Russia Culture Ethnicities Tungusic Nomad People of Siberia Dog stamp 1933 A-11

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Nice rare stamp. Tungusic peoples are the peoples who speak Tungusic languages. They inhabit Eastern Siberia and are often contrasted with Mongols. The first European description of the Tungusic people was by the Dutch traveller Isaac Massa in 1612. The word originated in Tunguska, a region of eastern Siberia bounded on the west by the Tunguska river and on the east by the Pacific ocean. The largest of the Tungusic peoples are the Manchu who number around 10 million. They are originally from Manchuria, which is now Northeast China but following their conquest of China in the 17th century, they have been almost totally assimilated into the main Han Chinese population of China. This process accelerated especially during the 20th century. The non-assimilated culture and language is still present in parts of northern China. Evenks live in the Evenk Autonomous Okrug of Russia. The Udege are a people who live in the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai regions, also in Russia.