Koryaks are an Indigenous people of the Russian Far East, who live immediately north of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Kamchatka Krai and inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea. The cultural borders of the Koryaks include Tigilsk in the south and the Anadyr basin in the north.
Koryak ceremony of starting the New Fire
Koryak shaman woman (circa 1900)
Lamellar armour traditionally worn by the Koryak people (circa 1900)
Koryak women's coat
The Russian Far East is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is administered as a part of the Far Eastern Federal District, which is located between Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia and the Pacific Ocean. The area's largest city is Khabarovsk, followed by Vladivostok. The region shares land borders with the countries of Mongolia, China, and North Korea to its south, as well as maritime boundaries with Japan to its southeast, and with the United States along the Bering Strait to its northeast.
Sikhote-Alin is the home to Amur tigers
On the Amur in Khabarovsk
Koryaksky volcano in Kamchatka
Vladivostok in the early 1900s