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Overview | Maps | Wildlife | Chukotka's Regions | Chukchi | Beringia

Chukotka, including the Chukchi Peninsula, is the region of northeast Asia separated from Alaska at the Bering Strait. During Ice Ages, when sea levels dropped dramatically, Chukotka and Alaska were joined into a vast region called Beringia. Both Alaska and Chukotka deserve the name "Great Land" due to vast mountains and rivers.  Chukotka's native people include the Chukchi, both interior reindeer breeders/herders and coastal sea mammals hunters, plus the Siberian Eskimo, and other smaller groups. Dogs played a role in the historic cultures of these groups. Learn more.

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Raven and the
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Arctic Adaptations:
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Drawing Shadows
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1997-1902

 



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1581-1990

 



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Overview of Chukotka   [ Top ]

Chukotka and the Chukchi Peninsula: an introduction with maps

Introduction to Chukotka: travel, weather, geography, history, ecology, ethnic groups - Chukchi and Eskimo - and more

Chukotka: with details on the people, wildlife, terrain, news, Beringia that once linked Siberia and Alaska, travel including photo tours, many photos

Chukotka Administrative Status: autonomous district with 8 areas
· Chukotka Automomous Area, its capital Anadyr
· Chukotka Autonomous Okrug: far northeast Russia

Eskimo Society of Chukotka “Yupik” founded in 1990 to unite the peoples of Chukota, preserve their culture and way of life, address economic difficulties

Geography of Chukotka: terrain, rivers, locations

Berginia Heritage Program links Alaska and Chukotka peoples, cultures.
· Map of Beringia from Siberia's Lena River to Canada's Mackenzie River
· Photo Galleries: 9 photo collections landscape, plants, wildlife, peoples

Chukotka and Alaska: historical timeline of interactions between the regions

Economic Development in Chukotka in partnership with Alaska's Inupiat
· Dire Straits Across the Bering: economic challenges in recent years

Chukotka Home Page: business site with map, oil news, from 2001

Endangered Chukchi Language: and what the people call themselves
· Chukchi language including alphabet, pronunciation 

Chukchi Photos: 1980-1990 photographs of Chukota, wildlife, people

Photo Gallery - Chukotka Terrain: from the coast at Plover Bay to a view of an Arctic sunset - in a series of photo collections of villages, people including children of Novoe Chaplino, sled dog race there, and more

Travel to Chukotka & Kamchatka: with a slideshow of 66 pictures that includes Bering Island at dawn, a ritual site located on Ittigran Island with whale rib, and a Chukchi family at Yandrakinot with their dog

Chukotka: with sled dog and reindeer photos, and capital Anadyr [in Russian]

Chukotka Maps   [ Top ]

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Map: with the Chukchi Peninsula like a nose at far right, the Anadyr Country with Markovo at the center

Chukotka Map: in relation to Siberia, Kamchatka, Alaska

Eastern Siberia Map: Chukchi Peninsula, Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island, Hokkaido, Aleutians, and Alaska in context

Northeast Siberia Map: 1882 map of Chukotka and Kamchatka with historic names of bays, capes, rivers and villages

Northeast Siberia & Russian Far East Map: with Lake Baikal, Amur River flowing east to Sakhalin Island in Sea of Okhotsk, Lena River flowing north to Laptev Sea, other rivers such as Indigirka and Kolyma, the town of Anadyr at mouth of Anadyr River in Chukotka, plus a topographical map of Northeast Siberia, with rivers, mountains, seas, and large version

Map of Siberia's Indigenous People: with Chukotka, home of the Chukchi, Chuvan and Eskimo, at upper right

Map of Providenija Area: Siberian Eskimo enclave including Sireniki, the point closest to St. Lawrence Island

Chukotka's Wildlife: Animals & Plants   [ Top ]

Birds of Chukotka: with pictures of Chaun Bay on the Arctic coast of Chukotka, Cape Dezhnev or East Cape at the Bering Strait, the tundra of Wrangel Island, and Lake El'gygytgyn in the interior. Also the birds of Kamchatka and Kurile Islands to the south

