Russian Girls Pictures : A big Buryat (Mongolian) family in Russia: great grandmother, grandmother, son with his wife and their children, in national costumes
The Russian Federation is home to as many as 160 different ethnic groups and indigenous
peoples. Around 80% of population is ethnically Russian. The remaining percentage is -
Tatars - 3.8%, Ukrainians - 3%, Chuvash - 1.8%, Belarusians - 0.8%, Mordovians - 0.7%,
Germans and Chechens - by 0.6%, Avars, Armenians, Jews - by 0.4% and others. Tatars and
the Bashkirs make up the largest grouping of Muslim nations located almost in the
center of Russia. In Siberia live Altai, Khakassia, Yakuts. In the Caucasus live the
people of Abkhaz-Adyghe Group: Kabardins, Adygea and Circassians; Nehsko-Daghestanian
Group: Chechens, Ingush, Avars, Lezgins; Ossetins are related to the Iranian group.
Russia is a home for the Finno-Ugric peoples - these are the Finnish, Karelians, Komis
and Saami in the north of European Russia; Mari and Mordovians in the Volga region,
the Khanty and Mansi - in Western Siberia. In the Far North there are Nenetses. In East
Siberia live Evenks. On the Chukotka Peninsula - Chukchi. Mongolian group is represented
by Buryats in Siberia and Kalmyks on the Caspian Sea.
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Author :
Alexander Podshivalov,
Ulan-Ude, Russian Federation
Equipment used: Camera make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D700; Lens: 50.0 mm f/1.4;
Effective focal length: 5.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 50.0 mm); Aperture: 8.0;
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