How Diverse is Russia? - Russia's Republics Explained 

Just a quick disclaimer here, this is not supposed to be a video about politics. Unfortunately, it's next to impossible to highlight the points I wanted to highlight here without somehow starting a flame war, so please just know that I'm only /mentioning/ these certain things for educational purposes, not advocating for one side or the other.

Yup, Russia touches North Korea. And the longest train journey you can take goes through Russia and ends in Pyongyang. I went to Vladivostok by train. It was lovely

Fun fact about Udmurtiya, the Udmurt people have the highest percentage of gingers or red heads, even higher then Scotland and Ireland

"How diverse is Russia?" As a russian, I'd say yes

"Why is Liechtenstein not here" Ah, Liechtenstein, my favorite Russian Republic

The World: "So how many ethnic groups are there?" Russia: "Yes"

Stalin wasn't even Russian. He was Georgian. Ironic.

Thanks for the video, friend! I'm from Yakutia. And yes, we have our own flag, our own Sakha language, our own anthem and our own holidays. We even had Latin-based alphabet in the beginning of the 20 century, but it was changed to cyrillic-based.

Автор, Калининградская область это признанная всеми странами территории Российской Федерации, здесь у тебя ошибка вышла...

Fun fact about Kalmykia, it's also the only Buddhist majority "country" in Europe.

Tannu Tuva May be the most popular nation in the world but we all now that The *Glorious Thunder Dragon Empire* of Bhutan is the most powerful nation ever to grace this earth.

Love to my uralic brothers and sisters- and the rest of Russia- on the other side of the border! From Finland 🇫🇮❤️🇷🇺

Смотрю какой-то забугорный гид по своей же стране. Л - логика

There even used to be a Volga German republic

Don’t forget the Ainu peoples of the Kuril Islands and Hokkaido. Yes Russia stretches far enough to have an ongoing territory dispute with Japan.

Every region of Russia has its own anthem!

I read in an old book Russia has 108 nationalities in it's borders. That is huge for one country.

One note: many republics are heavily assimilated, meaning that, while they may be different ethnically from the Slavic Russians, they are very similar to them culturally.

3:01 Coolest anthem ive ever heard.

To be fair to Russia throughout its history, its likely one of the most culturaly diverse nations in the world. Even if its dominated and authority driven by the slavic Russians

Greetings from Tatarstan(Russia)))) With love for everyone♥️🕊️

7:28 But Stalin himself wasn't Russian. He is even speak Russian with strong accent.

"Tannu What?"

“Crimea not made with one specific ethnic group in mind” Crimea Tatars: hold my beer

I’m from Siberia and I look pretty Asian compared to my Russian adopted brothers who are from the same orphanage I’m from . I always wondered about the diversity in Russia or why I look the way I do compared to my brothers. I’m from Krasnoyarsk and idk if there’s more Europeans or Asians there. Maybe even both which could explain why I look Asian

You mentioned Turkmenistan, does this mean we're getting an updated vid about the country and Gurbanguly? You should show the President's songs

The Sakha Republic (Yakutia) I'd the largest subdivision of a country in the world, between the sizes of Argentina and India.

Русские настолько суровы что учат географию своей страны по видео иностранцев

I'm glad to see such educational videos about my country, that's cool to let people know that not only ethnical russians live here but lots of very different peoples. By the way, I'm developping one site with recipes of all national cuisines of russia (now there's 70 cuisines or something).

Perfectly Explained video, especially great job destroying the stereotypes of Russia being all-Slavic country. (Slavs, Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Chukchis, Yakuts, etc)

Russian Guy: "Celebrate your cultures!" Georgian Guy: "All non Russians gtfo"

Good job! 👏 thank you 🙏 from Russia (Buryatiya Republic)

Respect to the Turkic people in Russia. From Turkey🇹🇷

*angry Sakhalin screaming because of the map in the begining * Also it is "sevastOpol"

The war of the Doomsday will be Tannu Tuva vs Iceland

2:15 Autonomous Okrugs are formally parts of some oblasts, for example, Nenets AO is formally part of Arkhangelsk oblast; KhMAO and YaNAO are both formally part of Tyumen oblast. Chukotka AO used to be formally a part of Magadan oblast, but later it was made a separate region, without changing the type of subdivision, for some reason.

