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<small>(Census 2010)<sup id="cite_ref-Национальный_состав_населения_Российской_Федерации_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Национальный_состав_населения_Российской_Федерации-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – <b>1,500,000</b> (Estimate)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to <b>3,000,000</b><sup id="cite_ref-eurasianet_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eurasianet-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></small></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Dagestan" title="Dagestan">Dagestan</a></th><td class="infobox-data">130,919</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;">Moscow (urban only)</th><td class="infobox-data">57,123</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tyumen_Oblast" title="Tyumen Oblast">Tyumen Oblast</a></th><td class="infobox-data">43,610</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Moscow_Oblast" title="Moscow Oblast">Moscow Oblast</a> (excl. Moscow)</th><td class="infobox-data">19,061</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Rostov_Oblast" title="Rostov Oblast">Rostov Oblast</a></th><td class="infobox-data">17,961</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Stavropol_Krai" title="Stavropol Krai">Stavropol Krai</a></th><td class="infobox-data">17,800</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a> (urban only)</th><td class="infobox-data">17,717</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Krasnoyarsk_Krai" title="Krasnoyarsk Krai">Krasnoyarsk Krai</a></th><td class="infobox-data">16,341</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Saratov_Oblast" title="Saratov Oblast">Saratov Oblast</a></th><td class="infobox-data">14,868</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Volgograd_Oblast" title="Volgograd Oblast">Volgograd Oblast</a></th><td class="infobox-data">14,398</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast" title="Sverdlovsk Oblast">Sverdlovsk Oblast</a></th><td class="infobox-data">14,215</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Samara_Oblast" title="Samara Oblast">Samara Oblast</a></th><td class="infobox-data">14,093</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_language" title="Azerbaijani language">Azerbaijani</a> <b>·</b> Russian</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Predominantly <a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shia Islam</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Related ethnic groups</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_diaspora" title="Azerbaijani diaspora">Azerbaijani diaspora</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Azerbaijanis in Russia</b> or <b>Russian Azerbaijanis</b> (<a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_language" title="Azerbaijani language">Azerbaijani</a>: <i lang="az">Rusiya azərbaycanlıları</i> (Latin), Русија азәрбајҹанлылары (Cyrillic); Russian: <span lang="ru">Азербайджанцы в России</span>, <i>Azerbajdzhantsy v Rossii</i>) are people of <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis" title="Azerbaijanis">Azeri</a> descent in <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. These may be either ethnic <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis" title="Azerbaijanis">Azeris</a> residents in the country or recent immigrants who profess Azeri ancestry. </p><p>Aside from the large Azeri community native to Russia's <a href="/wiki/Dagestan_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Dagestan Republic">Dagestan Republic</a>, the majority of Azeris in Russia are fairly recent immigrants. Azeris started settling in Russia (with the exception of Dagestan) around the late nineteenth century, but their migration intensified after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, and especially after the collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> in 1991. According to the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Census_(2010)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Census (2010)">2010 All-Russian Population Census</a>, there are 603,070 Azeris residing in Russia, however the actual numbers may be much higher due to the arrival of guest workers in the post-Soviet era. The estimated total Azeri population of Russia as of 2002 might have reached as many as 3,000,000 people,<sup id="cite_ref-eurasianet_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eurasianet-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with more than one and half million of them living in Moscow, though in the following decade there was a tendency for many Azeris to move back to Azerbaijan.<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> The majority of post-1991 ethnic Azeri migrants have come to Russia from rural Azerbaijan, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>. Today most provinces of Russia have more or less significant Azeri communities, the biggest ones, according to official numbers, residing in Dagestan, Moscow, <a href="/wiki/Khanty%E2%80%93Mansi" class="mw-redirect" title="Khanty–Mansi">Khanty–Mansi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Krasnoyarsk_Krai" title="Krasnoyarsk Krai">Krasnoyarsk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rostov_Oblast" title="Rostov Oblast">Rostov-on-the-Don</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saratov_Oblast" title="Saratov Oblast">Saratov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast" title="Sverdlovsk Oblast">Sverdlovsk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samara_Oblast" title="Samara Oblast">Samara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stavropol_Krai" title="Stavropol Krai">Stavropol</a>, etc.