Russians

Name: Russians: census figures, languages and lineage
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Русские · Q49542

language area per Glottologcensus counts

105,579,179

in Russia, 2021 census

Indo-European

language family (Glottolog)

In brief

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 105,579,179 people identified with the nationality "Русские" (Russians)¹. That is 80.85% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 25 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Russian. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.

Russia, 2021 census

Sex

Men 48,442,296 · 45.9%Women 57,136,883 · 54.1%

Urban and rural

Urban 80,574,272 · 76.3%Rural 25,004,907 · 23.7%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Moscow (city)

9,074,375

Moscow Oblast

6,873,903

Krasnodar Krai

5,121,482

Saint Petersburg (city)

4,275,058

3,606,327

3,602,400

2,659,734

2,526,414

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

2,448,926

Krasnoyarsk Krai

2,382,723

Groups counted within this nationality

Cossacks50,490 Pomors2,232

Source [1]: Rosstat, 2020 census, vol. 5, table 1

Languages and their lineage

Russian

Indo-Europeanindo1319
Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
Balto-Slavicbalt1263
Slavicslav1255
East Slaviceast1426
Russianruss1263

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Marathi Germans Spaniards Mexicans English Irish Americans Italians Romanians Nepali (Khas-Arya)Dutch Belarusians Czechs Scots Serbs Bulgarians Cubans Brazilians Welsh Greeks Macedonians Armenians Ukrainians Slovaks

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)
Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)