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 includes tribes of Russia from 500 AD to 1519 AD, also including endangered groups for comparison that are nearing extinction, facing an extinction vortex (500 members or less by the 2002 Census).
Extinct
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Slavic migration began in the 6th century and some of Indigenous peoples who lived in European Russia and Siberia assimilated by the Russians.
- Anaoul Yukaghir assimilated after 18th century
- Asan people: In the 18th and 19th centuries they were assimilated by the Evenks
- Bulaqs: conquered by the Russians
- Chud: extinct after the 12th century.
- Khodynt Yukaghir extinct due to a plague in the late 17th century.
- Mators: extinction in 1840s, assimilated by the Russians and Siberian Turkics.
- Volga Bulgarians became extinct some time after a Mongol attack in 1430. In modern ethnic nationalism, there is some "rivalry for the Bulgar legacy" (see Bulgarism).[1][2] The Volga Tatars, Chuvash, Bashkirs and Bulgarians are said to be descended from the Bulgars, and there may be ethno-cultural influences in Hungarians and Balkars also
- Volga Finns
- Yurats Samoyed assimilated into Siberian Nenets people in early 19th century.
Endangered as of 2002 to present
- Izhorians 327 members
- Kerek 8 members
- Russko-ustintsy 8 members
- Votes 73 members
- Yaskolbinskie Tatar 3 members
- Kamasins extinction reported in 1989. According to the 2010 Census, population of 2.[3] Almost all of the Kamasins had assimilated with the Russian peasantry by the early 20th century.
- 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.[citation needed]
Endangered as of 2010 Russian Census
- Izhorians 266 members
- Votes 64 members
- Alyutors 25 members
- Kerek 4 members
- Yugh people 1 member
See also
References
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