Titular Nations
This sublist includes indigenous peoples of Russia which are titular nations, i.e., peoples who gave rise to the names of national entities: independent states or autonomous areas.
- Adyghe, titular for Adygea
- Altay people, titular for Altai Republic, Altai Krai
- Bashkirs, titular for Bashkortostan
- Balkars, Kabardino-Balkaria
- Belarusians, indigenous in Smolensk and Bryansk Oblasts (see Belarusians in Russia), titular for Belarus
- Buryat people, titular for Buryatia, Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug and Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug
- Chechens, Chechnya
- Chuvash, Chuvashia
- Circassians, Karachay–Cherkessia
- Ingushs, Ingushetia
- Kabardins, Kabardino-Balkaria
- Kalmyks, Kalmykia
- Karachays, Karachay–Cherkessia
- Karelians, Karelia
- Khakas, Khakassia
- Komi peoples, Komi Republic
- Mordvin people, Mordovia
- Ossetians, North Ossetia (Russia), South Ossetia
- Russians, titular for Russia
- Mari people, titular for Mari El
- Tatars, titular for Tatarstan
- Tuvinians, titular for Tuva
- Udmurts, titular for Udmurtia
- Ukrainians, indigenous in Krasnodar, Rostov, Stavropol, Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, and Bryansk Oblasts (see Ukrainians in Russia and Ukrainians in Kuban), titular for Ukraine
- Yakuts (self-designation: Sakha), titular for Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
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