The Apuka are one of the nine subdivisions of the
Koryaks.[clarification needed] In pre-Soviet Russia they were considered to be a distinct people. They speak their own dialect of the
Koryak language. They live primarily along the coast of the
Bering Sea.
Sources
Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1984) p. 12
Olson, James S., An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994) p. 37