Apuka
TheApukaare one of the nine subdivisions of theKoryaks.[clarification needed]In pre-Soviet Russia they were considered to be a distinct people. They speak their own dialect of theKoryak language.They live primarily along the coast of theBering Sea.
Sources
[edit]- Wixman, Ronald.The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook.(Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1984) p. 12
- Olson, James S.,An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires.(Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994) p. 37