Olyuben

The Olyuben were a tundra Yukaghir tribal group of the lower Indigirka River in northeastern Siberia. When Cossack fur collectors entered the region in the seventeenth century, the tribe was led by two princely brothers, Morle and Burulga; the meaning of its name is not recorded.

Like the other Yukaghir clans they were registered as payers of fur tribute, but the smallpox epidemics that swept the lower Indigirka in the second half of the 1600s struck the small, scattered tundra band hardest. By 1700 the Olyuben had ceased to appear in the tribute records as a separate people, their lineages dying out or merging into the surrounding Yukaghir clans.