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Besermyan
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Also known as Biserman

The Besermyan, Biserman, Besermans, or Besermens, are a numerically small Permian people in Russia.

Key facts

Ethnic group.group
Besermyan
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Besermyans in traditional dress.jpg
Ethnic group.popplace
Udmurtia (Russia)
Ethnic group.pop1
2,036 (2021)
Ethnic group.rels
Russian Orthodoxy, Sunni Islam
Ethnic group.langs
Udmurt (Besermyan dialect)
Ethnic group.related
Udmurts,

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  • History
  • Culture
  • Genetics
  • Notes
  • References
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The Besermyan, Biserman, Besermans, or Besermens, are a numerically small Permian people in Russia.

The 1897 Russian census listed 10,800 Besermans. There were 10,000 Besermans in 1926, but the 2002 Russian census found only 3,122 of them.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Besermyan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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