Social and cultural dynamics of the peoples of the Soviet north

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Savoskul, S. S., Armstrong, Terence
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1978
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Evenki; Koryaki; Dolgany; Novaya Zhizn'; Chukchi; Chukotka; eskimo*; Gilyak; khanty; Nganasan*; Polar Record; reindeer husbandry; samoyed*; taiga; Tundra; Mansi; vogul
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740000187x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740000187X

The vast expanses of tundra and taiga stretching from Kol'skiy Poluostrov to Chukotka have long been utilized by small ethnic groups with a chiefly northern economy—reindeer husbandry, hunting, fishing, sea mammal hunting. At present, judging by the data of the all-Union census of 1970, their t...