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dagestan">Dagestan</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Azerbaijanis_in_Russia&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Dagestan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of 2010, 130,919 Azeris lived in the Dagestan Republic, which makes them the region's sixth-largest ethnic group and 4.5% of its total population. Most of them are natives of the city of <a href="/wiki/Derbent" title="Derbent">Derbent</a> living in the historical quarter Mahal and making up about one-third of the city's population. Azeris constitute 58% of the population of the <a href="/wiki/Derbentsky_District" title="Derbentsky District">Derbentsky District</a> (more than 20 towns and villages), 18% of that of the <a href="/wiki/Tabasaransky_District" title="Tabasaransky District">Tabasaransky District</a> 2.35% in the <a href="/wiki/Kizlyarsky_District" title="Kizlyarsky District">Kizlyarsky District</a> (villages of Bolshebredikhinskoye and Persidskoye),<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1.64% in the Magaramkent Rayon, and 1.56% in the Rutul Rayon. The rest live in the cities of <a href="/wiki/Makhachkala" title="Makhachkala">Makhachkala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khasavyurt" title="Khasavyurt">Khasavyurt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buynaksk" title="Buynaksk">Buynaksk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kizlyar" title="Kizlyar">Kizlyar</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>Among cultural benefits, available to Dagestani Azeris, there are newspapers and magazines printed in the <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_language" title="Azerbaijani language">Azeri language</a>, 72 public schools where Azeri is taught as a second language, and the Azeri Folk Theater in Derbent, founded in 1904.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historically Azeris of Dagestan were engaged in carpet weaving, currying, jewellery- and copper utensils making.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rural Azeris were occupied in farming.<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most Azeris of Dagestan are Shia, although <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Muslims" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni Muslims">Sunni Muslims</a> are found among the rural population.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, in a presidential decree, Azeris along with 13 other ethnic groups of Dagestan received the status of a native community of Dagestan.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2011, there are four Azeri members of the Dagestan State Council.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Beginning in 2014, the Azeri population of Derbent voiced its concern due to the government's indifference towards the poor state of infrastructure and frequent acts of vandalism<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and unauthorised removal<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of Azeri cultural landmarks in the city. These concerns led to protests and demands for a better representation at the municipal level.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> American political analyst <a href="/wiki/Paul_A._Goble" title="Paul A. Goble">Paul A. Goble</a> characterised these events as "the boiling point" in the interethnic relations in Derbent and did not exclude the possibility of them leading to an ethnic conflict that would threaten to extend across the Russian–Azerbaijani border.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Azerbaijanis_in_Derbent">Azerbaijanis in Derbent</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Azerbaijanis_in_Russia&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Azerbaijanis in Derbent"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the disintegration of the <a href="/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">Caliphate</a>, the city of Derbent and the surrounding area (currently the <a href="/wiki/Derbentsky_District" title="Derbentsky District">Derbent Rayon</a>) became an independent emirate closely allied with the neighbouring state of <a href="/wiki/Shirvan" title="Shirvan">Shirvan</a> (present day northeastern <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>). During this period, the emirate became destination for the migration of numerous <a href="/wiki/Turkic_peoples" title="Turkic peoples">Turkic tribes</a>. This factor, as well as the influence of the <a href="/wiki/Seljuq_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Seljuq Empire">Seljuq Empire</a>, ensured the spread of an <a href="/wiki/Oghuz_languages" title="Oghuz languages">Oghuz Turkic idiom</a> in Derbent already in the eleventh century.<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Chechnya" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongol invasions of Chechnya">Mongol invasion</a> put an end to the emirate's independence for the next two centuries. In the fifteenth century, <a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_I_of_Shirvan" title="Ibrahim I of Shirvan">Ibrahim I</a>, who hailed from Derbent, became the new ruler of Shirvan and incorporated Derbent into Shirvan.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Azerisdag.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Azerisdag.JPG/200px-Azerisdag.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Azerisdag.JPG/300px-Azerisdag.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Azerisdag.JPG/400px-Azerisdag.JPG 2x" data-file-width="420" data-file-height="577" /></a><figcaption>Map of Dagestan. Azerbaijani populated regions are shown in yellow</figcaption></figure> <p>The ethnic make-up of Derbent remained unchanged until the city became part of the <a href="/wiki/Safavid_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Safavid Empire">Safavid Empire</a> in the early sixteenth century. The Safavid rule was characterised with active resettlement policies, aimed at securing Shia Muslim dominance in the conquered lands. In 1509, 500 Karamanli Turkic families from <a href="/wiki/Tabriz" title="Tabriz">Tabriz</a> settled in Derbent. An unknown number of Turkic-speakers from the Kurchi tribe were resettled her in 1540. Half a century later, 400 more families of the Turkic-speaking <a href="/wiki/Bayat_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bayat (name)">Bayat clan</a> were relocated to Derbent on the orders of <a href="/wiki/Abbas_I_of_Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbas I of Persia">Abbas I</a>. Finally, in 1741, <a href="/wiki/Nadir_Shah" class="mw-redirect" title="Nadir Shah">Nadir Shah</a> relocated Turkic-speakers from the Mikri clan to Derbent. By 1870 the settlers were all regarded as speaking a common language, Azeri.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to their Shia adherence, the new migrants were referred to by contemporary historians as <i>Persians</i> (Russian: <span lang="ru">персияне</span>), a term that was erroneously applied to Shia Azeris of Dagestan way into the twentieth century.