Humanities & Social Sciences 10 (2016 9) 2482-2489 ~ ~ ~ УДК 391(=512.157) On the Issue of Tungus Component in the Traditional Clothing of Dolgans: Even-Dolgan Parallels Anatoly I. Savvinov* Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North of SB RAS 1, Petrovskogo Str., Yakutsk, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), 677007, Russia Received 09.03.2016, received in revised form 12.05.2016, accepted 21.07.2016 The Dolgans is the northernmost small-numbered Turkic speaking people, mainly living in the North of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, as well as in Anabar ulus of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). <...> Dolgans’ traditional activities are reindeer herding, hunting and fishing. <...> The number of Taimyr and Anabar Dolgans according to the latest population census of 2010 is 7885 people. <...> Typological features of traditional Dolgan clothing are studied in the article. <...> Despite its indigenous basis, in Dolgan clothing, as well as in Dolgan culture as a whole, the presence of different ethnic traditions can be quite clearly traced. <...> According to the comparative analysis undertaken, the archaic elements of the traditional Dolgan clothing are closely related to the ancient Tungus tradition. <...> The presence of archaic Tungus elements in the traditional Dolgan clothing is largely determined by the ancient ethnogenetic ties of the Dolgans’ ancestors with the Tungus world. <...> This article is merely an attempt to address such a serious issue of comparative study of typological features of the traditional clothing of the peoples of the North, which has not been sufficiently studied yet. <...> Keywords: Dolgans, Evens, traditional clothing, ethnic history, cultural genesis, typology of culture, common traditions, ethnogenetic connections. <...> The process of the Dolgan culture formation took place under conditions of constant inter-ethnic contacts, intense ethnocultural mutual inf luences and interconnections. <...> As a result of long-term economic and cultural exchange Dolgans could create an original, and in its essence, © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: savvin_06@mail.ru – 2482 – unique type of ethnic culture, formed on the basis of regional characteristics. <...> The history of the Dolgan culture study is not very long. <...> As early as in the 1920s, when the issues of their ethnicity and origin were still very Anatoly <...>