The Russian Old-Settlers in the Arctic Coast of Eastern Siberia: Family Name Diversity in the Context of Their Origin

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Aisen V. Solovyev, Tuyara V. Borisova, Aleksandra M. Cherdonova, Georgii P. Romanov, Fedor M. Teryutin, Vera G. Pshennikova, Nyurgun N. Gotovtsev, Olga V. Vasileva, Sargylana E. Nikitina, Nikolay A. Barashkov, Anatoly N. Alekseev, Sardana A. Fedorova
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Russian old-settlers; indigenous people; family names; Russkoe Ust’ye; Arctic Ocean; Eastern Siberia; Sakha Republic; Russia; Arctic; Sakha; Zashiversk; Chukchi; Evenks; Evens; Yakuts; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910895

The populations of the Arctic Ocean coast in Eastern Siberia (Russia) are represented by a multicultural conglomerate of peoples of different origins: Paleo-Asiatic (Chukchi), Uralic (Yukaghirs), Tungusic (Evenks, Evens), Turkic (Yakuts, Dolgans), and Slavic (Russian explorers), who inhabited this t...