Çamça

Chamcha lies in the Lena country of the Sakha Republic, near the middle Lena, where the great river runs through forest and broad river terraces. Russian parties reached the Lena in the 1620s and 1630s and reached its delta in 1655, using the river to carry supplies and collect tribute between the forts. Sakha herders kept cattle and horses on the river meadows, while Evenki hunters followed game through the forest, moving by boat in summer and by sledge in winter.