Northern indigenous peoples of Russia

This list is based solely on territory; the peoples listed here do not belong to a single language family or ethnicity: they are Finnish, Turkic, Eskimo-Aleut, and other groups. Many of them are (almost) extinct or assimilated.

Many of these peoples live in Siberia, and their names here are transliterations from Russian, rather than self-names. In some cases this creates difficulty in providing the plural form, because the Russian letter 'Ц' is rendered as 'ts'. These cases are marked by the asterisk (*).

• Aleut
• Chukchi
• Chuvans
• Dolgans
• Evenks (obsolete: Tungus)
• Evens
• Inuit
• Itel'mens
• Kamas (extinct since 1989)
• Karelians
• Khants (Ostyaks, obsolete)
• Kamchadals
• Koryaks
• Kumandints
• Lamuts
• Mansi (Voguls, obsolete)
• Nanais (Russian plural: Nanaitsy)
• Negidals
• Nenets (*) (Russian plural: Nentsy, old Russian name Samoyeds)
• Nganasans (Tavgi)
• Nivkhs
• Orochs (Evenk tribe by the Oro river)
• Oroks
• Saami (old Russian name Lopars, i.e., Lapp)
• Sel'kups
• Shors
• Teleuts
• Tofalars
• Tuvian-Todzhynts
• Udege
• Ul'chs
• Yakuts
• Yenets (*) (Enets, Russian plural: Yentsy, obsolete: Yenisei Samoyeds, Yenisei Ostyak, Kets)
• Yukaghirs

Related topics

• List of ethnic groups

External links

• UNESCO Red Book on endangered languages: Norteast Asia
• Endangered Uralic Peoples
• Minority languages of Russia on the Net
• The Red Book of the peoples of the Russian Empire