Tuvans in China
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Tuvans in China live in the Altai aimak of Xinjiang -Uighur autonomous region of Chinese People's Republic, in picturesque mountains and steppes of the Altai Mountains. This territory borders in the north with Russia, in the west - Kazakhstan, and east - with Mongolia.
Representatives of various ethnic backgrounds mingle in the Altai aimak: Chinese, Kazakhs, Dunkans, Mongols, Uighurs. Many Kazakhs can be counted in the compact Tuvan settlements (Ak-Khaba, Khanas, Khom, Ala-Khaak, Kok-Dogai). Tuvan families also live in towns Altai, Burchin, and Khaba.
Igor Irgit, who was the head of State committee for foreign economic connections at the time, was the first one to visit the Chinese Tuvans in 1992, and Marina Mongush, the scholar - ethnographer, visited them in1993.
In June of 2009, when I was working at Stambul University, a trip to the Chinese Tuvans was planned, and the airplane tickets had already been purchased. However in the middle of July, in Urumchi, the administrative center of Xinjiang, the famous conflict between the Uighurs and the Chinese started. Emergency situation was declared in that part of the country. The trip had to be postponed.
Source: TuvaOnline
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