Chuvans are an indigenous people of the northeast of Siberia; currently, they live in settlements in the middle and lower reaches of the Anadyr. Their native tongue that had probably been closely related to Yukaghir is lost. The 2010 Census recorded 1,002 Chuvans in Russia, the 2020 Census recorded 900 Chuvans with most of them (742) living in the Chukotka autonomous area.
Due to Chukotka’s unique nature, climate and geography, its economy is based on a combination of high-tech extracting industry and traditional occupations of Chukotka’s indigenous small-numbered peoples (reindeer herding, sea-hunting, fishing, etc.).
Both spiritual and material Chuvan culture constitutes a complex mosaic of Yukaghir, Koryak, Russian, Chukchi, and Even elements. It is hard to identify something specifically Chuvan in this combination, and then again, Chuvan culture stands out because of and is marked precisely by its eclectic (catch-all) nature.