Siberia is a vast region spanning the northern part of the Asian continent and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia. As a result of the Russian conquest of Siberia and of the subsequent population mo
A group of Kachin Khakas
Selenga Buryats
A Nenets family in Novaya Zemlya
A Nanai family in traditional garb
Circumpolar peoples
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Circumpolar peoples and Arctic peoples are umbrella terms for the various Indigenous peoples living around the North Pole.
Chukchi, one of many Indigenous peoples of Siberia. Representation of a Chukchi family by Louis Choris (1816)
A group of igloos forming an Inuit village, 1824, by George Francis Lyon
Sami people in Norway, c. 1900, painted by Wilhelm Peters
Russia's Arctic coastline from the White Sea to the Bering Strait had been explored and settled by Pomors, Russian settlers from Novgorod.