Evens
The Evens or Eveny (formerly known as the Lamuts a term meaning "ocean people" in Even) (Эвены in Russian) are a people in Siberia and the Russian Far East. They live in some of the regions of the Magadan Oblast and Kamchatka Krai and northern parts of Sakha east of the Lena River. According to the 2002 census, there were 19,071 Evens in Russia. They speak their own Even language, one of the Tungusic languages. The Evens are close to the Evenks by their origins and culture. Officially, they were considered to be of Orthodox faith since the 19th century, but the Evens managed to preserve different forms of non-Christian beliefs, such as shamanism and the like. ″Traditional Eveni life is centred upon nomadic pastoralism, of domesticated reindeer, supplemented with hunting, fishing and animal-trapping. ″ There were 104 Evens in Ukraine, 19 of whom speaking Eveni. (Ukr. Cen. 2001)
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