List of extinct indigenous peoples of Russia

This is a list of extinct indigenous peoples of Russia. The list does not include ancient or classical historical tribes in the period of 4000 BC to 500 AD. The list does include tribes of Russia from 500 AD to 1519 AD the Middle Ages. The list also includes Endangered groups for comparison that for all intents and purposes will become extinct such as facing extinction vortex (500 members or less by 2002 Census).

A general map of Russian territory before the beginning of the Slavic colonization.

Extinct

Slavic migration began in the 6th century and some of indigenous peoples who lived in European Russia and Siberia assimilated by the Russians.

Endangered as of 2002 to present

  • Izhorians 327 members
  • Kerek 8 members
  • Russko-ustintsy 8 members
  • Votes 73 members
  • Yaskolbinskie Tatar 3 members
  • Yugh people 19 members
    • Yugens 1
    • Yugis 18
  • Yupik
    • Sirenik language extinction in 1997. This ethnic group, the Sirenik Eskimos, is no longer enumerated in the census and members and, if surviving, might have changed their identity into another related and larger ethnic group such as Yupik or something completely different.

Endangered as of 2010 Russian Census

See also

References

  1. http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/Documents/Materials/pril3_dok2.xlsx
  2. Viktor Aleksandrovich Shnirelʹman, Who gets the past?: competition for ancestors among non-Russian intellectuals in Russia, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8018-5221-8, ISBN 978-0-8018-5221-3. Cf. chapters: The Rivalry for the Bulgar Legacy, The Neo-Bulgarists, etc.
  3. James Stuart Olson, Lee Brigance Pappas, Nicholas Charles, An Ethnohistorical dictionary of the Russian and Soviet empires, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 0-313-27497-5, ISBN 978-0-313-27497-8, p.114
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