Evenkia Voyage Tips and guide

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Evenkia (Russian: Эвенки́я eh-vehn-KEE-yuh) is a vast Siberian region in Krasnoyarsk Krai, the size of Turkey, but with a very sparse population — a mere 0.023 people per km², less than 20,000 people in total. Evenkia borders Taymyria to the north, Yakutia to the east, Irkutsk Oblast to the southeast, and the Krasnoyarsk region to the southwest and west.

• 61.67777896.3833331 Baykit
• 64.283333100.2166672 Tura – the regional hub; a town of 6,000

• 60.7315101.9681 Tungussky Nature Reserve — visitable by a permit obtained from the nearby village of Vanavara, this large patch of taiga in southeast Evenkia has a number of hiking trails, all leading to the impact site of the 1908 Tunguska Event.

Evenkia's population is about 60% ethnic Russian, but is named after its nomadic Evenk minority (~22% of the population), a small ethnic group that traditionally lives off reindeer herding, related to the Manchu of Northeast China and others in the Russian Far East.

• Sakha Republic