Hunting and trading culture of Chelkans is the basis of ecological education
Chelkans are Turkic-speaking people, an indigenous small-numbered people of the Russian Federation, living in the Altai Republic. According to the last census of 2010, the official population of Chelkans is 1181 people. The basis of the hunting and trading culture of the Chelkan people is all the wisdom of the people, a set of rules oflife, a practical philosophy accumulated over the centuries.