The Yukaghir are one of the oldest peoples in North-Eastern Asia. Originally they lived over a huge territory from Lake Baikal to the Arctic Ocean. By the time of the first encounter with Russians, Yukaghir were divided into twelve tribes with around 9,000 people.

The Yukaghir languages (/ ˈ j uː k ə ɡ ɪər / YOO-kə-geer or / j uː k ə ˈ ɡ ɪər / yoo-kə-GEER; also Yukagir, Jukagir) are a small family of two closely related languages—Tundra and Kolyma Yukaghir—spoken by the Yukaghir in the Russian Far East living in the basin of the Kolyma River.

Yukaghir, remnant of an ancient human population of the tundra and taiga zones of Arctic Siberia east of the Lena River in Russia, an area with one of the most severe climates in the inhabited world. Brought close to extinction by privation, encroachment, and diseases introduced by …

Jan 17, 2014 · The Yukaghirs are an indigenous, pre-Tungusic people of east Siberia, who have lived in this area since the Neolithic Age. They traveled in families, in yurts and half-dugouts,...

The Yukaghir are one of the smallest minorities in Russia. Territorially, they are subdivided into two groups: the Upper Kolyma (or Taiga) group lives in the Verkhnekolymsky District of the Sakha Republic and in the Srednekansky District of Magadan Oblast along the tributaries of …

Yukaghir language, language spoken by not more than a few hundred persons in the Kolyma River region of Sakha (Yakutiya) republic of Russia. Yukaghir was traditionally grouped in the catchall category of Paleo-Siberian languages with a number of languages that are not genetically related or structurally similar.

This book provides a comprehensive description of Yukaghir culture and society based on ethnographic information and other evidence collected by the Jesup North Pacific Expedition.

The Yukaghir people of eastern Siberia are the last vestige of an ancient ethnic group. The region they inhabit lies within the Arctic Circle, in the tundra and scrub zones east of the Lena River—an area with one of the harshest climates in the world (see Siberia).

The Yukaghir of the Kolyma River basin of Siberia are divided into two groups traditionally reliant on contrasting ecologies and livelihoods: those on the tundra of the northern or Lower Kolyma who relied on reindeer herding; and those in the taiga of the southern or Upper Kolyma who were primarily hunter-gatherers.

The Yukagirs are the indigenous people of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Several millennia ago, Yukaghir tribes inhabited the entire territory of modern Yakutia and border areas. The traditional culture of the Yukagirs began to take shape in the Late Neolithic with the participation of alien groups mainly from Transbaikalia and southern Siberia.