In brief
In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 946,172 people identified with the nationality "Армяне" (Armenians)1. That is 0.72% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.
Rosstat also assigns 30 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).
Main language: Eastern Armenian. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.
Russia, 2021 census
Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers
Groups counted within this nationality
Source [1]: Rosstat, 2020 census, vol. 5, table 1
Official figures from other countries
Figures from different countries do not add up: censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry). The type is shown on each figure.
Languages and their lineage
Eastern Armenian
- Indo-Europeanindo1319
- Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
- Armenicarme1241
- Eastern-Western Armenianeast2768
- Eastern Armeniannucl1235
People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.
Sources
- Rosstat. National composition of the population of the Russian Federation. Results of the 2020 All-Russian Population Census (reference date 1 October 2021), vol. 5, table 1. Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx (archived copy)
- Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь (Belstat). Статистический обзор ко Всемирному дню народонаселения (2019 census counts), 07.07.2023. https://www.belstat.gov.by/upload-belstat/upload-belstat-pdf/oficial_statistika/statobzor_…
- Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)