[OS] Percentage of ethnic Russians in Russia by district, according to 2010 census [6,199 × 3,547].
![[OS] Percentage of ethnic Russians in Russia by district, according to 2010 census [6,199 × 3,547].](http://s015.radikal.ru/i331/1602/1f/f409d312ce57.png)
Posted May 21, 2016, 5:44 PM UTC
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You can compare this map with a map based of the results of the 1989 census.
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So does the difference come from people identifying themselves as Russians more now?
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Probably yes. In Soviet times ethnicity was fixed and put in passports, while now anyone is free to declare one's ethnicity, which has led to many Russified non-Russians to switch to Russian.
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A century of Russification is finally paying off.
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Welp, it's official, we've come full circle
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So are those two landlocked pockets Kazakhstani and Mongolian people that moved across the border?
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That depends on where they are. They are divided among three ethnic republics which from west to east are Altai, Tuva and Buryatia. In the Altai Republic, the white district has a Kazakh majority with a large Altaic minority. In the Tuva republic the white districts are almost entirely Tuvins. In Buryatia the white districts is about evenly split between Buryats and Soyots, a small ethnic group that originally spoke a language similar to Tuvin, but now speak Buryat. Almost all Soyots live in fact in this district.
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Which pockets are you referring to? There seems to be more than two.
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Only 2 are land locked though. The others are on the Caspian Sea, Atlantic, arctic, or Pacific oceans
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Maybe this will make it more clear?
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Originally created and published here by N. Avdeev, republished to Reddit under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license (see here, bottom of the page). His commentary about parts of the map can be read on his livejournal page (in Russian), along with other demographic maps of Russia.
Cities marked by a circle are city districts which are independent from the surrounding larger district and their population is counted separately. Cities marked by a square are other significant settlements which are part of the surrounding district and their population is included in that of the district.