Its staff works on promoting ethnic culture and preserving the Evenks’ traditions, customs and skills. The craftspeople are the center’s crown jewel, they can make boots, carpets, coats ...

In Yakutia in eastern Siberia, the Evenks coexist with civilization. ... My parents founded the department of the Evenk language at Ammosov Institute of Languages and Culture in Yakutsk.

Evenks would claim a herd, Brzakova says, but not bother to build fences. Inevitably, the herd would wander off, or else the owners would slaughter the herd for food.

Bookshelf ‘Undreamed Shores’ Review: The Women Who Changed Anthropology Taking on physical risk and arduous journeys, female researchers found their biggest obstacles were the attitudes of ...

Natalia Kanchuga, a collector and keeper of the Udege culture, a guide at the Bikin National Park and an elder of the Krasny Yar village, said in her childhood, in the 1960s and 1970s, to ...

An oil boom is erupting in one of Russia's poorest and least developed regions -- Evenkia in central Siberia. The vast Evenk Autonomous Okrug extends over an area nearly as large as Turkey but has ...