Udege people
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1630 CE to 2215 CE
Udege are a people who live in the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai regions in Russia, the native population of this region.
They live along the tributaries of the Ussuri, Amur, Kungari, and Anyuy Rivers.
The Udege speak the Udege language, which belongs to the Tungusic language family.
Their religious beliefs include animism, animal worship, and shamanism.
The Udege are mainly engaged in hunting, fishing, and ginseng harvesting.
According to the 2002 census, there were 1,657 Udege in Russia, a slight increase from 1,500 in 1970.
According to the 2010 census there were 1,496 Udege in Russia.
They are one of the closest ethnic groups to the Manchu and Nanai, and are possibly of Jianzhou Jurchen origin.
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The aboriginals of the territory on which modern Vladivostok is located are the Udege minority, and a sub-minority called the Taz which emerged through members of the indigenous Udege mixing with the nearby Chinese and Hezhe.
The region had been part of many states, such as the Mohe, Balhae Kingdom, Liao Dynasty, Jīn Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and various other Chinese dynasties, before Russia acquired the entire Maritime Province and the island of Sakhalin by the Treaty of Beijing (1860).
Qing China, which has just lost the Opium War with Britain, is unable to defend the region.
The Manchu emperors of China, the Qing Dynasty, ban Han Chinese from most of Manchuria including the Vladivostok area—it is only visited by illegal gatherers of ginseng and sea cucumbers.
Warrant officer Nikolay Komarov with twenty-eight soldiers and two non-commissioned officers under his command have been brought from Nikolayevsk-on-Amur by ship to construct the first buildings of the future city.