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
@@LogBarc No ethnicity on earth has majority red hair, but the top 3 ethnicities with the highest proportion of redheads are Udmurts, Scots and Irishmen.
@Adam Black Is Russia unitary? Russia is not a unitary country (federation). In a unitary country, by definition, there can be no autonomous republics. Ukraine has been freed from this shortcoming because it is a unitary country))
@@heinrichvonskalitz819 Crimea is a republic, but it's populated by Russians (about 70%) .Krasnodarsky krai is also mostly Russian. Tatarstan (Republic) has about 40% Russians and about 18% ukrainians. Etc... So many republics prefer to speak Russian although they may have some special natonal traditions and colors.
@@Алексей_Тверской чувак, россия - унитарная страна, как бы официально - да, мы вроде как зовемся федерацией, но весь федерализм был уничтожен путиным в начале 2000ых и при всей моей нелюбви к нему, я считаю, это было правильным решением.
@Русс град нет, я русская. Не понимаю твоего батхёрта насчёт разницы в несколько процентов. К тому же РФ многонациональное и светское государство - это в конституции написано. Если бы наша страна была мононациональной, то она называлась бы примерно как: "Русская/Российская национальная/народная республика". Но мы федерация, как и Германия.
@Русс град русские вымирают и лет через 350 станут если не меньшинством то половиной в своей стране, тюрки и в особенности кавказцы размножаются в геометрической прогрессии. Москву ждёт учесть Константинополя, русских вырежут под корень и Россия станет Кавказстанией
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.
I think you have a problems with understanding marxism and communism, and he made everthing for all peoples of the USSR, making free schol with a many alfabets for no writing ethnic group.
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.
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.
@Mor Dor Chechnya is on the opposite side of the spectrum: it is the most culturally distinct republic. Most of the Caucasus is distinct, as is Tatarstan. But then you have areas like Mari El, Udmurtia or Komi, where most of the population speaks Russian as their first language and adheres to Orthodoxy. They are Finno-Ugric which also helps (as even the Slavic Russians are very Finnicised). As for the religion, you are forgetting about the legacy of the Soviet Union - in many areas the population has been secularised to the point that religious differences are no linger important. Again, this is not true for some regions like Chechnya, but in Buryatia for example religion is a non-issue.
@Александр Дорохов У меня довольно много знакомых из республик. Какие-нибудь коми и мордвины вообще практически неотличимы от русских, с какими-нибудь бурятами все получше, но и они сильно ассимилированы - сами мне объясняли. Есть более консервативные районы, там сохранилась традиционная бурятская культура, буддизм и т.д., а есть более русфицированные, там православие и собственно русских тоже прилично
@Mor Dor Religion really is a non-issue in Tatarstan and Bashkiria. Most muslims there don't take religion very serious, often keep it to themselves and generally don't like to talk about it. My ex-gf was tatar and her father, a Muslim, was even drinking alcohol and eating pork, which isn't that abnormal there. Going ahead and taking Chechnya as example for all Muslims in Russia is just silly
@Mor Dor Religions does not play as big role in Russia nowadays as it does in many other historically Christian nations. I know an atheist from Christian Orthodox family who married Muslim Tatar woman, and both their families had no problem with it
Not when you know the World is not a Ball but a FLAT Surface and then the lands beyond the Equator line become much bigger than the lands placed at the North which shrink its fictious size given by our official but deceptive evil Authorities for the sake of money and our perpetual slavery.
@@raymundowellington6592 you are decieved. The Earth is TRIANGLE shaped. I know the truth. The Flat earth theory is spread out by the ELITES who rule the world! TheY want to hide the TRUTH that tje Earth is a triangle!
@ Obama great grandparents were Americans Obama is half white Stalin was born and raised on Georgia with both Georgian parents, Then moved to Russia. Stalin is working class Obama is upper class Stalin came to power with Lenin through Revolution Obama came to power through plutocracy election Sorry dude but your argument is invalid.
@@samfreelancer2657 Georgia was part of the Russian Empire. And if you did not know in tsarist Russia there were no elections. Communism looks more democratic than monarchy
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
Глупо говорить что доминируют руские в истории правления России . были немцы такие как Екатерина 2 которая вообще до сознательного возраста не жила в России. Как и Сталин человек не "русской" национальности они стремились создать сильное государство.
Тебе стоит учитывать, что малые этнические группы, коих 46 миллионов из 156 миллионов (из которых 110-115 миллионов русские) живут в суровых климатических условиях, где рождаемость невысокая, и как правило эти регионы зависимы от европейской части страны, потому что элементарно себя обеспечить не смогут из-за нехватки населения и нормальных условий для выращивания еды. Да, подавляющее большинство славяне, однако прежде всего - сильное государство, а потом уже всё остальное.