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Adam_Olearius" title="Adam Olearius">Adam Olearius</a> who visited the region around 1635 described Shirvan as a state of many peoples, all of whom, however, besides their own language, also spoke Turkic.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time of <a href="/wiki/Peter_the_Great" title="Peter the Great">Peter the Great</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1722-1723)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russo-Persian War (1722-1723)">conquest</a> of the Caspian coastline in 1722, the city of Derbent was predominantly inhabited by Azeris.<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (November 2017)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The northern part of the Derbent Rayon was historically populated by the Tarakama, a Turkic-speaking people akin to the <a href="/wiki/Karapapak" class="mw-redirect" title="Karapapak">Karapapak</a>, who were sometimes classified as a separate ethnic group until the twentieth century. In Dagestan, they are also sometimes referred to as Padars. The Tarakama originated in various parts of Shirvan and were resettled by Khan Muhammad of Kaitag to the north of the city of Derbent around 1600. From then on, the area inhabited by them has been referred to as the Tarakama mahal (district) and constituted an administrative unit until the early twentieth century.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The district included 10 villages. In 1736, around 300 Tarakama families from Kaitag advanced further across the <a href="/wiki/Sulak_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Sulak River">Sulak River</a> and settled on the Terek Valley in three villages, where they later mixed with the <a href="/wiki/Kumyks" title="Kumyks">Kumyks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rest gradually assimilated among Azerbaijanis and today for the most part consider themselves Azerbaijani.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are mainly Sunni and speak a variety of Azeri, close to the dialect of <a href="/wiki/Shamakhy" class="mw-redirect" title="Shamakhy">Shamakhy</a>. </p><p>Such assimilation notably affected not only Turkic-speaking peoples of Dagestan. In the past, southern Dagestan had a large <a href="/wiki/Tat_people_(Caucasus)" title="Tat people (Caucasus)">Tat</a> population which originally spoke an <a href="/wiki/Tat_language_(Caucasus)" title="Tat language (Caucasus)">Iranian language</a> like other Tats. In 1866, they numbered 2,500 people<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and by 1929 lived in seven villages, including Zidyan, Bilgadi, Verkhny Chalgan, and Rukel.<sup id="cite_ref-miller_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-miller-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, by the beginning of the twentieth century most of them had become Azeri-speaking and assumed Azeri identity in the later decades.<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Today, 16 out of 40 settlements in Derbent are majority-Azeri populated, and in nine more, Azeris constitute either a relative majority or a significant minority: Berikei, Delichoban, Velikent, Verkhny Chalgan, Nizhny Chalgan, Sabnova, Dzhemikent, Zidyan, Zidyan-Kazmalyar, Mitagi, Mitagi-Kazmalyar, Kala, Mugarty, Muzaim, Padar, Kommuna, Rukel, Tatlyar, Karadagly, Bilgadi, Belidzhi, Arablinsky, Arablyar, Gedzhukh, Chinar, Nyugdi, Rubas, Salik, Ullu Terekeme, Khazar, the town of Mamedkala. </p><p>Derbent was still a predominantly Azeri (called <i>Transcaucasian Tatars</i> in older Russian sources) town in 1897, with 9,767 persons constituting 66.7% of its population.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Decades later, even though their numbers continued to grow, due to heavy immigration in the town, as of 2010, Azeris constituted just 32.3% of its total population with 38,523 persons.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Azerbaijanis_in_Tabasaran">Azerbaijanis in 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The growth and establishment of ethnic Azeris in this region has heavily depended on assimilation processes. In 1876, many <a href="/wiki/Tabasaran_people" title="Tabasaran people">Tabasarans</a> were already in the process of switching from <a href="/wiki/Tabasaran_language" title="Tabasaran language">Tabasaran</a> to Azeri as their first language.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, from the Middle Ages, the population of a number of villages in Tabasaran, namely Arablyar, Gimeidi, Darvag, Yersi, and Kemakh consisted of <a href="/wiki/Arabs_in_the_Caucasus" title="Arabs in the Caucasus">ethnic Arabs</a> who were gradually being absorbed by the neighbouring population, mainly Azeri, such as in Yersi. In 1929, Kemakh was listed among Tat-populated villages, whereas Gimeidi (abandoned in 1976) was described as mixed Tat and Azeri. These Tats, in turn, were assimilated by Azeris in the following decades. Arablyar, which is now part of the <a href="/wiki/Kurakhsky_District" title="Kurakhsky District">Kurakh Rayon</a>, currently has mixed <a href="/wiki/Lezgin_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Lezgin people">Lezgin</a> and Azeri population.<sup id="cite_ref-miller_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-miller-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Residents of Darvag retained the knowledge of <a href="/wiki/Shirvani_Arabic" title="Shirvani Arabic">Arabic</a> as a first language until the 1930s, after which they also integrated linguistically and ethnically into the Azeri surrounding.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Currently ethnic Azeris constitute majority in the villages of Maraga, Hili-Pendzhik (including the settlement of Yekrag), Tsanak, Arak, Yersi, Darvag, and Zil. The villages of Arkit and Khurvek, as well the district capital Khuchni are mixed Azeri and Tabasaran. Azeris of Tsanak, Arak, Yersi, and Khuchni are normally bilingual in Azeri and Tabasaran, showing preference for Tabasaran when talking to their Tabasaran neighbours even if the latter know Azeri.