Anauls

The Anauls were a Yukaghir tribal group who lived along the upper Anadyr River in the far northeast of Siberia and spoke the Chuvan, or coastal, variant of Yukaghir. Unlike nomadic reindeer groups, they were settled river fishermen and hunters; their name derives from a Chukchi word meaning the people living on the Enmyvaam.

They had a reputation as the most warlike of the Yukaghir clans, yet their settled camps made them an easy target for Russian fur collectors.

Fighting began in 1649 when Dezhnev's detachment reached the Anadyr, and in 1650 the chief Kogyunya's men killed nine Russian traders before Dezhnev stormed their fortified camp. Rivalry with neighboring groups, epidemics and Tsarist tribute policy scattered and reduced the Anauls, and they disappeared as a distinct people in the colonial period.