The Crimean Republic wasn’t made with a specific ethnic group in mind, but it’s easy to assume that Crimean Tatar would be most likely.

Average citizen of Russia. Dreams to travel the world. Plans to travel his home country first. Dies without finishing to travel all parts of Russia.

I bet Hearts of Iron IV created the Tannu Tuva meme.

Educational video for all people. I live in Udmurtia and did not even know about some regions. thanks)

Блин, так мило с иностранцев в комментариях, люблю вас ❤

I find the turkic and uralic groups quite interesting and underdocumented

Thank you! This video is overwhelmingly informative and very well done.

Him: Mentions life of Boris Me:Ah I see you’re a man of culture as well!

made me realize how russia is even more complicated than the holy roman empire

Very interesting topic! Very often people don't remember that how diverse the humanity really is. There is so often much smaller groups and tribes inside bigger nation states.

I really like this channel, you learn so much about subjects not regularly discussed.

You forget about Kaliningrad in the first map.

Good video and simple explanation of the Russian geographical system and the actually very diverse groups of people, cultures and languages that exist there. And you do a great job of keeping the politics out of it! The more I started to learn about Russia the more it fascinated me and I was lucky to go during the World Cup last summer, it was the most amazing of trips, but I want to go back many times and explore different parts of the country all the way to the easternmost parts. Westerners know way too little about what the real Russia really is like. It annoys me a lot every time I do hear some far-right/nationalist group mention Russia as some sort of homogenous nationalist state and see it as some sort of "protector of the white race" when the truth is the complete opposite of that. It's the multicultural and multiethnic country that they hate, not without problems, like in Chechnya, but mostly it seems to work fine. I was in Kazan, it's really multiethnic AND multireligious. You had the mosque in Kazan in this clip, and more or less right next to it is a church. And Russia do take in immigrants as well, just that it's mostly from the former Soviet countries in Central Asia and so on. It's a shame we don't know more about the biggest country in the world, and one of the most powerful/influential. No matter what we think about the leaders of Russia, I'm not getting into that either, we should learn more about it.

The Uralic people’s casually chilling in the coldest place on Earth for 7000 years

I really liked it dude, I never thought that Russia had so many republics inside

This topic really deserves to be better known. Paul Barbato from Geography Now channel actually did a similar video some time ago, as one of the special filler episodes. I'd say that your videos complement each other. He presented more details about each republic, but you did a better job with presenting the historical context, explaining the administrative divisions of the Russian Federation in general, systematizing the material by grouping the republic linguistically, and you had some top-quality humor. ;)

Really cool, this is a subject I look into on my own so it’s really nice to see a video on this. Great work!

I am from Tatarstan!!! Thank you! No one talks about us! Рехмәт🤗

Russia is a multinational country, and we are proud of it!

The republics aren't the only subjects of Russia to have their own anthems, but the republics' anthems tend to be the best. Same goes for flags and state emblems. That instrumental version of the anthem of Ingushetia used as the soundtrack for this video sounds like it's from a loading screen for a PS1 game or something. Love it. Круто видео, молодец! ))

The "Why is Liechtenstein not here?"-Comment killed me :D

Привет из Башкортостана!)

That Tuvan anthem was glorious

IMPORTANT NOTE: There are no such “finno-ugric” peoples. Fino-ugric is a language group, not a genetically describable kind of peoples. We share the same base grammatics, methods of our languages, but there is no (considerable) genetic relationship. This is a very important distinction because many uneducated people believe that finno-ugric (linguistic) relations are bullshits. Also chauvinist groups along with the Hungarian government try to mix the facts intentionally. So, anybody who reads this comment, spread the word! (Btw great vid, like from Hungary)

0:23 Where is my Kaliningrad???

You pronounce the words very well, good job!

