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 Taiga hunters and reindeer breeders of Siberia
The Evenks and the Evens - two relative in their language and culture peoples - live on the territory of the Central and Eastern Siberia since ancient times. In the Russian sources of 12th
century they were known as "the Tungus".
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Sea hunters
The first nation meeting the new day on the territory of Russia is the Asian Eskimo (1292 people) who lives at the very edge of Chukotka - on the coast of the Bering Strait and the Gulf of Anadyr.
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Shamanism of the peoples of the Far East and Siberia
Traditional world outlook of the Siberian peoples - shamanism- is a kind of perception of the universe where man is considered to be a part of it. It is aimed at the straightforward apprehension of the universe, comprehension of the interrelation of man and nature.
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Nomads of Siberia
Cattle breeding culture of the peoples of the Southern Siberia and the Yakuts is the unique combination of the Central Asian and Siberian elements. Turkic and Mongolian-speaking peoples of Siberia have certain cultural unity caused by ancient cultural and ethnogenetic connections. Basis of the nomadic and semi-nomadic way of life had been forming through centuries and some most archaic features date back to the Scythian period (7-3 c. B.C.).
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