Vargagaits

The Vargagaits are an Evenki clan band of the taiga east of the Yenisei, around the Yeruda, Teya and Chirimba rivers in what is now the Severo-Yeniseysky district of Krasnoyarsk Krai. They were nomadic reindeer herders and hunters whose clans fell under Cossack yasak collection when Russian power reached the Yenisei taiga in the 1600s.