Russians
Russians are an ethnic group and nation native to Russia. They are the world’s largest Slavic ethnic group. 14% of Russians live in the former Soviet Union states, especially in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Most Russians are Orthodox Christians.[1]
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| Regions with significant populations | |
 Russia | |
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| Russian | |
| Religion | |
| Russian Orthodox, Atheism |
Russians Media
Map of the Russian people around the world. (The map might include people with Russian ancestry or citizenship and also people from origins other than Russian, like Russian-Germans, Russian-Jews or Russian-Polish)* Russia*
Grandma's Fairy Tales, by Vassily Maximov
Percentage of ethnic Russians by federal subjects of Russia according to the 2010 census:* above 80%
Ethnic Russians in former Soviet Union states in 1994
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in Paris, the resting place of many eminent Russian émigrés after 1917
Lipovans in the Danube Delta
Leo Tolstoy's (1828–1910) notable works include the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction.
Dmitri Mendeleev (1837–1906) is best known for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements.
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