TheApuka are one of the nine subdivisions of theKoryaks.^{[clarification needed]} In pre-Soviet Russia they were considered to be a distinct people. They speak their own dialect of theKoryak language. They live primarily along the coast of theBering Sea.

• 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

• Endangered Languages of Siberia - The Koryak language

• Ethnic groups in Russia

• Wikipedia articles needing clarification from October 2013