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Chulyms

The Chulyms (Чулымцы in Russian; self-designation: Чулымские люди, or Chulymian people) are a Turkic people in the Tomsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia.

They used to live along the middle and lower reaches of the Chulym River (tributary of the Ob River). The Russians used to call them the Chulymian Tatars. The Chulyms appeared in the 17th - 18th century as a result of interbreeding of some of the Turkic groups, who had migrated to the East after the fall of the Siberian Khanate, partially Teleuts and Yenisei Kirgiz with the small groups of Selkups and Kets. The Chulyms were not a nomadic tribe. They adopted farming and cattle breeding from the Russian peasants in that area. Most of the Chulyms' descendants blended with the Khakas and Russians.

According to a census, there were 750 Chulyms in Russia in the 1990s. They speak Chulym-Turkic language and confess Russian Orthodoxy.

Last updated: 01-04-2007 01:18:57
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