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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Finno-Ugric tribe</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Finno-ugrian-map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Finno-ugrian-map.svg/220px-Finno-ugrian-map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Finno-ugrian-map.svg/330px-Finno-ugrian-map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Finno-ugrian-map.svg/440px-Finno-ugrian-map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="963" data-file-height="987" /></a><figcaption>The Meschera are represented by dark green.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Meshchera</b> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Мещёра</span>, <b>Meshchyora</b>) were a <a href="/wiki/Finno-Ugric_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Finno-Ugric peoples">Finno-Ugric</a> tribe in the Volga region between the <a href="/wiki/Oka_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Oka River">Oka River</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Klyazma_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Klyazma River">Klyazma</a> river, today called the <a href="/wiki/Meshchera_Lowlands" title="Meshchera Lowlands">Meshchera Lowlands</a>, who assimilated with the neighbouring tribes around the 16th century.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Rakhonen_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rakhonen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kominarod_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kominarod-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meshchera_people&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first Russian written source which mentions them is the <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tolkovaya_Paleya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tolkovaya Paleya (page does not exist)">Tolkovaya Paleya</a></i>, from the 13th century.<sup id="cite_ref-kominarod_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kominarod-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are also mentioned in several later Russian chronicles from the period before the 16th century. This is in stark contrast to the related tribes <a href="/wiki/Meryans" title="Meryans">Merya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Muroma" class="mw-redirect" title="Muroma">Muroma</a>, which appear to have been assimilated by the <a href="/wiki/East_Slavs" title="East Slavs">East Slavs</a> by the 10th and the 11th centuries. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ivan_II_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivan II of Russia">Ivan II</a>, prince of Moscow, wrote in his will, 1358, about the village Meshcherka, which he had bought from the native Meshcherian chieftain <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Ukovich&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander Ukovich (page does not exist)">Alexander Ukovich</a>. The village appears to have been converted to the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Christian Orthodox</a> faith and to have been a vassal of <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Moscow" title="Principality of Moscow">Muscovy</a>. </p><p>Several documents mention the Meshchera concerning the <a href="/wiki/Kazan" title="Kazan">Kazan</a> campaign by <a href="/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible" title="Ivan the Terrible">Ivan the Terrible</a> in the 16th century. These accounts concern a state of Meshchera (known under a tentative name of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Temnikov_Meshchera&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Temnikov Meshchera (page does not exist)">Temnikov Meshchera</a>, after its central town of <a href="/wiki/Temnikov" title="Temnikov">Temnikov</a>) which had been assimilated by the <a href="/wiki/Mordvins" title="Mordvins">Mordvins</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Tatars" title="Tatars">Tatars</a>. </p><p>Prince <a href="/wiki/A._M._Kurbsky" class="mw-redirect" title="A. M. Kurbsky">A. M. Kurbsky</a> wrote that a <a href="/wiki/Mordvin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Mordvin language">Mordvin language</a> was spoken in the lands of the Meshchera. The <a href="/wiki/Meshchera_language" title="Meshchera language">Meshchera language</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is unattested, and theories on its affiliation remain speculative.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Oka_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Oka River">Oka River</a> valley, the Meshchera culture appears to have disappeared by the 11th century. In the marshy north, they appear to have stayed and to have been converted into the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox</a> faith. The Meshchera nobility appears to have been converted and assimilated by the 13th century, but the common Meshchera huntsman and fisherman may have kept elements of their language and beliefs for a longer period. In the 16th century, the St Nicholas monastery was founded in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Radovitsky&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Radovitsky (page does not exist)">Radovitsky</a> in order to convert the remaining Meshchera pagans. The princely family <a href="/wiki/Mestchersky" class="mw-redirect" title="Mestchersky">Mestchersky</a> in Russia derives its nobility from having originally been native rulers of some of these Finnic tribes.<sup id="cite_ref-Ruvigny_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ruvigny-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archaeology">Archaeology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meshchera_people&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Archaeology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the village of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zhabki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zhabki (page does not exist)">Zhabki</a> (<a href="/wiki/Egorievsk" class="mw-redirect" title="Egorievsk">Egorievsk</a> district, <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Oblast" title="Moscow Oblast">Moscow Oblast</a>), Meshchera burial sites were found in 1870. Women's bronze decorations identified as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Finno-Ugric_people&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Finno-Ugric people (page does not exist)">Finno-Ugric</a> were found and dated to the 5th-8th centuries. Very similar finds soon appeared in the <a href="/wiki/Ryazan_Oblast" title="Ryazan Oblast">Ryazan Oblast</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Oblast" title="Vladimir Oblast">Vladimir Oblast</a>, enabling archaeologists to establish what characterized the material culture of the Meshchera. 