1:07 Qul Sharif Mosque in Kazan. Aka Cool Sheriff for those who can speak English :))) Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan. Tatarstan is a republic and part of Russia. It has Tatar as one of its official languages along with Russian. Tatars are the second largest ethnic group in Russia, only falling behind Russians. Tatars are Turkic, i.e. related to Turkish, Azeri, Kazakh, Uzbec etc (though might look like Europeans or Asians or both), most are considered to be Muslims, but religion is just a cultural phenomenon, not something that governs people’s lives. And many people celebrate Christian Easter, Muslim Kurban, Anglo-American Halloween and even Hindu Holi. Tatarstan is one of the fastest developing regions in Russia. It was the first to introduce electronic government, for example. You can interact with most of the governmental agencies with your thumb swiping your smartphone screen. Tatarstan is a huge contributor to Russian aviation, chemical, automotive and lots of other industries. In 2013, Kazan hosted the Universiade. Unlike other cities after other major sports events like the Olympic games, Kazan manages to use the infrastructure, built for the Unicersiade, in Kazan’s daily life. Nothing’s left empty as far as I know.

1:09 As a life of Boris fan I approve this. 👍

Nice video! A video on the cultures in India would be interesting!

Great work dude!

"For those that don't know much about history, Russia is a big, monolithic, Slavic country. For those that do, Russia is still a big, monolithic, Slavic country, but most people just live in the Western most quarter" Lol totally agree

Thanks mate! You clear many doubts about this complex country. Greetings from Chile! 🇨🇱

Question:Why don't all jews live on the chinese border?

Russia is the most diverse country in the world without taking into account migration. that all these groups identify as russians is nothing short of a miracle.

Very good information. Good job presenting it.

Make a video specifically about the Uralic people and how they got to such different places as Finland and Hungary

Fun fact, Russia is so big you can fit all of Africa, half of Mars, every single football stadium in the world and at least four Russias into it at once.

Great stuff, and I thought I didn't like history-geography when I was in High School (secondary school). Thank you!!

Love from Dagestan ❤ (No, really, I'm from Dagestan, I'm Lezgin) Lezgin language and Russian language are so different lol

What if the separate republics got Independence during the collapse of the Soviet Union, I find it ironic Stalin was Georgian yet made everything Russian

0:11 You forgot to include those two islands as part of Estonia (as well as Kaliningrad as a part of Russia). My favorite republic within Russia is Tuva because of Tannu Tuva and all the HOI4 memes surrounding it (and their throat singing is fascinating). I also like Sakha because they're the most isolated Turkic group. I have Russian ancestry from both sides of the Urals (Siberia from my very small Native American percentage, and St. Petersburg)

The Sevastopol being a city of importance reveal was nuts tbh

3:00 ideal choice of anthem, you picked the literal best anthem in the entire world and I could argue for months on this

Caucasus countries and territories: We have so much linguistic diversity in our mountainous lands! New Guinea: Hold my beer.

0:01 and nothing can go wrong 0:02 OH NO IT ALL WENT WRONG

That sound effect was great. One second in, and I am cackling. Great work.

I am so glad he mentioned the tuva anthem. Absolute masterpiece.

Thanks for the whirlwind tour. I didn't learn anything, facts flew by like twigs in a hurricane. I could study it, play, rewind, play, rewind, play, rewind, repeat, but that would be exhausting. But this inspired me to learn about Russians and areas.

7:20 And some ethnic groups got their own SSRs, like Karelia for around a decade and the 14 non-Russian SSRs that broke away from the Soviet Union.

Очень познавательно!👍

One of the most striking concepts I learned in my Russian Studies class is that Russia and the US are like funhouse mirror images of each other. Damn near every defining feature of one can also be applied to the other.

Oh охуеть there is my country круто

3:00 interesting anthem

Immediately smashed thumbs up when spotting Boris.

This video earns my subscription

0:11 You left out KALININGRAD!

Didn't forget about The Republic of Tuva, Altai and Sakha. Nice to see!

I'm Mari( my native language is also Mari), Finno Ugrian, I have actually russian name Rostislav, tatar surname AKHMADishin and I live in Bashkortostan))) Hello from Russia, land of diversity. But sooner everybody will become Russians, since only Russians is a folk that constructs country according to our new constitution

Congratulations, u just won a new subscriber

i didnt know most of that. good work!

Tannu Tuva kinda looks like Austria if Austria controlled Slovenia and South Tyrol

Так интересно привет из Запаный Сибирь

Интересное видео получилось, хоть и ничего нового не открыла для себя. Привет из Республики Якутия! Мы все такие разные, но мы все РОССИЯНЕ, хорошо жить одной большой страной.

I hope you add more languages ​​to the translation+ nice video