They live in the Chukotka Autonomous Region of eastern Russia.

Traditionally Naukan people hunted sea mammals.

Guests traveled from remote settlements to participate in pol'a', the month-long Naukan whale festival.

[3] Archaeological evidence places the Naukan on the Chukotka Peninsula off the Bering Sea back 2,000 years.

They used to live on Big Diomede Island and Cape Dezhnev in the Bering Strait.