<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Azerbaijanis_in_Rutul">Azerbaijanis in Rutul</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Azerbaijanis_in_Russia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Azerbaijanis in Rutul"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nizhny Katrukh is the only Azeri village in the <a href="/wiki/Rutulsky_District" title="Rutulsky District">Rutul Rayon</a>. Azeris of Nizhny Katrukh consider themselves descendants of the people of Shirvan who were captured by the mountaineers during one of their raids into the plains around 1700, taken to the <a href="/wiki/Shamkhalate_of_Kazi-Kumukh" class="mw-redirect" title="Shamkhalate of Kazi-Kumukh">Shamkhalate of Kazi-Kumukh</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Lak_people_(Dagestan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lak people (Dagestan)">Lak</a> state of the time) and made subjects of the Shamkhal. According to a local legend, only two of the original seven settlers were Azeri, though it was the Azeri identity that came to dominate.<sup id="cite_ref-lavrov_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lavrov-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The village today consists of seven quarters, populated by people of various waves of pre-Czarist immigration.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Azeris of Rutul speak a distinct dialect of Azeri, which displays a heavy <a href="/wiki/Lak_language" title="Lak language">Lak substratum</a> (despite general ethnic <a href="/wiki/Rutul_people" title="Rutul people">Rutul</a> dominance in the district).<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first newspaper in Rutul, <i>Gizil Choban</i>, established in 1932, was printed in Azeri.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Role_of_the_Azerbaijani_language_and_culture">Role of the Azerbaijani language and culture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Azerbaijanis_in_Russia&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Role of the Azerbaijani language and culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For centuries Azeri has been the <i><a href="/wiki/Lingua_franca" title="Lingua franca">lingua franca</a></i> of Southern Dagestan,<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> used both to communicate with Azeris and with mountaineers whose languages were unrelated or considered unintelligible.<sup id="cite_ref-sergeyeva_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sergeyeva-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the sixteenth century, it became widespread in the <a href="/wiki/Samur_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Samur River">Samur</a> Valley and by the nineteenth century, the Azeri language spread across all of the foothill and lowland regions of Dagestan, and was one of the languages of trade and interethnic communication, along with <a href="/wiki/Kumyk_language" title="Kumyk language">Kumyk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Avar_language" title="Avar language">Avar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-muysken_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-muysken-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Historically the peoples of Southern Dagestan were oriented toward the cultural and behavioural norms of Azerbaijan, as well as depended on its economy.<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the course of history, they found themselves almost fully immersed in the Azeri linguistic and cultural milieu. According to Dagestani anthropologist Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov, through the Azeri language, the people of this region "achieved material benefits, satisfaction of cultural needs, as well as creative and spiritual inspiration."<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lezgian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Lezgian people">Lezgian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tabasaran_people" title="Tabasaran people">Tabasaran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rutul_people" title="Rutul people">Rutul</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Aghul_people" title="Aghul people">Aghul</a> poets were creating poetry in Azeri already in the seventeenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beginning in 1917, the works of <a href="/wiki/Kumyk_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kumyk people">Kumyk</a> authors have displayed influences of Azeri literature.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> First plays in the amateur Lezgian theatre established in 1907 were performed in the Azeri language.<sup id="cite_ref-liblezg_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-liblezg-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Azeri music and singing traditions played a major role in the cultural integration of the peoples of Southern Dagestan.<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Music was performed through Azeri folk instruments, such as <a href="/wiki/Tar_(lute)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tar (lute)">tar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kamancheh" title="Kamancheh">kamancha</a> and the Azeri <a href="/wiki/Mugham" title="Mugham">mugham</a> became a well-celebrated genre of music among the peoples of Dagestan.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lezgian music in particular shares many similar features with Azeri music.<sup id="cite_ref-liblezg_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-liblezg-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Azeri songs were played and performed at Tabasaran weddings as late as in the 1980s. According to Belarusian Jewish traveller Joseph Cherny, who visited the region in 1870, <a href="/wiki/Mountain_Jews" title="Mountain Jews">Mountain Jews</a> of Dagestan had largely adopted Azeri cultural values and lifestyles, and even read liturgical prayers with a Tat translation and an Azeri tune.<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As for the Lezgian, Rutul, <a href="/wiki/Tsakhur_people" title="Tsakhur people">Tsakhur</a> and other Nakh-Dagestani-speaking population, the Azeri language affected their cultural sphere<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was a primary source for many loanwords,<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> leaving their everyday speech behaviour mostly intact.<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Tabasaran language is considered the most influenced by Azeri,<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which has contributed many nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verb forms and even auxiliary words and morphemes.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1861, the first secular school in Southern Dagestan opened in the Lezgian village of <a href="/wiki/Akhty" title="Akhty">Akhty</a>, and Azeri was taught there along with Russian.