Information AboutChulyms |
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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 Nomad ic tribe. They adopted Farming and cattle breeding from the Russian Peasant s in that area. Most of the Chulyms' descendants blended with the Khakas and Russians. According to the 2002 Census , there were 656 Chulyms in Russia. They speak Chulym-Turkic language and adhere to Russian Orthodoxy mixed with their original Shamanist beliefs. |