At the beginning of 2024, a short video of a person dressed in ethnic attire walking a reindeer down the street went viral on various social media platforms both domestically and internationally. It ...

The north of Russia conceals innumerable riches such as gold and diamonds – but also Indigenous cultures. The Evenki are Indigenous people of reindeer herders who guided Russian prospectors to mineral ...

The native home of the Evenki, the most widely scattered “nomads of the mountains”, is near Lake Baikal in southern Siberia. Imperial Russia of the 17th century began expanding ruthlessly into this ...

Chi Zijian's epic novel (translated by Bruce Humes) is narrated by a nameless woman of the Evenki people, who have traditionally lived as nomads in the far north of China, on the border with Russia.

The Last Quarter of the Moon is the first novel from award-winning Chinese novelist Chi Zijian to be translated into English. It is an atmospheric modern folk-tale, the saga of the Evenki clan of ...

Co-written by an anthropologist and a reindeer herder (BRISK project co-researcher) on the basis of their field materials, this book offers documentation and analysis of complex traditional ...

ST. PETERSBURG, February 26. /TASS/. Scientists of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the first time conducted a large-scale study of reindeer breeding ...

The Evenki are an Indigenous people native to Russia's far-flung region of Sakha. Their ancestors inhabited the vast tundra since the 5th century, with populations also in northern China. See how the ...