12 such sites were found from the <a href="/wiki/Moskva_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Moskva River">Moskva River</a>, along the <a href="/wiki/Oka_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Oka River">Oka River</a> to the town <a href="/wiki/Kasimov" title="Kasimov">Kasimov</a>. The general opinion is nowadays, that the Oka-Ryazan culture is identical to that of the Meshchera. </p><p>The graves of women have yielded objects typical of the Volga Finns, of the 4th-7th centuries, consisting of <a href="/wiki/Finger_ring" class="mw-redirect" title="Finger ring">rings</a>, jingling <a href="/wiki/Pendant" title="Pendant">pendants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buckle" title="Buckle">buckles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Torc" title="Torc">torcs</a>. A specific feature was round breast plates with a characteristic ornamentation. </p><p>Some of the graves contained well-preserved <a href="/wiki/Copper_oxide" title="Copper oxide">copper oxides</a> of the decorations with long black hair locked into small bells into which were woven pendants. </p><p>It appears from the remains that <a href="/wiki/Slavic_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavic peoples">Slavic</a> tribes arrived into Meshcheran territories in the period of the 10th-12th centuries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Disappearance">Disappearance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meshchera_people&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Disappearance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Oka_river" class="mw-redirect" title="Oka river">Oka river</a> valley, the Meshchera culture appears to have disappeared by the 11th century. There are no indications of genocide, but the fast changes appear to show that the Meshchera were partially pushed away by the Slavs. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Marsh" title="Marsh">marshy</a> north, they appear to have stayed and to have been converted into the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox</a> faith. The Slavs were not as interested in the wetlands and allowed the Meshchera to stay for some time. The Meshchera nobility appears to have been converted and assimilated by the 13th century, but the common Meshchera huntsman and fisherman may have kept elements of their language and beliefs for a longer period. In the 16th century, the St Nicholas monastery was founded in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Radovitsky&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Radovitsky (page does not exist)">Radovitsky</a> in order to convert the remaining Meshchera pagans. It is possible that they still spoke their old language. </p><p>The princely family <a href="/wiki/Meshchersky" title="Meshchersky">Meschersky</a> in Russia derives its nobility from having originally been native rulers of some of these Finnic tribes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Remaining_ethnic_influence">Remaining ethnic influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meshchera_people&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Remaining ethnic influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ethnographers treat the modern Meshchera as a local group within the Russian ethnos. These Russian-speakers live in the massive forests on the frontier between the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Oblast" title="Moscow Oblast">Moscow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ryazan_Oblast" title="Ryazan Oblast">Ryazan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Oblast" title="Vladimir Oblast">Vladimir Oblasts</a>. Some Meshchera also appear in the regions of <a href="/wiki/Tambov_Oblast" title="Tambov Oblast">Tambov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Penza_Oblast" title="Penza Oblast">Penza</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saratov_Oblast" title="Saratov Oblast">Saratov Oblasts</a>. They are generally dark and of medium height and they continue to live as fishermen, bee-keepers and huntsmen. </p><p>It is believed that the Mishars, a subgroup of the <a href="/wiki/Tatars" title="Tatars">Tatars</a>, inherited the name <i>Meshchera</i>, but it remains unclear whether the ethnonym derives from the name of the region in which the group originally lived or actually indicates that the group traces its descent from the original Finno-Ugric tribe. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meshchera_people&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Meschera were primarily fishermen, beekeepers, hunters and bronze craftsmen. They knew of agriculture, but they only used it in limited amounts. Prior to assimilation from the Russians, they held to <a href="/wiki/Animism" title="Animism">animistic</a> beliefs.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Language">Language</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meshchera_people&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Meshchera_language" title="Meshchera language">Meshchera language</a></div> <p>Some linguists think that Meschera might have been a dialect of <a href="/wiki/Mordvinic_languages" title="Mordvinic languages">Mordvinic</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Janse_2000_A108_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Janse_2000_A108-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while Pauli Rahkonen has suggested on the basis of <a href="/wiki/Toponym" class="mw-redirect" title="Toponym">toponymic</a> evidence that it was a <a href="/wiki/Permic_languages" title="Permic languages">Permic</a> or closely related language.<sup id="cite_ref-Rakhonen_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rakhonen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rahkonen's speculation has been criticized by other scientists, such as by the Russian Uralist <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Napolskikh" title="Vladimir Napolskikh">Vladimir Napolskikh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some toponyms which Rahkonen suggested as Permic are the <a href="/wiki/Hydronym" title="Hydronym">hydronymic</a> stems: Un-, Ič-, Ul and Vil-, which can be compared to Udmurt uno 'big', iči 'little', vi̮l 'upper' and ulo 'lower'. Rahkonen also theorized the name Meshchera itself could be a Permic word, and its cognate be Komi mösör 'isthmus'.