Nalyagir

The Nalyagir were an Evenki clan of the upper Lena country, in the forests between the Lena and the Vitim east of Verkholensk. After Cossacks built the Verkholensk ostrog on the Lena in 1641, Russian records listed them among the local Tungus clans, with their Kuleng branch, named after the Kulenga River, and their Tutur branch.

Like other Evenki they were reindeer-breeding taiga hunters organized in exogamous clans and paying fur tribute to the Siberian forts. From the eighteenth century Nalyagir families joined the forming Khamnigan groups, mixing with Buryat and Mongol pastoralists; their descendants were counted among the Armat Khamnigans of the Tsingidin grouping.