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The learned masses preferred to use Arabic in formal communication, which is why in 1920, Arabic was chosen over the largely unwritten indigenous languages of Dagestan as a means of public education. The atheist policies of the Soviet government, however, attempted to eliminate religion from everyday life. Arabic soon became seen as a link between the Dagestanis and their Islamic heritage. Thus in 1923, Azeri became the language of education in all of Dagestan. According to Alibek Takho-Godi, Dagestani <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Commissar" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Commissar">People's Commissar</a> (minister) of Justice in the 1920s (himself of <a href="/wiki/Dargwa_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Dargwa people">Dargwa</a> origin), local Nakh-Dagestani languages were "not taken seriously as a means of nation-building due to their excessive number."<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Azeri retained its status until 1928, when education in other local languages, as well as in Russian, was introduced.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Azeri remained as the most popular second language in Southern Dagestan at least until the 1950s,<sup id="cite_ref-sergeyeva_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sergeyeva-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> spoken with various degrees of popularity as far north as in the <a href="/wiki/Tindi_people" title="Tindi people">Tindi</a> villages of <a href="/wiki/Tsumadinsky_District" title="Tsumadinsky District">Tsumada</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tsumada_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tsumada-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is noteworthy that historically among Tindis<sup id="cite_ref-tsumada_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tsumada-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and especially Aghuls, who lived relatively far from the Azeri settlements, usually only males spoke Azeri or any second language; and only those who visited the lowlands for seasonal labour.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beginning in the 1950s, the use of Azeri as a common second language and lingua franca has been in decline, as it could no longer compete with Russian.<sup id="cite_ref-mag1_11-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mag1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2010, 13,648 Lezgians (2.93%), 5,665 Tabasarans (3.96%), 3,105 Avars (0.35%), and 1,379 Dargwa (0.24%) living in Russia claimed speaking Azeri, mostly as a second language (the figures in brackets indicate the percentage of the speakers of Azeri in relation to the overall ethnic population that reported language command).<sup id="cite_ref-langcomm_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-langcomm-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Dagestan, the number of non-Azeri speakers of the Azeri language (as either a first or second language) was still in the thousands in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the Dagestani constitution, the official languages of Dagestan are Russian and "all local languages", though only 14 of the republic's numerous languages have writing systems, one of them being Azeri.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rest_of_Russia">Rest of Russia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Azerbaijanis_in_Russia&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Rest of Russia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Azerbaijanis_by_federal_subject_2010.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Azerbaijanis_by_federal_subject_2010.svg/450px-Azerbaijanis_by_federal_subject_2010.svg.png" decoding="async" width="450" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Azerbaijanis_by_federal_subject_2010.svg/675px-Azerbaijanis_by_federal_subject_2010.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Azerbaijanis_by_federal_subject_2010.svg/900px-Azerbaijanis_by_federal_subject_2010.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1092" data-file-height="630" /></a><figcaption>Distribution of Azerbaijanis in Russia, 2010</figcaption></figure> <p>Diplomatic missions and merchants from <a href="/wiki/Shirvan" title="Shirvan">Shirvan</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Safavid_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Safavid Empire">Safavid Empire</a> first appeared in Russia in the fourteenth and fifteenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> conquering what is now Azerbaijan in the early nineteenth century and its incorporation into the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> in 1920, the Azeri population did not tend to leave its traditional areas of settlement until the second half of the twentieth century.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, isolated communities of Azeris in Russia can trace their existence to the mid-nineteenth century. </p><p>The population of maritime <a href="/wiki/Caspian_Sea" title="Caspian Sea">Caspian</a> regions has historically had strong economic ties with the city of <a href="/wiki/Astrakhan" title="Astrakhan">Astrakhan</a> on the northern Caspian shore. Starting in the 1830, Azeri merchants began settling in this city, with three of them controlling up to 80% of commercial navy later in the century.<sup id="cite_ref-abc_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Azeris, known to the local population as <i>Persians</i> or <i>Shamakhy Tatars</i>, numbered around one thousand persons in 1879.<sup id="cite_ref-etnokonf_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etnokonf-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Azeri oil industrialist, first-guild merchant <a href="/wiki/Shamsi_Asadullayev" title="Shamsi Asadullayev">Shamsi Asadullayev</a>, founder of the Asadullayev Trade Affairs, built an oil base not far from Astrakhan, in a settlement presently known as Asadullayevo.<sup id="cite_ref-abc_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Azeri community of Astrakhan grew in the Soviet times and in 2010 consisted of 5,737 people, making Azeris the fourth largest ethnicity in the oblast and 1.31% of its total population.