Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Retrospective Geography of Reindeer Husbandry as a Form of Traditional Use of the Tundra and Taiga Resources in the North of the Krasnoyarsk Territory

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Retrospective Geography of Reindeer Husbandry as a Form of Traditional Use of the Tundra and Taiga Resources in the North of the Krasnoyarsk Territory

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Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2022 15 (2)
Authors: Klokov, Konstantin B.
Contact information: Klokov, Konstantin B.: Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) Russian Academy of Sciences Saint-Petersburg State University St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0002-6149-5778
Keywords: tundra reindeer husbandry; taiga reindeer usbandry; indigenous peoples; Siberia; Taimyr; Evenkia; regional trends in the number of reindeer; ethno-economic areas; Dolgans; Nganasans; Nenets; Evenks
Abstract: Krasnoyarsk Territory is one of the most important regions of traditional reindeer husbandry of the indigenous peoples of the North of Russia. The purpose of the article is to show what changes have occurred in the geographical distribution of the domesticated reindeer population in the Krasnoyarsk Territory over the past decades and what reasons they were associated with. It presents the results of the analysis of statistical data on changes in the livestock of domesticated reindeer in various ethno-economic areas of the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the Soviet and post-Soviet times. In Soviet times, the number of domesticated reindeer in the Krasnoyarsk Territory reached 188 thousand heads, but during the period of market reforms it dropped to 45.5 thousand. At present, it has grown to 134.7 thousand heads, but its geographical distribution has changed greatly. The area of continuous distribution of tundra reindeer husbandry narrowed down to the left side of the Enisei River, where the Nenets are engaged in it. On the rest of the territory, only four local areas of reindeer husbandry have survived: the Dolgans’ local area in the eastern Taimyr, the Evenks’ area in the vicinity of Surinda village, the Evenks’ area in the vicinity of the Soviet Lakes and the Yakuts’ area near the Essei Lake. Reindeer husbandry survived mainly along the periphery of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where it is advantaged by informal ties between reindeer breeders of neighboring regions
Pages: 265–279
DOI: 10.17516/1997-1370-0910
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/145360

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