Chuvans

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Chuvans

Total population
900 (2020 census)
Regions with significant populations
Russia	900[1]
Languages
Russian, Chukchi; formerly Chuvan
Religion
Russian Orthodoxy
Related ethnic groups
Yukaghir, Koryaks, Chukchi, Evens

Chuvans (Russian: чуванцы) are one of the forty or so "Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East" recognized by the Russian government. Most Chuvans today live within Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in the far northeast of Russia. Based on first-hand field research by several ethnographers in the 1990s, people who self-identify as Chuvans seem to do so by living in small villages and in the tundra in areas that are primarily associated with reindeer herding.