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meshchera_people&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Meryans" title="Meryans">Meryans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volga_Finns" title="Volga Finns">Volga Finns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volga_Finns" title="Volga Finns">Muromians</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meshchera_people&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-:1-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:1_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWaldmanMason2006" class="citation book cs1">Waldman, Carl; Mason, Catherine (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kfv6HKXErqAC&dq=meshchera+people&pg=PA521"><i>Encyclopedia of European Peoples</i></a>. 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people">Orochs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orok_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Orok people">Oroks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taz_people" title="Taz people">Taz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udege_people" title="Udege people">Udege</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulch_people" title="Ulch people">Ulchs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Siberia" title="Indigenous peoples of Siberia">Siberia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kamasins" title="Kamasins">Kamasins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumandins" title="Kumandins">Kumandins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shors" title="Shors">Shors</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Aba_people" title="Aba people">Aba</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soyot" title="Soyot">Soyots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siberian_Tatars" title="Siberian Tatars">Siberian Tatars</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Baraba_Tatars" title="Baraba Tatars">Baraba Tatars</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Chat_Tatars" title="Chat Tatars">Chat Tatars</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Eushta_Tatars" title="Eushta Tatars">Eushta Tatars</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Kalmak_Tatars" title="Kalmak Tatars">Kalmak Tatars</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Siberian_Bukharans" title="Siberian Bukharans">Siberian Bukharans</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Zabolotnie_Tatars" title="Zabolotnie Tatars">Zabolotnie Tatars</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teleuts" title="Teleuts">Teleuts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tofalar" title="Tofalar">Tofalars</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dagestan#Ethnic_groups" title="Dagestan">Dagestan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abazins" title="Abazins">Abazins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aghul_people" title="Aghul people">Aghuls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aukhs" title="Aukhs">Aukhovite Chechens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avars_(Caucasus)" title="Avars (Caucasus)">Avars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akhvakh_people" title="Akhvakh people">Akhvakhs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andi_people" title="Andi people">Andis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archi_people" title="Archi people">Archis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagvalal_people" title="Bagvalal people">Bagvalals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bezhta_people" title="Bezhta people">Bezhtas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Botlikh_people" title="Botlikh people">Botlikhs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chamalal_people" title="Chamalal people">Chamalals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godoberi_people" title="Godoberi people">Godoberi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinukh_people" title="Hinukh people">Hinukhs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunzib_people" title="Hunzib people">Hunzibs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karata_people" title="Karata people">Karatas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khwarshi_people" title="Khwarshi people">Khwarshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tindi_people" title="Tindi people">Tindis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsez_people" title="Tsez people">Tsez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis_in_Russia" title="Azerbaijanis in Russia">Azerbaijanis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dargins" title="Dargins">Dargins</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Kaitags" title="Kaitags">Kaitags</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Kubachi_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kubachi people">Kubachins</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%8B" class="extiw" title="ru:Кубачинцы">ru</a>]</span></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumyks" title="Kumyks">Kumyks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laks_(Caucasus)" title="Laks (Caucasus)">Laks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lezgins" title="Lezgins">Lezgins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nogais" title="Nogais">Nogais</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Ak_Nogai" title="Ak Nogai">Ak Nogai</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Karagash" title="Karagash">Karagash</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutul_people" title="Rutul people">Rutuls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabasaran_people" title="Tabasaran people">Tabasarans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talysh_people" title="Talysh people">Talysh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tat_people_(Caucasus)" title="Tat people (Caucasus)">Tats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsakhur_people" title="Tsakhur people">Tsakhurs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_Indigenous_peoples_of_Russia#Other" class="mw-redirect" title="List of minor Indigenous peoples of Russia">Other</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Besermyan" title="Besermyan">Besermyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tver_Karelians" title="Tver Karelians">Tver