@Parma zyxwvu Its not understandable by hearing, i only could make out a few words and barely understood they are turkic. But in written form the only diffirent word is "Endless" (Sonsuz-Mönge). Needless to say grammar is almost same thinking that they are two diffirent languages
Perfectly Explained video, especially great job destroying the stereotypes of Russia being all-Slavic country. (Slavs, Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Chukchis, Yakuts, etc)
Открою небольшой секрет, у каждого города, у каждой почти структуры есть свои песни, праздники. Например день пограничника 28 мая, у них классный гимн послушай! У России очень большие границы, поэтому пограничников уважают ( за их не лёгкую службу )
@@gamermapper I think he means that the country is so big, that it takes more than a lifetime to see. Since it's almost twice as big as the US. It's said that the majority of inhabitants of Istanbul never have seen the the mediterranean sea - so what people see is an individual choice.
Greetings from the Southern Urals! Not many at all, in fact more than 250) Strength is in unity. Our culture is strongly mixed with each other, for example, after the Slavic Ivan Kupala, we celebrate the Bashkir Sabantuy together with our Bashkir brothers
More than 185 nationalities live. This is normal, Russians live in the European part, small groups in the Asian part mostly. There's nothing embarrassing about it.
Imre Kovacs Okay Balkan back to the shithole you go
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@Finnic Patriot What does it matter that cultural traditions get forgotten for others? As long as it's done without force, that is entirely natural. Even the most ancient traditions likely supplanted or lost other traditions over time. Cry about Russia forcing the issue with intentional Russification via population swaps, not about standard assimilation. All countries do that.
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@Finnic Patriot Why??? That's how countries maintain stability. Countries with a myriad of cultures can find loyalty outside the borders; making internal stability a nightmare. Forcing the issue is screwed up, but at least doing it passively is practically what it means to be a decent nation-state. The US in particular is stellar at that passive assimilation, though I suppose that's what you were talking about in being critical about the US for -though to me that is an absolutely great thing that most countries should try to emulate. One people. Different colors. All under one flag with similar language and way of thinking. That's how countries stick together.
@evansdrad The celtic nationalist Mongols and Turkish people as far as my knowledge goes are from the same ancestoral race,before the Turkish people migrated all around the world Turkish people were mostly dominant in Central Asia but after Turkish people migrated Mongols grew in size and power
@@ahmetilberbektas60 mongols are not Turkic, neither in language nor in looks. They have a lot of things in common due to occupying roughly the same area, but it's still very easy to distinguish them. I'm even pretty sure that you wouldn't be able to tell tatars and other Europeans apart :) greetings from bashkiria, btw
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
А все остальные идите нахер?!? 😂 У вас что разногласие есть?! Да!! Мы не турки За то будем жить и существовать, сами по себе Эй турок, что вы и ваше правительство сделали для НАС ?! Ничего😂
joshua the Holy Roman Empire wasn’t that complicated they were all german and some Italians back in the early days when it actually included Rome. Russia’s history is complicated but not compared to a country like England, although it’s not as simple as, say, France
@@TheLocalLt well, my perception of what "complicated" was, is affected by my lack of understanding of some concepts, like the idea of "feudalism", so yeah for me HRE is complicated and afaik
joshua how does feudalism make the HRE complicated? It was a german speaking empire dominated by Catholics, but this led to many civil wars during the reformation and left the emperor relatively powerless in the Protestant states by the end. The only real confusing part is that other powers had holdings in the HRE, including paying tribute to the Habsburg Kaiser, but the holdings effectively operated as part of these other powers. Prussia, the only German speaking power besides the HRE, even had its capital in the part of its territory that paid tribute to the Habsburgs. But all the other hundreds of principalities paid tribute to the emperor and going against the emperor would be a cause for war, so the idea that Germany wasn’t united until 1871 is ridiculous. Germany was more united under the habsburgs than it is now! It’s just the level of centralization was low. But today’s Germany doesn’t include Austria, Switzerland, the Low Countries, the Balkans (not de jure HRE territory but ruled by the HRE), Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein. The HRE was very powerful until the 1500s, but was plagued by constant civil wars after that.
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.
