Yandin

The Yandin were a Yukaghir tribal group of the far northern Siberian tundra, living between the lower Lena and the Yana along the Omoloy River, where they spoke the Yan, or Detkil, variant of Yukaghir. Their name may derive from the Yukaghir word yande, a goose, or from a local prince called Uyanda.

By about 1650 Russian tribute books counted fifty tribute-paying Yandin men, perhaps two hundred people in all, under the label of the stone Yukaghirs. Epidemics, feuds with neighboring Even and Evenki bands and the burden of fur tribute thinned them during the colonial period. The Yandin eventually vanished from the records as a separate group, their descendants absorbed into surrounding peoples.