Chuvanskoye is a rural locality (a selo) in Anadyrsky District

Anadyrsky District

Anadyrsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the six in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is located in the interior portion of the autonomous okrug and in terms of administrative divisions borders with Chaunsky District in the northwest, Iultinsky District in the...

 of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug , or Chukotka , is a federal subject of Russia located in the Russian Far East.Chukotka has a population of 53,824 according to the 2002 Census, and a surface area of . The principal town and the administrative center is Anadyr...

. Russia

Russia

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. Municipally, the village is incorporated as Chuvanskoye Rural Settlement. It is located west of Markovo

Markovo, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Markovo is a village situated near the head of small-boat navigation of the Anadyr River, near the center of the Anadyrsky District of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, part of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...

 on the banks of the Yeropol River, a tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

 of the Anadyr River

Anadyr River

Anadyr is a river in the far northeast Siberia which flows into Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea and drains much of the interior of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Its basin corresponds to the Anadyrsky District of Chukotka....

. Population, as of 2006: 290, up from 217 reported for 2005 in an environmental impact report for the Kupol gold project. Of the people living in the village in 2005, all of them were of indigenous origin.

History

There are two theories regarding the origin of the name. The first states that Chuvanskoye is simply named after the Chuvans themselves, whereas the second theory suggests that the name is derived from an older tribe, the Cha'achen, who used to live in the area and were a Yukaghir tribe from which the Chukchi

Chukchi people

The Chukchi, or Chukchee , ) are an indigenous people inhabiting the Chukchi Peninsula and the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean within the Russian Federation. They speak the Chukchi language...

 themselves eventually developed.

Chuvanskoye was founded in 1930 as a collective farm

Kolkhoz

A kolkhoz , plural kolkhozy, was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms . The word is a contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство, or "collective farm", while sovkhoz is a contraction of советское хозяйство...

, which in the 1960s was merged with the collective farm in Markovo.

Demographics

Chuvanskoye and the lands surrounding it are the main area of settlement in the autonomous okrug

Okrug

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 for the Chuvans

Chuvans

Chuvans are one of the forty or so "less-numerous peoples of the North" recognized by the Russian government. Most Chuvans today live within Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in the far northeast of Russia...

 ethnic group, a branch of the Yukaghir

Yukaghir

The Yukaghir, or Yukagirs , деткиль ) are a people in East Siberia, living in the basin of the Kolyma River.-Region:The Tundra Yukaghirs live in the Lower Kolyma region in the Sakha Republic; the Taiga Yukaghirs in the Upper Kolyma region in the Sakha Republic and in Srednekansky District of...

people, who lived near the Anadyr River.