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Koryaks
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Settlement of Koryaks in the Far Eastern Federal District by urban and rural settlements in %, 2010 census Koryaks () 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. The cultural borders of the Koryaks include Tigilsk in the south and the Anadyr basin in the north.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Koryaks
- Ethnic group.image
- Koryak ceremony of starting the New Fire.jpeg
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Koryak ceremony of starting the New Fire
- Ethnic group.population
- 7,554
- Ethnic group.region1
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- Ethnic group.pop1
- 7,485 (2021 census)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 69 (2001 census)
- Ethnic group.langs
- Russian, Koryak
- Ethnic group.rels
- Predominantly Russian Orthodox Christianityalso Shamanism
- Ethnic group.related c
- other Chukotko-Kamchatkan peoples
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 8743
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- Koryaks
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13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Origin
- History
- Culture
- Transportation
- Religion
- Environment
- See also
- References
- Works cited
- General references
- Further reading
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thumb|300px|Settlement of Koryaks in the Far Eastern Federal District by urban and rural settlements in %, 2010 census Koryaks () 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. 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. 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.