Dear guest, visit Dagestan someday! It is the most multinational region in Russia, located between the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea. There are UNESCO architectural sites (the town of Derbent), high-altitude old auls (settlements; as Khunzakh, Tarki, Akusha, Gunib, Kubachi, Gamsutle, Gotsatl, Akhti, Salta, Sogratle and others), the national culture of different peoples, various dishes, Caucasian dances (I can show examples on TH-cam), the beautiful Sulak canyon, the sand dune of Sary-Kum, the picturesque Khunzakh waterfall (Tobot). And the most important wealth of Dagestan is its people. They are very hospitable (this is the national custom of the Caucasian highlanders and eastern peoples), responsive, cheerful, friendly (Derbent in 2006 received the UNESCO prize as the most tolerant town in the world) and are carriers of ancient history and distinctive culture.
That's why ruzzian federation sends buryats, chechens, tatars etc to war with Ukraine💩💩 While it would be better if they fought against the real enemy - russia
The Nazi is awake. Buryats, Chechens, Tatars are Russia. In our beautiful rich language, there are two designations of nationality and belonging to the state. The word - Rossiya is the second designation. But since it is not in English, I say "Russia". This is our strength. In our great country, every people has the right to communicate in their native language, while in your "European", "Western", "liberal" Ukraine laws are introduced that prohibit the teaching of national minorities of their native languages. It's not just Russians. These are Romanians, Hungarians, Poles. Maybe that's why the Buryats, Chechens and Tatars are fighting for Rossiya, because they don't want Bandera's fans to come to them. I think I answered your stupid saying exhaustively. Ukraine is their enemy, not Rossiya.
@@ИльяЛисицин-ш6н do you live in a national republic? And if you do, do you know the local state language? The answer is 99% no. Why yakuts know russian while russians don't even try to learn the basics of Yakut language? And what's the point for them to fight for a country that is thousands kilometers far away and did nothing bad for them? While Russia cancels their culture, their native language and purses their national leaders
@@theearth4529 Well, if you think about it, yes, it's a little wrong, but in multinational countries where one nation rules, it's normal. Why do people who live in California not always know Spanish?
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).
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
@@auauvirus вот я и говорю что это калька с родины матери, но мои иностранные знакомые часто спрашивают как именно по русски звучит слово motherland. они уверены что это прямой перевод. и притом они не американцы от которых этого ожидаешь,а немцы, финны и датчане
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.
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! ))
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. ;)
Jews live dispersed because that way they can't get exterminated at one go. It is a self preservation thing. Plus they do live even in China since even Columbus was born and Europe knew what a soap is. Them and the Chinese are the only link we have with the ancient times.
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.
And I want to add this thing azeris live in Iran not in Azerbaijan.Azerbaijan is a Turk nation not Azeri.Stalin added this "Azeri" word due sepereting Azerbaijan and Turkey.And we always say "one nation two states" each other.
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)
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
He didn't make everything Russian that's simply not true. Modern historians can pretty much make up whatever they want about Stalin and people will believe it.
JoséTheGMan 52 1 thing I will say is Stalin did not like the Caucasian republics so he decided to deport most of the population especially people of ingushetia and Chechenya
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.
i am mishar tatarian and my little homeland is Nizhegorodskaya oblast, in Russian it is over 190 nationalities and subethnos. I love Russia and don't like reddit's "sofa-separatism".
"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
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.
Ещё в Татарстане изобрели трёх кодовые компьютеры они работали быстрее и дешевле были но их решили не выпускать в массовое производство потомучто у всех были двоичные
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.
Russia and the United States are similar only in a device under the type of a federal state, otherwise they are diametrically different states, the United States is a state that destroyed the Indian population by genocide, while Russia, on the contrary, multiplied and educated, equalizing rights, the non-Russian population of Russia. The United States is a state that has built its well-being on the slave labor of millions of black Africans, and Russia has built its future on equality and justice between all the peoples inhabiting Russia! In the United States, branches of the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazis are quietly working, but in Russia you will not see this!
@@SoIDubTheeUnforgiven The most relevant similarity is that both countries are considered very diverse, but simultaneously have a hegemonic culture which dominates them. They are both continent-spanning countries created through expansionism and subjugation of people already living on that land.
This is why I love Russia so much. There's such a great diversity of cultures, peoples, landscapes, religions, etc... So many countries in only one. But, will this hold on or will Russia one day explose like the USSR did with all those republics becoming independant. Future will tell us.
