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Oroks, sometimes called Uilta, are a people in the Sakhalin Oblast in Russia. The Orok language belongs to the Southern group of the Tungusic language family. In the 2002 Russian census, there were 34
Ulta people, before 1945
Red fox fur mittens of the Orok people, 19th century.
Sakhalin
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Sakhalin is an island in Northeast Asia which is a part of Russia. Its north coast lies 6.5 km off the southeastern coast of Khabarovsk Krai, while its southern tip lies 40 kilometres north of the Jap
Oroks
…The Orok language belongs to the Southern group of the Tungusic language family. In the 2002 Russian census, there were 346 Oroks living in Northern Sakhalin by the Okhotsk Sea and Southern Sakhalin in the district by the city of Poronaysk. In the 2010 census there were 295 Oroks in Russia. The name Orok is…
Anton Chekhov museum in Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Russia. It is the house where he stayed in Sakhalin during 1890.
A panorama photograph of Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky taken c. 1923
A bird's eye view of Toyohara c. 1930s
Central part of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 2009