Karelians</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other ethnic peoples</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abkhazians" title="Abkhazians">Abkhaz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghans_in_Russia" title="Afghans in Russia">Afghans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arabs_in_the_Caucasus" title="Arabs in the Caucasus">Arabs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenians_in_Russia" title="Armenians in Russia">Armenians</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Cherkesogai" title="Cherkesogai">Cherkesogai</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assyrians_in_Russia" title="Assyrians in Russia">Assyrians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis_in_Russia" title="Azerbaijanis in Russia">Azerbaijanis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belarusians_in_Russia" title="Belarusians in Russia">Belarusians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bosniaks" title="Bosniaks">Bosniaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_people" title="British people">Britons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Bulgarians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bukharan_Jews" title="Bukharan Jews">Bukharan Jews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crimean_Karaites" title="Crimean Karaites">Crimean Karaites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cubans" title="Cubans">Cubans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czechs" title="Czechs">Czechs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dungan_people" title="Dungan people">Dungans</a></li> <li><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venemaa_eestlased" class="extiw" title="et:Venemaa eestlased">Estonians</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Setos" title="Setos">Setos</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finns" title="Finns">Finns</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Ingrian_Finns" title="Ingrian Finns">Ingrian Finns</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Murmansk_Finns" title="Murmansk Finns">Murmansk Finns</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Siberian_Finns" title="Siberian Finns">Siberian Finns</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gagauz_people" title="Gagauz people">Gagauz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgians_in_Russia" title="Georgians in Russia">Georgians</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Adjarians" title="Adjarians">Adjarians</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Ingiloy_people" title="Ingiloy people">Ingiloy</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Laz_people" title="Laz people">Laz</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Mingrelians" title="Mingrelians">Mingrelians</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Svans" title="Svans">Svans</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Jews in Georgia">Georgian Jews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia_Germans" title="Russia Germans">Germans</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Russian_Mennonite" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Mennonite">Mennonites</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Volga_Germans" title="Volga Germans">Volga Germans</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greeks_in_Russia_and_Ukraine" title="Greeks in Russia and Ukraine">Greeks</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Urums" title="Urums">Urums</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_Chinese_in_Russia" title="Ethnic Chinese in Russia">Han</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemshin_people" title="Hemshin people">Hamshenis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_diaspora" title="Hungarian diaspora">Hungarians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indians_in_Russia" title="Indians in Russia">Indians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italians" title="Italians">Italians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_people_in_Russia" title="Japanese people in Russia">Japanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia" title="History of the Jews in Russia">Jews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazakhs_in_Russia" title="Kazakhs in Russia">Kazakhs</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Astrakhan_Kazakhs" title="Astrakhan Kazakhs">Astrakhan Kazakhs</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koryo-saram" title="Koryo-saram">Koreans</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/North_Koreans_in_Russia" title="North Koreans in Russia">North Koreans</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Sakhalin_Koreans" title="Sakhalin Koreans">Sakhalin Koreans</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krymchaks" title="Krymchaks">Krymchaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurds_in_Russia" title="Kurds in Russia">Kurds</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6_(%D1%8D%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC)" class="extiw" title="ru:Курмандж (этноним)">Kurmanj</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyrgyz_people" title="Kyrgyz people">Kyrgyz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latvians_in_Russia" title="Latvians in Russia">Latvians</a> <ul><li><span 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href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B2_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8" class="extiw" title="ru:Таджики в России">Tajiks</a></li> <li><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D0%B2_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8" class="extiw" title="ru:Туркмены в России">Turkmens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turks_in_Russia" title="Turks in Russia">Turks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udi_people" title="Udi people">Udis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainians_in_Russia" title="Ukrainians in Russia">Ukrainians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uzbeks_in_Russia" title="Uzbeks in Russia">Uzbeks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uyghurs" title="Uyghurs">Uyghurs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_people_in_Russia" title="Vietnamese people in Russia">Vietnamese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yazidism_in_Russia" title="Yazidism in Russia">Yazidis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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