Predominantly Russian Orthodox Christianity also Shamanism
Related ethnic groups
other Chukotko-Kamchatkan peoples
Settlement of Koryaks in the Far Eastern Federal District by urban and rural settlements in %, 2010 census
Koryaks (Russian: коряки) are an Indigenous people of the Russian Far East, who live immediately north of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Kamchatka Krai and inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea.[citation needed] The cultural borders of the Koryaks include Tigilsk in the south and the Anadyr basin in the north.
The Koryaks are culturally similar to the Chukchis of extreme northeast Siberia.[3] The Koryak language and Alutor (which is often regarded as a dialect of Koryak), are linguistically close to the Chukchi language. All of these languages are members of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family. They are more distantly related to the Itelmens on the Kamchatka Peninsula. All of these peoples and other, unrelated minorities in and around Kamchatka are known collectively as Kamchadals.
Neighbors of the Koryaks include the Evens to the west, the Alutor to the south (on the isthmus of Kamchatka Peninsula), the Kerek to the east, and the Chukchi to the northeast.[citation needed]
The Koryak are typically split into two groups.[citation needed] The coastal people are called Nemelan (or Nymylan) meaning 'village dwellers', due to their living in villages. Their lifestyle is based on local fishing and marine mammal hunting. The inland Koryak, reindeer herders, are called Chaucu (or Chauchuven), meaning 'rich in reindeer'. They are more nomadic, following the herds as they graze with the seasons.[4]
According to the 2010 census, there were 7,953 Koryaks in Russia.
^Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity Archived 24 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
^[1] State statistics committee of Ukraine - National composition of population, 2001 census] (Ukrainian)
^"Chukchi". Minority Rights Group. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
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157 (2002 Census); 39,363 (1989 Soviet census). As of the 2002 census, Koryaks constituted about a quarter of the population. At the time, it had the...
2010 in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Koryak Okrug. It is mostly spoken by Koryaks. Its close relative, the Chukchi language, is spoken...
The Koryak Mountains or Koryak Highlands (Russian: Корякское нагорье) are an area of mountain ranges in Far-Eastern Siberia, Russia, located in Chukotka...
The flag of Koryak Okrug, in the Russian Federation, is a vertical triband of teal and white charged in the center by a red reindeer head. The flag was...
were killed; in 1705, the Koryaks destroyed a Cossack detachment led by Protopopov. In 1715, the Russians took the largest Koryak settlement, Bolshoy Posad...
grammar of the Itelmen language. Native peoples of Kamchatka (Itelmen, Ainu, Koryaks, and Chuvans), collectively referred to as Kamchadals, had a substantial...
Koryaks in 1744 and 1753–54. After the Russians tried to force the natives to convert to Christianity, different native peoples such as the Koryaks,...
are a geographical subgroup of the Koryaks in Russia. They live on the Kamchatka Peninsula primarily in the Koryak Autonomous Oblast. Wixman, Ronald....
The Koryak constituency (No.217) was a Russian legislative constituency in the Koryak Autonomous Okrug in 1993-2007. In 2007 Koryak AO was merged with...
were killed on their way back to Anadyrsk by the Koryaks. In 1700, a punitive expedition destroyed a Koryak village and founded Nizhne-Kamchatsk on the lower...
the Koryaks.[clarification needed] In pre-Soviet Russia they were considered to be a distinct people. They speak their own dialect of the Koryak language...
formed on 1 July 2007, as a result of the merger of Kamchatka Oblast and Koryak Autonomous Okrug, based on the voting in a referendum on the issue on 23...
reincarnation and birth worshipped by the Koryak people of Siberia. Her name means "Little Grandmother" in the Koryak language. She was worshipped at ceremonies...
of the circumpolar north include the Chukchi, Evenks, Iñupiat, Khanty, Koryaks, Nenets, Sámi, Yukaghir, and Yupik. Yupik people still refer to themselves...
KútqIy, or KúsqIy among the southeastern Koryaks and KúykIy or QúykIy among the northwestern Koryaks. In Koryak, the name is employed commonly in its augmentative...
family. There are many cultural similarities between the Chukchis and Koryaks, including economies based on reindeer herding. Both peoples refer to themselves...
Discovery of the Koryaks and Their Perception of the World". Arctic. 37 (4): 441–445. doi:10.14430/arctic2226. JSTOR 40510306. Krupnik, Igor. "Koryak". Arctic...
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North indigenous peoples include the Chukchi, Evenks, Iñupiat, Khanty, Koryaks, Nenets, Sámi, Yukaghir, Gwichʼin, and Yupik. The eight Arctic nations...
religious or shamanic purposes is reported from some ethnic groups such as the Koryak people of northeastern Siberia. As it is difficult to accurately identify...
back to the earth-surface world for the benefit of the people". Among the Koryaks, men bring the reindeer herds away from the summer camp during the summer...
belonged to haplogroup C-M217, a haplogroup which is also common among Koryaks, Itelmens, Yukaghirs, Tungusic peoples, and Mongols; six (29%) belonged...
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