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The sedentarization of the nomadic population was one of the directions of the USSR policy in the North. The transfer to sedentary had been completed in many northern regions. But in Yakutia number of nomadic groups were continued to rise in 1980s. There is an important question – how many of the Indigenous peoples of the North in Yakutia had been keeping nomadic way of life in Socialism period. The task of this study is to make the socio-demographic characteristics of the Evens-nomad in the late Soviet period. Of...