Pochegor

The Pochegor were an Evenki clan of the mountain taiga south of the Aldan, along the Stanovoy ranges that divide the Lena and Amur systems. Their name is recorded in Transbaikalian records among the Barguzin Khamnigans and the Yeravnino clans, Evenki-origin lineages that took up horse and cattle pastoralism and were gradually absorbed into the Buryat and Khamnigan world.

In the 1600s Cossack parties moving from Yakutsk toward the Amur, including those of Poyarkov in 1643 and Khabarov in 1667, crossed these hunting grounds, and the clan became yasak payers. Some related Evenki groups later migrated south into Mongolia and Manchuria.