How many people live in Russia? Map of the peoples of Russia

Russia is a multinational state. How many people live in Russia? Which of them are the most numerous? How are they settled across the country? We will learn more about this.

How many people live in Russia?

Russia covers a vast territory stretching from Eastern Europe to North Asia. Its area is 17 125 191 square kilometers, by this size the country ranks first in the world.

By the number of the population, Russia is on the ninth position, it is 146.6 million people. How many people live in Russia? It is difficult to name the exact figure, but approximately 190 of them, including the indigenous population and small indigenous peoples.

The main source of data on the population of Russia is the census, which was conducted in 2010. The nationality of the citizens of the country is not indicated in the passports, therefore the data for the census were obtained based on the self-determination of the inhabitants.

Slightly more than 80% of residents indicated themselves to be Russians, 19.1% of other nationalities. Approximately five and a half million people have not indicated their nationality. Based on these data, the total number of peoples of Russia, who do not consider themselves Russian, amounted to 26.2 million people.

Ethnic composition

Russians are the titular population of the country, they predominate in most of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. These include Pomors, representing the sub-ethnos of the Karelians and Russians in the White Sea region. The second largest number of people are Tatars, which include Mishars, Kryashen, Astrakhan and Siberian Tatars.

The most numerous group of peoples are Slavs, mostly Russians, Ukrainians, Byelorussians, Poles and Bulgarians. They belong to the Indo-European family, which in Russia is also represented by the Romance, Greek, German, Baltic, Iranian, Indo-Iranian and Armenian groups.

In total, there are peoples on the territory of the state who belong to nine language families. In addition to the Indo-European, they include:

• Altaic;
• Blue-tibetan;
• The Urals-Yukagir;
• Chukchi-Kamchatka;
• The Yenisei;
• Kartvelian;
• The Eskimo-Aleutian;
• North Caucasus.

Small peoples of Russia are represented by kereks (4 people), people vod (64), Enets (227), ults (295), Chulymtsy (355), Aleuts (482), Negidals (513), Orochi (596). These include peoples who belong to Finno-Ugric, Samoyedic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan groups.

The largest peoples of Russia are represented in the table below.

Map of the peoples of Russia

The population of the country is not inhabited. How many peoples live in Russia and how they are located on its territory, can clearly demonstrate the map below. The overwhelming majority live in the area between St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Novorossiysk and Primorye, where all the major cities are located.

The largest peoples of Russia: Russians, Tatars and Ukrainians - mostly inhabit the south-western part of the country. Ukrainians constitute a large proportion of residents in the Chukchi and Khanty-Mansiysk districts, in the Magadan region.

As for the rest of the Slavic group, the Poles and Bulgarians do not form large groups and are scattered dispersely. The compact Polish population lives only in the Omsk region. Belarusians in the majority of people inhabits the area of Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as the Kaliningrad region, Karelia, the Khanty-Mansiysk district.

The map of the peoples of Russia is presented below.

Tatars

The number of Tatars in Russia is more than 3% of the total population. One third of them live in the Republic of Tatarstan. Focal settlements are also in the Ulyanovsk region, Khanty-Mansiysk district, Bashkortostan, Tyumen, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, Penza regions and other subjects of the state.

Most of the Tatars are Sunni Muslims. Different groups of Tatars have linguistic differences, and also differ from each other in traditions and conduct of everyday life. Their language belongs to the Turkic languages of the Altai family; it has three dialects: Mishar (western), Kazan (middle), Siberian-Tatar (eastern). In the Republic of Tatarstan, the Tatar language is official.

The ethnonym "Tatars" appeared in the 6th century among the Turkic tribes, who called themselves so. After the conquest of the Golden Horde in the XIII century. The name extends and denotes already the Mongols and the tribes conquered by them. Later the term was used in relation to nomads of Mongol origin. Settled in the Volga region, these tribes called themselves Meselman, Mishar, Bolgra, Kazan, etc., until in the XIX century they consolidated themselves under the definition of "Tatars".

Ukrainians

One of the East Slavic peoples is Ukrainians, and lives mostly in the territory of Ukraine, where its population is about 41 million people. Large Ukrainian diasporas are in Russia, USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Germany and other countries.

Including labor immigrants, about 5 million Ukrainians live in Russia. Most live in cities. Large areas of settlement of this ethnic group are located in Moscow and Moscow region, Tyumen, Rostov, Omsk regions, Primorsky and Krasnodar regions, Yamalo-Nenets district, etc.

The history of the peoples of Russia is not the same. The large-scale settlement of Russian territories by Ukrainians began during the time of the empire's existence. In the XVI-XVII centuries, according to the royal decree, the Cossacks, gunmen, archers from Ukraine and the Don were sent to Siberia and the Far East for the development of lands. Later, peasants, townspeople, and representatives of the Cossack sergeant-major were exiled to them.

The intelligentsia voluntarily moved to St. Petersburg at a time when the city was the capital of the Russian Empire. At present, Ukrainians represent the largest ethnic group in Russia after the Russians.

Bashkirs

The fourth largest nation in Russia is the Bashkirs. The overwhelming majority live in the Republic of Bashkortostan. They also inhabit the Tyumen, Kurgan, Orenburg regions. The Bashkir language belongs to the Altaic family, is divided into the southern and eastern dialect and several dialects.

According to anthropological signs, the people belong to the suburban and South Siberian (in the eastern Bashkirs) racial types. They represent Europoids with a share of Mongoloid. According to their religious affiliation, they are Sunni Muslims.

The origin of the Bashkir people is associated with the tribes of the Pechenegs (South Ural Bashkirs - Burzians, Sierganes), as well as Polovtsians (Kypchaks, Canals) and Volga Bulgars (Bulyars). Their ancestors inhabited the Urals, the Volga and the Urals. Influence on the formation of the people was rendered by the Mongols and the Tungus-Manchus.

Indigenous peoples

The indigenous population of the country includes 48 peoples. They make up about 0.3% of the total population of the country. Approximately 12 of them are small and number less than a thousand people.

Small peoples of Russia mainly inhabit the northern regions of the state, the Far East and Siberia. They often conduct traditional farming, engaged in reindeer herding, fishing, hunting and cattle breeding.

The largest indigenous people are the Nenets, they number almost 45 thousand people. They occupy the coastal zones of the Arctic Ocean and are divided into European and Asian. The people breed deer and live in plague - cone-shaped huts, covered with birch bark and felt.

Kereks have the smallest number and are represented by only four people according to the census. Half a century ago there were about 100 of them. The main languages for them are Chukchi and Russian, the native Kerek language remained as a traditional passive language. According to the conduct of life and culture, they are similar to the Chukchi people, so they were assimilated with it.

Conclusion

Russia for many kilometers stretched from west to east, affecting both the European and Asian part of the continent. Over 190 peoples live on its vast territory. Russians are the most numerous and represent the titular nation of the country.

Other large peoples are the Tatars, Ukrainians, Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Avars, etc. In the state there live small indigenous peoples. The majority of them do not exceed a few thousand. The smallest are Kereks, Enets, Ults, Aleuts, they inhabit mainly the region of Siberia and the Far East.