Birds & Sea Mammals of the Bering Sea

Flora & Fauna of Chukotka: scroll down for vegetation and wild animals of Chukotka, its rivers and bordering seas, including walrus, salmon

Polar Bears of Chukotka & Alaska: with photo, map

Reindeer of Chukotka: a variety established about 1000 A.D., although domestication of reindeer likely started 5,000 years ago in the Altai

Walrus & Whales of Chukotka: including Pacific walrus, bowhead and beluga whales, with sea mammals of other areas of the North Pacific such as the Kuriles, Wrangel Island, more, also on this page

Chukotka's Regions   [ Top ]

Anadyr River Region

Anadyr River: photo of the wide and winding Anadyr near Snezhnoe, about 300 km west of the mouth of the river

Anadyr River: major watershed of three main rivers, Anadyr, Velikaya and Kanchalan, with major salmon runs. Image of salmon drying near Markovo

Anadyrskii Region: the villages, populations and geography of the interior region of Chukotka along the river, with photo of the river

Mouth of Anadyr River & Novo-Mariinsk: photographs from the late 1800s of the river and the settlement now the city of Anadyr

Chukotka Interior & Tundra

Chukchi Peninsula Tundra: ecosystem, photos, and Tundra & Village with photographs of the land

Snowy Mountains of Chukotka: with tree-lined river valley

Tundra Reindeer Camp and photo collection of Reindeer Chukchi and some Chukotka terrain

Bering Strait, East Cape & Uelen Area

"Ice Curtain Thaws" - story about the resumption of Eskimo contacts across the Bering Strait, with map showing Big, Little Diomede islands

Ekven burial ground & settlement - Uelen, Chukotka: this 500 BC to 1000 AD site gives a look at Early Whale Hunter cultures, includes walrus ivory tools, human burial in a boat, dog burial. Ekven shamaness burial

Provideniya & St. Lawrence Island

Ruins of a Whalebone House: at Avan near Provideniya, Chukotka

St. Lawrence Island: maps and photos, and St. Lawrence Island

Whale Bone Alley - Yttigran Island


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Ainu: Spirit
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East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic
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Sacred Hunt: A
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Antler on the Sea:
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Raven and the
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Arctic Adaptations:
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Shamanic Worlds:
Rituals and Lore
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Central Asia

 



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Drawing Shadows
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1997-1902

 



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Aleuts, Survivors of
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A History of the Peoples of Siberia:
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1581-1990

 

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The Chukchi of Northeast Siberia   [ Top ]

Overview & Origins

The Chukchi: a Siberian people "rich in reindeer" who came to the Bering Strait region after the Eskimo people

Chukchi: from the Centre for Russian Studies, Norway, plus a portrait of a Chukchi man and more about the peoples of Russia & Siberia

Chukchi Ancestors: early people in Chukotka, seen through archaeology and seen through ancient rock art on northeast Siberia's Pegtymel River flowing into the Chukchi Sea, showing boats and reindeer hunting, and more about the 1,000 year old Pegtymel rock art

Chukchi Origins: what recent genetic research tells us, as published in scientific articles about both mtDNA and Y chromosome research, about the Chukchi, Koryak and others, from WorkingDogWeb, and migrations to Central Asia and into Siberia, including reindeer Chukchi, from Spencer Wells

Paleolithic Origins of the Chukchi: and their Siberian neighbors as well as of the Native peoples of North and South Americas who have genetic connections with the peoples of Asia

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Chukchi Culture & Language

Chukchi Culture: tents of Chukchi and Siberian peoples, tattooing among Eskimo and Chukchi, a leather mask, sleighs & tools, rituals plus more on rituals, rock carving and myths of the reindeer Chukchi

Chukchee Cultures & People: the maritime and reindeer peoples, and reflections on reindeer Chukchi life by a modern writer

Chukchi Language & People: 70% of Chukchi speak their own language, and more on the Chukchee & Language and Eastern & Western dialects

Chukchi & Koriak Languages: with Russian and native words

Chukchi Photographs and 130 photographs with sled dog teams, a pair of dogs helping a hunter haul home a seal, hunters resting sled dog teams, links to photos of other northern people

