Adyan

The Adyan are the Even, or Lamut, reindeer clans of the tundra between the lower Lena and the Olenyok. Seventeenth-century Russian records call them the Olenyok Tungus of the Adyan tribe, and between 1639 and 1664 the fort clerks recorded their feuds with the Vanyady, ancestors of the Nganasans, to the west.

They lived as nomadic reindeer herders, hunting wild reindeer and fishing along the Arctic rivers, and the Even speech of their descendants is classed as the Sakkyryr dialect, named after the Sakkyryr River. With the rest of the Evens they came under Russian fur-tribute rule in the seventeenth century and were counted as Orthodox by the nineteenth.