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Historical ethnic groups of Russia

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Sabir people
historical ethnical group
Merya
thumb|Merya jewellery, 10th century The Meryans () or Merya people () were an ancient Finnic people that lived in the Upper Volga region. The Primary Chronicle places them around the Nero and Pleshcheyevo lakes. They were assimilated by the Russians by the 17th century, but there has been a modern revival of Meryan culture and language, termed Meryan ethnofuturism.
Kamasins
The Kamasins (; Kamassian: ) are a collection of tribes of Samoyedic peoples in the Sayan Mountains who lived along the Kan River and Mana River in the 17th century in the southern part of today's Krasnoyarsk Krai.
Meshchera
finno-Ugric tribe
Burtas
Burtas (, Burtasy; , Părtassem; , lar, ) were a tribe of uncertain ethnolinguistic affiliation inhabiting the steppe region north of the Caspian Sea in medieval times (modern Penza Oblast, Ulyanovsk Oblast and Saratov Oblast of the Russian Federation). They were subject to the Khazars.
Kola Norwegians
Norwegian immigrant-descendants in Russia
Kylfings
thumb|The Norslunda Viking runestones|runestone bearing runic inscription U 419, which mentions the personal name Kylfingr The Kylfings (Old Norse Kylfingar; Estonian Kalevid; Hungarian Kölpények; Old East Slavic Колбяги, Kolbiagi; Byzantine Greek Κουλπίγγοι, Koulpingoi; Arabic al-Kilabiyya) were a people of uncertain origin active in Northern Europe during the Viking Age, roughly from the late ninth century to the early twelfth century. They could be found in areas of Lapland, Russia, and the Byzantine Empire that were frequented by Scandinavian traders, raiders and mercenaries. Scholars diff
Siberian Bukharans
ethnographic and sociocultural group of Russia
Apsilae
The Principality of Apselia was an ancient polity located on the Black Sea coast of the northwest Caucasus near the estuary of Kodori river. The earliest known historical references to Apselia are from the writings of Pliny the Elder (1st century CE) and Flavius Arrian (2nd century CE), who referred to the region as Apsilae (Greek: Αψιλαι). ==History== The first known record of the Apsilae occurs in the writings of Pliny of the 1st century AD, as well as of Flavius Arrianus in the 2nd century ().
Duchers
thumb|The lands of the Daur people|Dauri, Ducheri, and Goguli in the mid-17th century, according to [[Ernst Georg Ravenstein]]
Kott people
ethnic group in Siberia
Asan people
ethnic group of Siberia