Chukotka: with map, lists of the region's districts and villages, photos including reindeer camps and in bottom photo a native dog

Reindeer Chukchi: life of the reindeer Chukchi, in words and pictures, including sleighs, tools, clothing and dogs outside, dogs in the yaranga or tent, dogs in the four seasons

Reindeer Chukchee: the lives of a nomadic reindeer people, and a child's introduction to the Reindeer Chukchee

Shamanism among the Chukchi: rituals, talismans, beliefs, with pictures

Reindeer Chukchi Rituals: rituals of the fall celebration, use of fly agaric, elder "reads" reindeer shoulder blade to determine night of the ceremony - transcript of documentary "Pegtymel," named for northeast Siberia's Pegtymel River, site of ancient rock art

Reindeer Chukchi Sports: races, wrestling, shooting competitions, ball games - and reindeer racing, recorded as early as 1700s and continued today following Kil'vei ceremony celebrating the birth of new fawns.

Crossroads of Continents Exhibit: Siberia & Alaska - meet the Chukchi, Koryak, Even, Amur River people in Siberia, Eskimo, Aleut, more

Jesup Expedition to Northeast Siberia:  photographs of North Pacific peoples including the Ainu, Chukchi, and Itelmen of Siberia

Other Peoples of Northeast Siberia   [ Top ]

Aboriginal People of the Russia North: resources on the Aleut, Chukchi, Koryak, Eskimo, Evenk, Itelmen, Nikvh and many more

Ainu & Gilyak or Nivkh of Sakhalin Island: as well as the Orok, a Tungus reindeer-breeding people. Note: Ainu used harpoons, aconite in hunting

Aleuts of the Commander Islands, 200 miles west of the Aleutians

Eskimos of Siberia & North America: guide to these native peoples

Indigenous People of Siberia & Russian Far East: click on Peoples for map showing homelands of Chukchi, Even, Evenk, Sami, Yukagir, many more

Koryaks: history, language, culture of Koryaks, Chukchi's neighbors to the south on Kamchatka Peninsula, with photos of Koryak sled dogs, and a bibliography of materials on Koryaks, Chukchi, more

Kamchatka's Peoples: Koryak, Itelmen, and neighboring Chukchi, Aleut

Native Folks of Siberia: with photographs of the Chukchi of Northeast Siberia, and the Ainu, Itelmen and Nivkh of Kamchatka and the Lower Amur River region, with photos of sled dogs of the Itelmen

Native Peoples of Kamchatka: brief introductions to the Koryak, Itelmen, Evens and Evenki, Chukchi and Aleuts

Peoples of the Russian North and Far East:  resources about the North Pacific peoples including the Chukchi, Koryak, Evenki and more

Photo Gallery including Chukchi, Evenk, Nenets, other reindeer people

Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire: info on 85 peoples of Russia and Siberia, Chukchi, Koryak, Itelmen, Eskimo, Yukagir, Evenks

Reindeer Herding Peoples: with links to the Chukchi, Even and Evenki, Koryak, Nenets, more on Nenets, Sami, people of Mongolia, more

Reindeer Hunting & Herding Peoples: across Siberia, including Chukchi, Even and Evenki, Koryak, Ket, Nenet, Ngansan and more
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Beringia - Chukotka & Alaska Linked   [ Top ]

Beringia: an introduction with map showing Alaska and Siberia linked, and another look at Beringia with key archaeological sites on map

Beringia:  more about this Ice Age land, with map & text, plus the geology, changes in size as climate changed at different times, flora and fauna, marine mammals, and earliest peoples of Beringia

Beringia or Bering Land Bridge:  the Ice Age region at the Bering Strait between Siberia and Alaska, home to ancestors of the Chukchi and the Siberian and American Eskimo peoples

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve - Alaska: a segment of ancient Beringia and its plants, animals preserved on the Seward Peninsula

Beringia's Environment: reconstructing the ancient vegetation and climate plus a Beringia Photo Journey including a look at Beringia's Landscape with beautiful photos from Alaska, Kolyma region of Siberia, Wrangel Island

Circumpolar World: and the North Pacific Rim, with maps of Beringia and its ice shelves, productive hunting territory for early people

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