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Soviet Union [USSR] Others
In addition to the nationalities discussed in the preceding
pages, many other nationalities with populations of fewer than 1
million have been recognized by Soviet authorities. Several of the
larger nationalities not previously mentioned had autonomous
republics of their own: the Buryat, the Yakut, the Ossetian, the
Komi, the Tuvinian, the Kalmyk, and the Karelian nationalities.
Also, two pairs of nationalities, the Chechen-Ingush and the
Kabardian-Balkar, each shared an autonomous republic. About
eighteen nationalities lived either in autonomous oblasts or in
autonomous okruga. All of these nationalities resided in the
Russian Republic. In many cases, Russians had either a majority or
a plurality of the population in these autonomous territorial
units. Numerous other nationalities without an administrative
territory of their own lived scattered throughout the Soviet Union,
generally in the Russian Republic.
Data as of May 1989
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