Khoromboy

The Khoromboy were a Yukaghir tribal group of the Laptev Sea coast, roaming the lower Omoloy and Yana, where they spoke the Yan, or Detkil, dialect of Yukaghir. According to the ethnographer Boris Dolgikh, their name combines the Yukaghir words koriel, a wolf, and omo, a tribe, so that Khoromboy meant something like the wolf clan.

When Russian parties first met Yukaghir bands on the Yana in the 1630s, the Khoromboy were a small group of about a hundred and ten people, sometimes called Omoloi after their river. Tribute, disease and pressure from reindeer-herding neighbors thinned them under Russian rule, and the Khoromboy eventually dissolved into Evenki and partly Nganasan communities.