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These peoples satisfy the following criteria:
  • To live in their historical territory;

  • To preserve traditional way of life, occupations, and trades;

  • To self-recognize themselves as a separate ethnicity

  • There should be at most 50,000 of population within Russia.


Some of them, such as Soyots , were recognized only after the Collapse Of The Soviet Union .

These peoples subject to benefits according to a number of laws aimed at preservation and support of these ethnicities.

Ten of these peoples count less than 1,000 and 11 of them live beyond the Arctic Circle .


Far North



Central Siberia



Far East



Southern Siberia



PEOPLES OF DAGESTAN WITH POPULATION LESS THAN 50,000

According to a 2000 decree of the government of Russian Federation A decree about small-numbered indigenous peoples of Russia , Dagestan was supposed to compile their own list of small-numbered indigenous peoples, to be included in the overall List Of Small-numbered Indigenous Peoples Of Russia The peoples below fall under the criteria of the decree, but were not included into the list in 2000.

there are about 40 other tiny ethnic groups in Dagestan, with total number of less than 40,000.


OTHER



MEDIAN AGE

Most of the small numbered people have median ages considerably lesser than Russian average. The below table is taken from Russian census of 2002.For example median age for ethnic Russians was 37.6 years, while that of Yuraq Samoyeds was 26.20 . {Link without Title}


Birth Rate

The below table gives the average birth rate for Smaller Ethnic groups for the 1997-2002 period based on the 2002 census. (per 1000 people) Source: {Link without Title} For most of the groups the birth rate was more than the death rate. For example for the Yuraq Samoyeds the birth rate was more than double the death rate. But for ethnic groups like Veps (Death rate 7 times the birth rate) the reverse was true. For Ingrians, not a single birth was recorded in 1992-2002 period. The youngest of the Ingrians are 3 people in 10-14 age group(Total ethnic population 327, of which more than 60% are above 70 years of age. The 1989 population was 820, signifying a decline of 2.5 times)


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