Ethnic groups in Siberia

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The Buryats are a Mongolic ethnic group native to southeastern Siberia who speak the Buryat language. They are one of the two largest indigenous groups in Siberia, the other being the Yakuts. The majority of the Buryats today live in their titular homeland, the Republic of Buryatia, a federal subject of Russia which sprawls along the southern border and partially straddles Lake Baikal. Smaller groups of Buryats also inhabit Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug (Irkutsk Oblast) and the Agin-Buryat Okrug (Zabaykalsky Krai) which are to the west and east of Buryatia respectively as well as northeastern Mongolia

thumb|200px|right|Khanty family standing in front of a chum (tent)|chum, their traditional tent thumb|200px|Most Khanty people live in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug in western [[Siberia]] The Khanty (), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (), are a Ugric Indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian. In the 2021 Census, 31,467 persons identified themselves as Khanty. Of those, 30,242 were resident in

The Khakas or Khakass are a Turkic indigenous people of Siberia, who live in the republic of Khakassia, Russia. They speak the Khakas language.

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thumb|300px|Settlement of Koryaks in the Far Eastern Federal District by urban and rural settlements in %, 2010 census Koryaks () are an Indigenous people of the Russian Far East who live immediately north of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Kamchatka Krai and inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea. The cultural borders of the Koryaks include Tigilsk in the south and the Anadyr basin in the north.

indigenous Turkic-speaking ethnic group of South Siberia

thumb|300px|Resettlement of Itelmens in the Far Eastern Federal District by urban and rural settlements in%, 2010 census

thumb|Distribution of Chulyms in 16th, 19th and 20th centuries The Chulyms, also Chulym Tatars or Tom Karagas (self-designation: Татарлар, Tatarlar), are a Turkic people in the Tomsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia. In 2021, there were 382 Chulyms in Russia.

group of indigenous peoples of Alaska and the Russian Far East

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thumb|Primarily region of the Kumandins in Siberia.

The Soyot are an ethnic group who mainly live in the Oka region in the Okinsky District in Buryatia, Russia. They share much of their history with the Tofalar, Tozhu Tuvans, Dukha, and Buryat; the Soyot have taken on a great deal of Buryat cultural influence and were grouped together with them under Soviet policy. Due to intermarriage between Soyots and Buryats, the Soyot population is heavily mixed with the Buryat. In 2000, they were reinstated as a distinct ethnic group.

The Kamchadals (, ) are an ethnic group inhabiting Kamchatka, Russia. The name "Kamchadal" was originally applied to the descendants of the local Siberians and aboriginal peoples (the Itelmens, Ainu, Koryaks and Chuvans) who assimilated with the Russians. These descendants of the Russian settlers that mixed with the indigenous peoples in the 18th-19th century are called Kamchadals today. The Kamchadals speak Russian with a touch of local dialects of the aboriginal languages of Kamchatka. The Kamchadals engage in fur trading, fishing, market gardening and dairy farming, and the majority are of

The Tubalars are an ethnic subgroup of the Altaians native to the Altai Republic in Russia.

thumb|300px|Settlement of Chuvans in the Far Eastern Federal District by urban and rural settlements in%, 2010 census

Yupik Eskimo people who live near the Bering Strait

thumb|320px|An Old Believers chapel at the Ulan-Ude Ethnographic Museum in [[Buryatia]] The Semeiskie are a community of orthodox Old Believers who have lived in the Transbaikal since the reign of Catherine the Great. The sacred rites and rituals of the Old Believers came to be in opposition to those of the official state church after the introduction of the 17th century religious reforms known as the Raskol. Those who rejected the reforms became known as "Old Believers" (mostly, the Russian Old-Orthodox Church) and continued to practice their faith despite repression. The Semeiskie were a par

ethnic groups that originated in North Asia

thumb|200px|Siberian beauty of Vasily Surikov (1891)

ethnic group in Northeastern Siberia

peoples numbering >50000 living in the North Russia, Siberia and Russian Far East in the territories of the traditional settlement of their ancestors, preserving their traditional way of life, farming and crafts and recognizing themselves as such

thumb|200px|Kamenschik settlements in the late 18th century The Kamenschiks () or Bukhtarman are a group of Russians who descend from the earliest settlers of South Siberia. They are Old Believers and originally lived along the Kerzhenets River in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. They later moved to the banks of the Bukhtarma River.

Sirenik or Sireniki ( ) are an Eskaleut-speaking ethnic group of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and former speakers of a divergent Eskimo-Aleut language in Siberia, before its extinction in 1997. The total language death of this language means that now the cultural identity of Sirenik Yupik is maintained through other aspects: slight dialectal difference in the adopted Siberian Yupik language; sense of place, including appreciation of the antiquity of their settlement Sirenik.

Local Transbaikal people, Russia

thumb|A Chasovennye chapel in Ulan-Ude, Transbaikalia The Chasovennye people (also known as the Semeyskie or Semeiskie people east of Lake Baikal) are a Siberian sect of the Old Believers, Eastern Orthodox Christians who reject the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow in the 1650s and retain pre-Nikonian religious practices. Although they once allowed priesthood, they eventually joined other priestless (Bezpopovtsy) movements and outlawed priesthood and sacraments beyond baptism. The term Chasovennye itself refers to the literal chapels in which liturgical practices such as baptism occurred.