REINDEER BREEDING OF THE EVENS OF THE OKHOTSK REGION: HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

Reindeer breeding has been main life-supporting economic activity for the Evens of the Okhotsk region of the Khabarovsk Territory for many centuries. The system of nomadic economy that has developed throughout several centuries and incorporated, rational ways of reindeer breeding, was in many aspects similar to the general northern one, but it had its own local features. During the period from the 19th to the beginning of the 21st centuries the reindeer trade of the Okhotsk Evens has gone through different stages of its development and is currently in a difficult situation.