Yugh people (pronounced "yook"; often written
Yug) were part of an
indigenousThe term indigenous peoples can be used to describe any ethnic group of people who inhabit a geographic region with which they have the earliest known historical connection, alongside more recent immigrants who have populated the region and may be greater in number...
group believed to be survivors of an ancient people who originally lived throughout central
SiberiaSiberia , is the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the USSR from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the...
. The Yugh people lived along the
Yenisei RiverYenisei is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and at 5,539 km is the fifth longest river in the world. Rising in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course to the Yenisei Gulf in the Kara Sea, draining a large part of central Siberia, the longest stream following the...
from Yeniseisk to the mouth of the Dupches River.
Previously the Yughs were considered part of the northern group of
Ket peopleKets are a Siberian people who speak the Ket language. In Imperial Russia they were called Ostyaks, without differentiating them from several other Siberian peoples. Later they became known as Yenisey ostyaks, because they lived in the middle and lower basin of the Yenisei River in the Krasnoyarsk...
, but in the 1960's the Yugh were distinguished from the Ket, having their own distinct, although related
Yugh languageYugh is a Yeniseian language, closely related to Ket, formerly spoken by the Yugh people, one of the southern groups along the Yenisei River in central Siberia. In the past it was regarded as a dialect of the Ket language, which was considered to be a language isolate...
and customs. By the late 1980's the Yugh people, along with their language, had disappeared as a separate ethnic group.
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Yugh people (pronounced "yook"; often written
Yug) were part of an
indigenousThe term indigenous peoples can be used to describe any ethnic group of people who inhabit a geographic region with which they have the earliest known historical connection, alongside more recent immigrants who have populated the region and may be greater in number...
group believed to be survivors of an ancient people who originally lived throughout central
SiberiaSiberia , is the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the USSR from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the...
. The Yugh people lived along the
Yenisei RiverYenisei is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and at 5,539 km is the fifth longest river in the world. Rising in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course to the Yenisei Gulf in the Kara Sea, draining a large part of central Siberia, the longest stream following the...
from Yeniseisk to the mouth of the Dupches River.
Recent history
Previously the Yughs were considered part of the northern group of
Ket peopleKets are a Siberian people who speak the Ket language. In Imperial Russia they were called Ostyaks, without differentiating them from several other Siberian peoples. Later they became known as Yenisey ostyaks, because they lived in the middle and lower basin of the Yenisei River in the Krasnoyarsk...
, but in the 1960's the Yugh were distinguished from the Ket, having their own distinct, although related
Yugh languageYugh is a Yeniseian language, closely related to Ket, formerly spoken by the Yugh people, one of the southern groups along the Yenisei River in central Siberia. In the past it was regarded as a dialect of the Ket language, which was considered to be a language isolate...
and customs. By the late 1980's the Yugh people, along with their language, had disappeared as a separate ethnic group. By the early 1990's the Yugh language was considered extinct, as only two or three non-fluent Yugh language speakers remained. The Yugh people and their extinct relatives are referred to as
Yeniseians by linguists and ethnographers.
In 1991 the ethnic population consisted of 10 to 15 individuals in the Turukhan Region of the
Krasnoyarsk KraiKrasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subject of Russia . It is the second largest federal subject after the Sakha Republic, occupying an area of , which is 13% of the country's total territory...
at the Vorogovo settlement.
The 2002 Census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in all of Russia.