Dear friend!

In this book with wonderful illustrations by artist V.V. Danilov you will read a legend about an ancient animal mammoth that once lived on the territory of our republic. In this book with wonderful illustrations by artist V.V. Danilov, you will read a legend about an ancient animal mammoth that once lived on the territory of Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
The legend was told in 1896 on the Korkodon River by the Upper Kolyma Yukaghir N. Samsonov to a collector and researcher of folklore of the peoples of the North Vladimir Ilyich Iokhelson. Yukaghir tales and legends contain the wisdom of the oldest inhabitants of our republic.
Read the legend, translate into Russian using the dictionary at the end of the book.

Compiler - PhD in history L.N Zhukova
Adviser - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences P.E. Prokopiyeva

Reviewers:
L.L. Gabysheva, Doctor of Philological Sciences.
S.A. Alekseeva, PhD in History.
A.G. Vyrdylina, teacher of the Yukaghir language.

The book is printed according to the text by V.I. Iokhelson. Processing of the text in the forest Yukaghir language by A.E. Shadrina, translation into the tundra Yukaghir language by A.G. Vyrdylina.

The text in the forest Yukaghir language is voiced by L.N. Demina.
The text in the tundra Yukaghir language is voiced by P.I. Sentyakova.