The Sakhalin Ainu called the Sakhalin taimen of "Chirai", Hokkaido - "Obirame", Nivkhs - "Goy", Japanese - "Ito".

 The Russian name "Chevitsa" has probably arisen because the Russian Cossacks who for the first time have seen this big fish have nothing was her to compare, except as from the Kamchatka chavycha (King salmon). For a long time in various publications this confusion remained.