Yukagir
Yukagir
Selo in Sakha Republic, Russia
Yukagir (Russian: Юкагир; Yakut: Дьүкээгир, Cükeegir) is a rural locality (a selo), the only inhabited locality and the administrative center of Yukagirsky National (Nomadic) Rural Okrug of Ust-Yansky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 798 kilometers (496 mi) from Deputatsky, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 154,[2] of whom 84 were male and 70 female, up from 106 recorded during the 2002 Census.[1] The village shares its name with the Yukaghir people who are indigenous to this region.