Obgints

The Obgints are an Evenki clan band of the Vilyuy plateau in western Yakutia, whose grounds centred on the Syuldyukar country, the seat of the Sadyn Evenki national nasleg in present-day Mirninsky district. Like other Vilyuy Evenki they lived by reindeer herding and hunting and were brought into the Russian yasak system during the eastward Cossack advance of the 1600s.