Tofalar
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The Tofalar (also Karagas or Tofa; Тофалары, тофа (tofa) in Russian) people are a Turkic people who live in Tofalariya, in the southwestern part of Nizhneudinsky District, Irkutsk Oblast of Russia. The Tofalar population is highly mixed with Russians due to the presence of Russian settlers and high rates of intermarriage.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- TofalarТоъфа
- Ethnic group.image
- 200px|A group of Tofalars
- Ethnic group.population
- 762 (2010)
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Irkutsk Oblast (Siberia, Russia)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 719 (2021)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 18 (2001)
- Ethnic group.rels
- Shamanism, Russian Orthodox Christianity, Animism
- Ethnic group.langs
- Tofalar, Russian
- Ethnic group.related
- Tozhu Tuvans, Dukhans, Soyot
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- Population
- 762
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- Etymology
- History
- Origins
- Russian imperial expansion
- Soviet collectivization
- Post Soviet collapse
- Language
- Culture
- Subsistence
- Entertainment
- Traditional medicine
- Death
- Society
- Religion
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The Tofalar (also Karagas or Tofa; Тофалары, тофа (tofa) in Russian) people are a Turkic people who live in Tofalariya, in the southwestern part of Nizhneudinsky District, Irkutsk Oblast of Russia. The Tofalar population is highly mixed with Russians due to the presence of Russian settlers and high rates of intermarriage.
Prior to Soviet rule, the Tofalar led a nomadic lifestyle in the taiga, engaging in reindeer husbandry and hunting. Afterwards, they were resettled by the Soviet government and forced to adopt sedentarism and were discouraged from practicing hunting and shamanism. According to the 2010 census, there were 762 Tofalar in Russia.