Tugochar

The Tugochar were an Evenki-speaking Tungus clan group of the Tompo and upper Aldan taiga in eastern Yakutia, around the Khandyga river. After the founding of Yakutsk in 1632, cossack parties brought the Tungus rods of the Aldan basin under the fur tribute, or yasak; they lived as mobile elk hunters and reindeer herders in skin and birch-bark tents.