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The Kurykans ( pinyin: Gǔlìgān H-kɑn) were a Turkic Tiele tribe, that inhabited the Lake Baikal area in the 6th century CE. Early Kurykans migrated from the area of the Yenisey river.

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The Kurykans ( pinyin: Gǔlìgān H-kɑn) were a Turkic Tiele tribe, that inhabited the Lake Baikal area in the 6th century CE. Early Kurykans migrated from the area of the Yenisey river.

According to the article on "the Origin of Yakuts, Analysis of the Y-Chromosome Haplotypes", published by the researchers from the Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Russian "Molecular Biology" journal in 2008:

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