<sup id="cite_ref-etnicheski_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etnicheski-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The religious life of the Azeris in Astrakhan is centred around the 1909 Kriushi Mosque, which was closed down in 1932, and recently reopened and renovated as a Shiite mosque and named the Baku Mosque (by virtue of being located on Baku Street).<sup id="cite_ref-etnokonf_62-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etnokonf-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Azeri language is taught as a subject at the <a href="/wiki/Astrakhan_State_University" title="Astrakhan State University">Astrakhan State University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-abc_61-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shamsi Asadullayev was based in Moscow from 1903 until his death in 1913. He allocated money for the construction of a secular school for Muslim boys and girls and a Muslim community centre in Moscow. The four-story building erected after his death on Maly Tatarsky Lane came to be known as the Asadullayev House. It is currently owned by the Tatar National Cultural Autonomy of Moscow.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Similarly to all Muslims of the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a> and Central Asia, Azeris were exempt from compulsory military service in the Russian Imperial army, but were required to pay a special tax. Those willing to serve were allowed to enlist in irregular units, such as the <a href="/wiki/Savage_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Savage Division">Savage Division</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-rigvr_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rigvr-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the same time, there was no restriction for Azeris (and other Muslim subjects of the Russian Empire) to be trained as officers. In 1805, <a href="/wiki/Mammad_Hasan_agha_Javanshir" title="Mammad Hasan agha Javanshir">Mammad Hasan agha Javanshir</a> became one of the first Russian <a href="/wiki/Major_general" title="Major general">major generals</a> of Azeri origin.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ethnic Azeri officers commanded Russian troops in a series of wars, including the Russo-Persian wars of <a href="/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1804%E2%80%9313)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russo-Persian War (1804–13)">1804–1813</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1826%E2%80%9328)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russo-Persian War (1826–28)">1826–1828</a>, Russo-Turkish wars of <a href="/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1828%E2%80%9329)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russo-Turkish War (1828–29)">1828–1829</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1877%E2%80%9378)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)">1877–1878</a>, the suppression of the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1848" title="Hungarian Revolution of 1848">Hungarian Revolution of 1848</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Caucasian_War" title="Caucasian War">Caucasian War</a>, and the Russian conquest of Central Asia.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1905, Azeri political figures were among those who established the first Islamic party of Russia, <a href="/wiki/Ittifaq_al-Muslimin" class="mw-redirect" title="Ittifaq al-Muslimin">Ittifaq al-Muslimin</a>, in the city of <a href="/wiki/Nizhny_Novgorod" title="Nizhny Novgorod">Nizhny Novgorod</a>. An Azeri member, lawyer <a href="/wiki/Alimardan_Topchubashov" class="mw-redirect" title="Alimardan Topchubashov">Alimardan Topchubashov</a>, was elected its leader. The party was officially registered in 1908.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were six ethnic Azeris elected in the <a href="/wiki/State_Duma_of_the_Russian_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="State Duma of the Russian Empire">State Duma of the Russian Empire</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1906_Russian_legislative_election" title="1906 Russian legislative election">1906 Russian legislative election</a>, six more in the February 1907 election and one in each of the following elections.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the decades following World War II, Azeris have played significant a role in developing Russian economy. Azerbaijani geologist <a href="/wiki/Farman_Salmanov" title="Farman Salmanov">Farman Salmanov</a>, who later established himself in Moscow, discovered rich oil reserves in <a href="/wiki/Siberia" title="Siberia">Siberia</a> which had previously been considered as an unlikely oil-bearing region. In 2019, <a href="/wiki/Surgut_International_Airport" title="Surgut International Airport">Surgut International Airport</a>, the third busiest airport in <a href="/wiki/Western_Siberia" title="Western Siberia">Western Siberia</a>, is expected to be named after Salmanov following online voting.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With many of them involved in <a href="/wiki/Entrepreneurship" title="Entrepreneurship">entrepreneurship</a>, Azeris have been employed in major economical areas, such as trade and oil industry. Among Russia's 100 richest people ranked by <i><a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a></i> in 2004, three ethnic Azeris were ranked 10, 66 and 74.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Azeris have established numerous cultural communities, the largest one being the All-Russian Azeri Congress and the Azeri Federal National Culture Autonomy, which control smaller communities across Russia. In addition, the Moscow Public Secondary School No. 157 is set up for students with keen interest in the Azeri language and culture.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2005 study indicated noticeable social differences between two groups of Azeris: those who are native to or have lived considerable parts of their lives in Moscow and those who are recent immigrants. About half of the people in the first group have a post-secondary degree, whereas among immigrant Azeris only 25% do. Fluency in the Russian language is characteristic of virtually all of those in the first group (moreover, 24% of Azeris from this group reported it as their first language), while almost one-third of those in the second group speak very limited Russian. About half of Azeri newcomers are engaged in commerce and service sector, compared to the native and earlier immigrant Azeris who tend to pursue careers in sciences, health care, education and the arts.