Dolgans (Russian: Долганы; Dolgan: долган, дулҕан, Һака, romanized: dolgan, dulğan, haka ; Yakut: тыа-киһи, romanized: tıa-kihi) are a Turkicized Tungusic ethnic group who mostly inhabit Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.

The Dolgan language is a severely endangered Turkic language with 930 speakers, [2] spoken in the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia. [3] The speakers are known as the Dolgans . The word "Dolgan", derived from Evenki, means 'tribe living on the middle reaches of the river'.

Dolgan, Turkic-speaking people constituting the basic population of the Taymyr autonomous okrug, which is far above the Arctic Circle in north-central Russia. They numbered about 6,000 in the late 20th century.

The Dolgans have the youngest Arctic culture, which only was recognised in the 19th Century. Scientists believe that the Dolgan evolved from a mixture of three other northern Siberian cultures, the Yakut, Evenk and Nenets. Their territory consists largely of open tundra and has a particularly harsh climate. The Khatanga area, for example, has ...

The Dolgan are probably the most recent example within the Russian Federation of the formation of an independent ethnic group. Their consolidation began in the nineteenth century. At the time of the 1926-1927 census, the Dolgan were represented by nine ethnographic groupings.

2018年6月8日 · Dolgan ETHNONYMS: Sakha (Khaka), Tya or Tya Kikhi (forest person, forest man) Identification and Location. The Dolgan inhabit the Taimyr Peninsula and the left bank of the lower Yenisei River, across from the town of Dudinka.

The Dolgan people today are one of the most politically powerful groups in their territory, and many senior officials of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug are Dolgans. Political activism is especially important for native peoples as they begin to address the social and economic prob- lems which have resulted from discriminatory government policies.

At the basis of traditional Dolgan beliefs is the veneration of nature and of a multitude of spirits that control the hunt, the increase and safety of humans and cattle, and the preservation of life and the family hearth.

The Dolgan are one of the largest and most powerful of all the tribes of the Kurgan people, renowned for their fractious nature and insular hatred of other Northmen. Such is their location at the very borders of the civilised lands that it puts them in conflicts with marauding Chaos armies...

Dolgan folk poetry includes riddles, fairy-tales, historical legends, bylinas, and stories of everyday life. Fairy tales about animals are especially popular. As to Dolgans’ fine arts, it was applied. All their clothes for holidays and weekdays were decorated …