found: Work cat.: Kulʹtura i tradit︠s︠ii korennykh narodov Severnogo Altai︠a︡. Sankt Peterburg, 2008.
found: An Ethnohistorical dictionary of the Russian and Soviet empires, 1994(Kumandin. The Kumandins--also known as Kumandas, Kuvandy, Kuvandyg, Kuvandykh, Kuvanty, Kumandy--live on the Bija, Isha and Kozha Rivers and speak one of the Altai dialects. They represent a mixture over the centuries of Turkic immigrants, indigenous peoples of Southern Siberia, Shors and Russians.)
found: Wikipedia (viewed 11 March 2009)(The Kumandins are an autonomous people of southern Siberia. They reside mainly in the Altai Republic. Their language is related to the Uighur language, and is Turkic in nature. According to the 1926 census there were 6,335 Kumandins in Russia. In the 2002 census, the number was only 3,114, but possibly the number of the 1926 census also included related peoples)