List of larger indigenous peoples of Russia

List of larger indigenous peoples of Russia

The list of larger indigenous peoples of Russia includes extant indigenous peoples in the territory of Russia which are not listed in the official List of small-numbered indigenous peoples of Russia.

Titular nations

This sublist includes indigenous peoples of Russia which are titular nations, i.e., peoples who gave rise to the names of national entities: independent states or autonomous areas.

*Adyghe, titular for Adygea
*Altay people, titular for Altai Republic, Altai Krai
*Bashkirs, titular for Bashkortostan
*Balkars, Kabardino-Balkaria
*Belarusians, indigenous in Smolensk and Bryansk Oblasts (see Belarusians in Russia), titular for Belarus
*Buryat people, titular for Buryatia, Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug and Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug
*Chechens, Chechnya
*Chuvashs, Chuvashia
*Circassians, Karachay-Cherkessia
*Ingushs, Ingushetia
*Kabardins, Kabardino-Balkaria
*Kalmyks, Kalmykia
*Karachays, Karachay-Cherkessia
*Karelians, Karelia
*Khakas, Khakassia
*Komi peoples, Komi Republic
*Mordvin people, Mordovia
*Ossetians, North Ossetia (Russia), South Ossetia (Georgia)
*Russians, titular for Russia
*Mari people, titular for Mari El
*Tatars, titular for Tatarstan
*Tuvinians, titular for Tuva
*Udmurts, titular for Udmurtia
*Ukrainians,fact|date=April 2008 indigenous in Krasnodarfact|date=April 2008, Rostovfact|date=April 2008, Stavropolfact|date=April 2008, Belgorodfact|date=April 2008, Kurskfact|date=April 2008, Voronezhfact|date=April 2008, and Bryansk Oblastsfact|date=April 2008 (see Ukrainians in Russia and Ukrainians in Kuban), titular for Ukraine
*Yakuts (self-designation: Sakha), titular for Sakha Republic (Yakutia)

Indigenous peoples of Dagestan

This small republic has a relatively large number of ethnic groups and languages. According to a 2000 decree of the government of Russian Federation [ [http://demoscope.ru/weekly/knigi/zakon/zakon047.html A decree about small-numbered indigenous peoples of Russia] ru icon] , Dagestan was supposed to compile their own list of small-numbered indigenous peoples, to be included in the overall List of small-numbered indigenous peoples of Russia The peoples below do not fall under the criteria of the decree.

*Avars
*Dargins
*Lezgins

ee also

*List of indigenous peoples of Russia

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