4-557: Naukan can refer to: Naukan people , ethnic group in Northeastern Siberia Naukan Yupik language , their language Naukan (village) , settlement in far eastern Russia Naukan, Iran (disambiguation) , several settlements in Iran Naukan (crater) , crater on Mars See also [ edit ] Naukane , Hawaiian chief Topics referred to by
8-621: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Naukan people The Naukan , also known as the Naukanski , are a Siberian Yupik people and an Indigenous people of Siberia . They live in the Chukotka Autonomous Region of eastern Russia . The Naukan Yupik language is a Yupik language , belonging to the Eskimo–Aleut languages . Many Naukan people now speak
12-798: The Chukchi language . Traditionally Naukan people hunted sea mammals . Guests traveled from remote settlements to participate in pol'a' , the month-long Naukan whale festival. Archaeological evidence places the Naukan on the Chukotka Peninsula off the Bering Sea back 2,000 years. They used to live on Big Diomede Island and Cape Dezhnev in the Bering Strait . The Soviet Union relocated Naukan people from their traditional coastal village of Naukan in 1958. They now reside in
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