Ethnic and demographic situation of the Tungus of South Yakutia in the early 20thcentury

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of the ethnic and demographic situation among the Tungus of South Yakutia. The relevance of the topic is due to the fact that the work on the study of the ethno-demographic aspects of the development of the Tungus is not proactive enough. Questions about the Tungus are attracting increased attention among historians, ethnologists and demographers, as well as among state authorities. All studies of the demographic development of the Tungus are of interest. The article, based on the data of the population census of the Russian Empire in 1897 and statistical indicators for Yakutia in 1917, the information of the Yakut regional administration for 1901, the materials of the Nelkan-Ayan expedition of 1903 consider the ethnodemographic processes of the Tungus.It is noted that the trends of ethnodemographic development among the Tungus in the early 20thcentury. The features of the ethnic and demographic development of the Tungus in the areas of their historical settlement are shown. Tungus or Evenks belong to the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North. Since 1931, the Tungus have been called Evenks. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time it analyzes the ethnic and demographic aspects of the development of the Tungus of South Yakutia.