Tags: Ethnic Group.
Tofalars (Тофалары тофа (tofa) in Russian; formerly known as карагасы or karagas); or the Tofa people are a Turkic people in the Irkutsk Oblast in Russia. Their origins Tofa language and culture are close to those of the eastern Tuvans-Todzhins. Before the 1917 October Coup the Tofalars used to be engaged in nomadic living in the taiga; they engaged in reindeer husbandry and hunting. The Tofalars were resettled by the Soviet government by 1932.