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In general, among ethnic Caucasus diasporas in Moscow, Azeris stand out as the least integrated into Russian society. They have been described as the strongest adherents to their traditions and marriages within their own ethnic community compared to local Armenians, Georgians, Ukrainians, and Tatars. According to a 2006 survey, 71% of Moscow Azeris described themselves as being religious. A great number of them have retained Azerbaijani citizenship and is willing to relocate back to Azerbaijan at some point.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Russian_Census_(2010)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Census (2010)">2010 Russian census</a> saw a decrease in the number of Azeris in Russia compared to the previous census, with 603,070 Azeris (with 21.7% of them in Dagestan) compared to 621,840 in 2002 (with 18% in Dagestan). Over 97% of Azeris living in Russia know the Russian language.<sup id="cite_ref-langcomm_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-langcomm-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Close to 84% considers Azeri their first language.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among Azeris of Dagestan, the number of speakers of Azeri as a first language is over 99%.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discrimination">Discrimination</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Azerbaijanis_in_Russia&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Discrimination"><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/Racism_in_Russia" title="Racism in Russia">Racism in Russia</a></div> <p>Azeris in the Russian Federation have faced discrimination, although racial conflict has had a rapid decline since 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Noble_families">Noble families</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Azerbaijanis_in_Russia&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Noble families"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Milyukov" title="Milyukov">Milyukov</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Azerbaijanis_of_Russia">Azerbaijanis of Russia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Azerbaijanis_in_Russia&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Azerbaijanis of Russia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Russian_Azerbaijanis" title="List of Russian Azerbaijanis">List of Russian Azerbaijanis</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vladimir_Putin_with_Muslim_Magomayev.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Vladimir_Putin_with_Muslim_Magomayev.jpg/220px-Vladimir_Putin_with_Muslim_Magomayev.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Vladimir_Putin_with_Muslim_Magomayev.jpg/330px-Vladimir_Putin_with_Muslim_Magomayev.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Vladimir_Putin_with_Muslim_Magomayev.jpg/440px-Vladimir_Putin_with_Muslim_Magomayev.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="334" /></a><figcaption>Muslim Magomayev was a Soviet and Azerbaijani baritone operatic and pop singer.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tamilla_Abassova" title="Tamilla Abassova">Tamilla Abassova</a>, racing cyclist, <a href="/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics" title="2004 Summer Olympics">2004 Olympic</a> silver medalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geydar_Dzhemal" title="Geydar Dzhemal">Geydar Dzhemal</a>, philosopher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emin_Garibov" title="Emin Garibov">Emin Garibov</a>, artistic gymnast</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruslan_Gasimov" title="Ruslan Gasimov">Ruslan Gasimov</a>, judoka</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murad_H%C3%BCseynov" title="Murad Hüseynov">Murad Hüseynov</a>, football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stalic_Khankishiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalic Khankishiev">Stalic Khankishiev</a>, chef, photographer, cooking writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgiy_Mamedov" title="Georgiy Mamedov">Georgiy Mamedov</a>, diplomat, currently ambassador to Canada</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramiz_Mamedov" title="Ramiz Mamedov">Ramiz Mamedov</a>, retired football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karim_Mammadbeyov" title="Karim Mammadbeyov">Karim Mammadbeyov</a>, revolutionary and early Soviet politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timur_Rodriguez" title="Timur Rodriguez">Timur Rodriguez</a>, showman, singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Samedov" title="Aleksandr Samedov">Aleksandr Samedov</a>, football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramil_Sheydayev" title="Ramil Sheydayev">Ramil Sheydayev</a>, football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tofig_Zulfugarov" title="Tofig Zulfugarov">Tofig Zulfugarov</a>, former Azerbaijani foreign minister</li></ul> <dl><dt>Azerbaijanis born elsewhere</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aras_Agalarov" title="Aras Agalarov">Aras Agalarov</a>, businessman, billionaire, founder of Crocus International</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emin_Agalarov" class="mw-redirect" title="Emin Agalarov">Emin Agalarov</a>, businessman, singer and songwriter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farkhad_Akhmedov" title="Farkhad Akhmedov">Farkhad Akhmedov</a>, politician, businessman, founder of Northgas</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vagit_Alekperov" title="Vagit Alekperov">Vagit Alekperov</a>, President of the leading Russian <a href="/wiki/Oil_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil company">oil company</a> <a href="/wiki/LUKOIL" class="mw-redirect" title="LUKOIL">LUKOIL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avraamy_Aslanbegov" title="Avraamy Aslanbegov">Avraamy Aslanbegov</a>, Russian admiral</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zafar_Guliyev" class="mw-redirect" title="Zafar Guliyev">Zafar Guliyev</a>, wrestler, <a href="/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics" title="1996 Summer Olympics">1996 Olympic</a> bronze medalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Habibullah_Huseynov" title="Habibullah Huseynov">Habibullah