Nyuril'ts

The Nyuril'ts are recorded as an Evenki tribe of the far northern taiga, whose name has been proposed as one origin of the place name Norilsk, in the Pyasina river country of the Taimyr. Like other Evenki groups they were reindeer hunters and herders, drawn into the Russian fur-tax network after Cossacks opened the Siberian river routes in the 1600s.