The Arctic, northern Europe and Russia
Itelmen
Lands
Tigilsky District on the west coast of Kamchatka Krai, with smaller groups in Chukotka and Magadan Oblast, Russia
Countries Russian Federation
Facts 3
Culture
The self-name Itelmen means an inhabitant of dry land, a human being.
Source: The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire (Institute of the Estonian Language archive), The Itelmens (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Land
Fishing, above all for salmon, is the traditional Itelmen livelihood on Kamchatka.
Source: RAIPON (Association of Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East), Ительмены (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Language
Western Itelmen is the Itelmen language that has been kept to the present day.
Source: RAIPON (Association of Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East), Ительмены (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
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