Hunting whales with harpoons is an ancient tradition that the indigenous Chukchi people of Russia's frozen northeast have retained to this day, but global warming is forcing changes to their ...

Yuri Rytkheu, the best known of Chukchi writers, was born in 1930 to a family of hunters and trappers, in Uelen, a village on the coast of what is now Russia’s Chukotka Peninsula. He studied ...

Near Amguema, on the Chukchi Peninsula in Russia's Far East, a woman uses wooden and stone tools to soften a reindeer hide in a photo taken in August 1991. The nomadic Chukchi people herd reindeer, ...

Siberian-born author Rytkheu chronicles a Canadian sailor's life among the Chukchi people of northeastern Siberia in a lyrical, instructional novel that reads like an adventure story wrapped around an ...

The Chukchi reindeer breeders are peculiar people. They are nomads. Reindeers are their welfare, the purport of life. The mother-reindeer is the main divine being; it protects the Chukchi from ...

People in comfortable cities can barely imagine that the foggy windy land of Chukotka can be someone's home MOSCOW, November 17. /TASS Correspondent Elena Sycheva/. I live in a big city, I have got ...

MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS Correspondent Ulyana Lavtsevich/. Alexandra Nypevgi, managing a bone-carving workshop in the Chukchi village of Uelen, told us with the modesty, typical for northern peoples ...