Nanais

From Freepedia

The Nanais (sing. Nanai) are one of the Manchu-Tungus indigenous peoples of Siberia. They live on the Sea of Okhotsk, on the Amur River, downstream from Khabarovsk, on both sides of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, as well as on the banks of the Ussuri and the Girin rivers (the Samagirs). They also inhabit a part of northeast China on the River Sungari. According to the 2002 census, there were 12,160 Nanais in Russia.

Akira Kurosawa's 1975 film Dersu Uzala, based on a book by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, is about the friendship of a pre-revolution Russian military officer and a Nanai man named Dersu Uzala. In the book and in the film, the Nanai people are referred to their former Russian name of Gol'ds.