siberia (17th to 19th centuries) and of the subseque ...
. They live in the Chukotka Autonomous Region of eastern
Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...
.


Language

The
Naukan Yupik language Naukan Yupik language or Naukan Siberian Yupik language (Naukan Yupik: Nuvuqaghmiistun) is a critically endangered Eskimo language spoken by ca. 70 Naukan persons (''нывуӄаӷмит'') on the Chukotka peninsula. It is one of the four Yupik ...
is a
Yupik language The Yupik languages () are a family of languages spoken by the Yupik peoples of western and south-central Alaska and Chukotka. The Yupik languages differ enough from one another that they are not mutually intelligible, although speakers of one ...
, belonging to the Eskimo–Aleut languages. Many Naukan people now speak the Chukchi language.


Culture

Traditionally Naukan people hunted
sea mammal The sea, connected as the world ocean or simply the ocean, is the body of salty water that covers approximately 71% of the Earth's surface. The word sea is also used to denote second-order sections of the sea, such as the Mediterranean Sea, ...
s. Guests from remote settlements traveled from remote settlements to participate in ''pol'a, the month-long Naukan whale festival.


History

Archaeological evidence places the Naukan on the
Chukotka Peninsula The Chukchi Peninsula (also Chukotka Peninsula or Chukotski Peninsula; russian: Чуко́тский полуо́стров, ''Chukotskiy poluostrov'', short form russian: Чуко́тка, ''Chukotka''), at about 66° N 172° W, is the eastern ...
off the Bering Sea back 2,000 years. They used to live on Big Diomede Island and
Cape Dezhnev Cape Dezhnyov or Cape Dezhnev (; ), formerly known as East Cape or Cape Vostochny, is a cape that forms the easternmost mainland point of Asia. It is located on the Chukchi Peninsula in the very sparsely populated Chukotka Autonomous Okrug o ...
in the Bering Strait. The
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
relocated Naukan people from their traditional coastal village of Naukan in 1958.Ainana, Ludmila, Tatiana Achirgina-Arsiak, and Tasian Tein
"Northeast Siberian."
''Alaska Native Collections.'' Accessed 9 Feb 2014.
 They now reside in the indigenous village of Lorino.


See also

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Yaranga A Yaranga ( Chukchi: ) is a tent-like traditional mobile home of some nomadic Northern indigenous peoples of Russia, such as Chukchi and Siberian Yupik. A Yaranga is a cone-shaped or rounded reindeer-hide tent. It is built of a light wooden fr ...
, a conical reindeer-hide tent *
Central Siberian Yupik language Central Siberian Yupik, (also known as Siberian Yupik, Bering Strait Yupik, Yuit, Yoit, "St. Lawrence Island Yupik", and in Russia "Chaplinski Yupik" or Yuk) is an endangered Yupik language spoken by the indigenous Siberian Yupik people along the ...
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Sirenik Yupik Sirenik or ''Sireniki'' are former speakers of a divergent Eskimo language in Siberia, before its extinction. The total language death of this language means that now the cultural identity of Sirenik Eskimos is maintained through other aspects: ...
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Yupik peoples The Yupik (plural: Yupiit) (; russian: Юпикские народы) are a group of indigenous or aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the Russian Far East. They are related to the Inuit and Iñupiat. Y ...
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Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East The indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East (russian: коренные малочисленные народы Севера, Сибири и Дальнего Востока) is a Russian census classification of indi ...


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Naukan abandoned Village on Cape Dezhnev Peninsula, Siberia
photo gallery {{DEFAULTSORT:Naukan People Ethnic groups in Siberia Chukchi Sea Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East Siberian Yupik