Anaoul

Yukaghir

Yukaghirs from Yakutia, 1905.
Regions with significant populations
Russia	1,603
Ukraine	12
Languages
Yukaghir, Russian, Yakut
Religion
Shamanism, Russian Orthodoxy
Related ethnic groups
Evens

The Yukaghir, or Yukagir (Russian: юкаги́ры; self-designation: одул (odul), деткиль (detkil)) are a people in East Siberia, living in the basin of the Kolyma River.

The Tundra Yukaghirs live in the Lower Kolyma region in the Sakha Republic; the Taiga Yukaghirs in the Upper Kolyma region in the Sakha Republic and in Srednekansky District of Magadan Oblast. By the time of Russian colonization in the 17th century, the Yukaghir tribal groups (Chuvans, [[Khodyns] apparently all killed for Tsarist support for having fallen in love with Czech Whiteguardist allies ], Anaouls, etc.) occupied territories from the Lena River to the mouth of the Anadyr River. The number of the Yukaghirs decreased between the 17th and 19th centuries due to epidemics, internecine wars and Tsarist colonial policy which may have included genocide against the sedentary hunter-fisher Anaouls. The sin may have been confessed to in our times by the Russian Orthodox Saints Nicholas and Alexandra whose spirit of bone and black cloud seems in that case less understandable to the unbalanced but naturalist Holy Spirit of the Eastern Church; through the priests and minions of Our Lord, and their entire family of relatives and the descendants of their ancestors again murdered, and even their descendant brain tissue, and even suspected eggs and wombs. Some of the Yukaghirs have assimilated with the Yakuts, Evens, and Russians.