the Tuvan Keshdims, Baits, and Teleks. This was the beginning of Mongol suzerainty over the Tuvans. After the collapse of the Naiman Khanate, Tuvans moved...

Tibetan and Russian. There are small diaspora groups of Tuvans that speak distinct dialects of Tuvan in China and Mongolia. While this history focuses on...

subgroup of the Tuvans living in Todzhinsky District of Tuva Republic. The Tozhu Tuvans are reindeer herders. The language of Tozhu Tuvan people is a subdialect...

has been exploited by the Tuvans for about ten years now and is also located in disputed territory, so the demand for the Tuvan government to return it...

Tuvan or Tuvinian can refer to: Of or pertaining to Tuva, a federal subject of Russia Tuvans or Tuvinians, a Turkic ethnic group living in southern Siberia...

into the former in 1944. A majority of the population are ethnic Tuvans who speak Tuvan as their native tongue, while Russian is spoken natively by the...

The Tuvan Autonomous Oblast was an autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union, created on 11 October 1944 following the annexation of the Tuvan People's Republic...

exclusively in Russian by the 1990s, Tuvans remained the largest ethnicity in Tuva (approximately 206,000 residents were of Tuvan ethnicity, and 98,000 were of...

practice the technique as well. The popularity of throat singing among Tuvans seems to have arisen as a result of geographic location and culture. The...

The akşa was the currency of the Tuvan People's Republic (Tannu-Tuva) between 1934 and 1944 and was equal to the Soviet ruble upon introduction. It was...