Huseynov</a>, Soviet colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rustam_Ibragimbekov" class="mw-redirect" title="Rustam Ibragimbekov">Rustam Ibragimbekov</a>, screenwriter, <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> winner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Kazembek_(Russian_orientalist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Kazembek (Russian orientalist)">Alexander Kazembek</a>, 19th-century Russian linguist and scholar</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerim_Kerimov" title="Kerim Kerimov">Kerim Kerimov</a>, part of <a href="/wiki/Soviet_space_program" title="Soviet space program">Soviet space program</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muslim_Magomayev_(musician)" title="Muslim Magomayev (musician)">Muslim Magomayev</a>, singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emin_Makhmudov" class="mw-redirect" title="Emin Makhmudov">Emin Makhmudov</a>, football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enver_Mamedov" title="Enver Mamedov">Enver Mamedov</a>, Soviet diplomat, mass media manager</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tahir_Mamedov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tahir Mamedov (page does not exist)">Tahir Mamedov</a>, TV host, entertainer, actor, comedian and singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilgar_Mammadov_(fencer)" title="Ilgar Mammadov (fencer)">Ilgar Mammadov</a>, fencer, Olympics winner <a href="/wiki/1988_Summer_Olympics" title="1988 Summer Olympics">1988</a> and <a href="/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics" title="1996 Summer Olympics">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heydar_Mammadaliyev" class="mw-redirect" title="Heydar Mammadaliyev">Heydar Mammadaliyev</a>, wrestler, <a href="/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics" title="2004 Summer Olympics">2004 Olympic</a> silver medalist, world champion</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Musa_Manarov" title="Musa Manarov">Musa Manarov</a>, cosmonaut, flight engineer on Soyuz TM-4</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huseyn_Khan_Nakhchivanski" title="Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski">Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski</a>, Cavalry General and General-Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vugar_Orujov" title="Vugar Orujov">Vugar Orujov</a>, wrestler, <a href="/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics" title="1992 Summer Olympics">1992 Olympic</a> bronze medalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farman_Salmanov" title="Farman Salmanov">Farman Salmanov</a>, geologist who first discovered <a href="/wiki/Oil_fields" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil fields">oil fields</a> in <a href="/wiki/Siberia" title="Siberia">Siberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahir_Salahov" title="Tahir Salahov">Tahir Salahov</a>, artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Abdul%27Rahim_Talibov_Tabrizi" title="Mirza Abdul'Rahim Talibov Tabrizi">Mirza Abdul'Rahim Talibov Tabrizi</a>, intellectual and social reformer</li></ul> <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=Azerbaijanis_in_Russia&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijani people">Azerbaijani people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Russian_Azerbaijanis" title="List of Russian Azerbaijanis">List of Russian Azerbaijanis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenians_in_Russia" title="Armenians in Russia">Armenians in Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranians_in_Russia" title="Iranians in Russia">Iranians in Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turks_in_Russia" title="Turks in Russia">Turks in Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan%E2%80%93Russia_relations" title="Azerbaijan–Russia relations">Azerbaijan–Russia relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russians_in_Azerbaijan" title="Russians in Azerbaijan">Russians in Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia" title="Demographics of Russia">Demographics of Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagestan" title="Dagestan">Dagestan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagestani_Azerbaijanis" title="Dagestani Azerbaijanis">Dagestani Azerbaijanis</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=Azerbaijanis_in_Russia&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ainu_people" title="Ainu people">Ainus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evenks" class="mw-redirect" title="Evenks">Evenks</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hamnigan" title="Hamnigan">Hamnigans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evens" title="Evens">Evens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanai_people" title="Nanai people">Nanai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negidals" title="Negidals">Negidals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nivkh_people" title="Nivkh people">Nivkhs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oroch_people" title="Oroch 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><a href="/wiki/Aba_people" title="Aba people">Aba</a></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><a href="/wiki/Baraba_Tatars" title="Baraba Tatars">Baraba Tatars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chat_Tatars" title="Chat Tatars">Chat Tatars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eushta_Tatars" title="Eushta Tatars">Eushta Tatars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalmak_Tatars" title="Kalmak Tatars">Kalmak Tatars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siberian_Bukharans" title="Siberian Bukharans">Siberian Bukharans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zabolotnie_Tatars" title="Zabolotnie Tatars">Zabolotnie Tatars</a></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 class="mw-selflink selflink">Azerbaijanis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dargins" title="Dargins">Dargins</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kaitags" title="Kaitags">Kaitags</a></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><a href="/wiki/Ak_Nogai" title="Ak Nogai">Ak Nogai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karagash" title="Karagash">Karagash</a></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><a 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