It is easy to recognize Valentin Levkovsky, a Kamchatka dog-team musher, at the start of the most large-scale and prestigious Beringia dog sled race. He wears his grandfather's sheepskin coat. it is ...

Tatiana’s work is focused on the revitalisation possibilities of her ancestral Itelmen language in Kamchatka. She is a member of the Council of Itelmens Tkhsanom and has presented at the UN on ...

In the 1980s, Petrasheva was one of the founders of the Council of Itelmens of Kamchatka’s Tkhsanom (‘dawn’ in Itelmen) – the first Indigenous NGO in Russia.

The Itelmens believed in spirits, were animists, and according to ethnographers, in ancient times practiced sky burials, burying their deceased in the hollows of trees. Public Domain ...

Not all Itelmens consider the local language their mother tongue - only the elder generations, although it is taught at school level and even used in local media.

The region is home to a variety of Indigenous groups including Evens, Koryaks, Chukchis, Orochs, Chuvans, Itelmens, and Yupik, who are relatives of Tetpon’s group, Inupiaq. Still, he doesn’t have much ...