Geographic distribution of northern peoples of the USSR, 1970 and 1979

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Knapp, Gunnar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1992
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Evenki; Koryaki; Dolgany; Yakuty; Chukchi; eskimo*; khanty; Nganasan*; Polar Record; Mansi
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740002026x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740002026X

Abstract Data on the geographic distribution of native peoples of the Soviet North, published for the 1970and 1979 censuses (Tsentral'noyestatisticheskoye upravleniye SSSR 1973,1984), are summarized by administrative division and nationality for comparison with data for 1959, 1970 and 1979 given in Polar Record 20 (125): 169–70 (1980). Of the Chukchi, Dolgany, Eskimosy, Itel'meny, Koryaki, Mansi, Nganasany, Saamy, and Yakuty, more than 70% were reported to live within a single northern administrative division in 1979. More widely distributed were the Aleuty, Evenki, Eveny, Karely, Khanty, Sel'kupy and Yukagiry. The total population of northern native peoples was 915,096 in 1970 and 951, 471 in 1979.