The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook

19th cent Abaza Abkhaz Adygei Altai Andi-Dido assimilated ASSR Avar Azerbaidzhan Balkar Bashkirs Belorussian Buryat Caucasic language family Central Asia Chechen Cherkess Chuvash Circassian closely related considered a distinct Cossacks Crimean Tatar culturally Cyrillic script Dagestan Dargin dialect Dido distinct ethnic group division Dungan Dzhek Eastern Orthodox Estonian ETHN ethnographic group Evenk Georgian Ingush Izhmi Kabard Kaitak Kalmyk Karakalpak Karelian Kazakh Khakass Khant Kirgiz Koibal Komi Komi Permyak Koryak Kurds Kypchak language belongs Latvian Lezgin linguistically literary language Lithuanian live Mari Mongol Mordvinian Moslem in religion Mountain Jew mutually intelligible Nanai Nenets Nganasan Nogai North Caucasus northern Oblast Orthodox in religion Ossetian Ostyak Pamir Permyak population primarily region River Russian Samoyed Selkup Shahdag shamanist-animist Shor Siberia southern Soviet speak a distinct spel Sunni Moslem Tadzhik Teleut Tofalar Turkic Turkmen Turks Tuvinian Udmurt Uigur Ukrainian Ulchi Uralo-Altaic language family USSR Uzbek Volga western Yakut Yukagir