The Evens or Eveny (formerly known as the Lamuts a term meaning "ocean people" in Even) (Ðвены in Russian) are a people in Siberia and the Russian Far East. They live in some of the regions of the Magadan and Kamchatka Oblasts and northern parts of Sakha east of the Lena River. According to the 2002 census, there were 19,071 Evens in Russia.