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The Moksha group have traditionally inhabited the south of Mordovia. The traditional female costume is colourful and original. The long tunic-shaped blouse is decorated with blue or red embroidery. T...
The Dolgans only emerged as an ethnic group between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as a result of their intermixing with other nationalities – Evenk, Yakut, Enets and Russian. They assimil...
The Evenks are the largest ethnic group inhabiting the Russian Arctic. Over thirty thousand are scattered across Central and Eastern Siberia. Their alphabet was first written in Latin script in 1931 ...
The northernmost ethnic group in the Russian Federation is the Nganasans. Only numbering around 1,200 people, they live in the tundra of the Taimyr Peninsula, inside the 72nd parallel. They are desce...