Do you mind if I write further in Russian? It just became possible to translate comments. And by the way, I immediately warn you that the translation may be incorrect, which is why the meaning of the words changes in my head. К большому сожалению, да и этот процесс неизбежен из-за очень много этнических групп, хотя в том же СССР пытались установить Интернационализм. Распад бывает обычно, когда у народов самосознание просыпается, что произошло у украинцев, белорусов, балтии, казахов и так далее в Советском Союзе. Также в Югославии у Хорватов, боснийцев и другие тоже проснулись самосознание и они проявили резкий национализм в отличии от СССР. и Скоро тоже самое ждёт и РФ рано или поздно, башкиры и татары буквально орут чтобы их страны показывали на карте мира отдельно от России. У Чечни была попытка, но потом произошло сами знаете чего. Любая страна потерпит крах. У Украины тоже такая судьба, но это уже из-за разных взглядов население
@@SlavaZukin в СССР ничего подобного не было до начала перестройки. Людям по большей части все равно на национальные и расовые признаки, их настраивают против других людей политики и власть, которым это выгодно
Половину из республик в нутри России, у них нет границ с другими государствами. Так что даже если республики выйдут из состава РФ, то они будут зависить от России. Так как нет выхода к морям, и странам.
@@alexmiller23 Ну это уже анклав будет. Нет ничего страшного, если государства будут закрыты Россией. Швейцария тоже своего рода анклав (в плане стран ЕС) И ничего, существует себе как Швейцария :)
@@SlavaZukin стран ЕС, и чего, ну Швейцария не в ЕС, один фиг подлизывает им. По сути у Швейцарии нет своего мнения. Ты хоть знаешь как политика устроена?
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)
2:03 Some Ukrainians hate to admit that their country's name comes from the word kray: edge or outskirts. They find it offensive. Some Russians find it offensive to admit that the word Rus was brought by the Vikings. Then I should be offended by the word Tatar which could stand for "enemy" in the olden days or "someone from the Tartar" (the abyss from the Greek mythology). Now that you translated kray as frontier, which has never come to my mind, Ukranians should be proud of this etymology: frontier dwellers - what could be more honourable?
It is vile for them that their nation as such did not exist until the 1890s, then, on the orders of Germany, a local professor singled out the population of the south-west of the country by linguistic deviation into a new " nation ". Later, the idea of a nation for them was advanced in the years of Lenin, and in general it is as if people from the region of Lapland in Finland I would call myself a different nation because we speak differently in beer halls than people in Helsinki pubs.
So why did Kiev exist as a capital trade centre nearly a thousand years before moscow became a city? Kievan Rus is not a frontier, mera, meshera, myroma, mordva & moksha are not slavonic of the mokshan swamps of zalesia, moscow spoken 300 years ago is language of Kievan rus (ukranian), modern russian was formalised with ussr, there is no empire, no ussr & a federation of republics of no power, only central power of the kremlin mafia, if you learn the language you'll understand more of the real history & not lies, Русь i Kii не мокша, Уkраiна есть, была i будет, я Руськii но я Уkpaiнец, не мокша радяньского мира лъжи, смерти и Zла раZZбитого корыто 😉
@@viktormogilin307 украинцам на протяжении долгого времени промывали головы переписанной историей, готовя к войне с Россией. Ещё до аннексии Крыма вам прививали ненависть к русским. Теперь терпите вытекающие из этого последствия, убогие 😉
Ukraina comes from Okraina, Okraina means edge of country, basically edge of Russia. Ukrainian as nationality formed lately in 20th century. Sorry that's just how is is.
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.
So did the Caucasian republics immediately after WWI, albeit briefly. The Central Asian republics are the only brand new inventions of the collapse of the USSR.
Well, if we go by that logic, Uzbekistan existed also as the Khanate of Khiva and Emirate of Bukhara, and Azerbaijan existed also, since the Safavid dynasty of Iran was Azeri, so technically, only 2 new countries got made. Turkmenistan which was ruled by the Uzbeks and Iranians before, and Kyrgizstan which was owned by the Uzbeks and Chinese.
How could I forget Ukraine and Belarus though. They first appeared as separate political entities after the Russian revolution, and had only developed a separate identity several decades earlier.
@@sowhat249 Both, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine existed (admittedly briefly) as units independent of the Russian authority towards the end of WWI and shortly afterwards. Western Belarus and Ukraine ended up part of Poland, the rest of them went to the Soviets, whereas Moldova (well, Bessarabia back then) was fully annexed by Romania. And I don't know why you even bring up Azerbaijan, I mentioned it as part of the Caucasian republics.
Turks are the fourth largest nation in the world, there are more than 300 + m Turks in the world. People think that Turks have only one country, but there are six independent Turkic states and There are a lot of autonomous Turkic Republics in Russia. In addition, Turks coming from Central Asia not Anatolia
the only regions of Russia with a strong separatist movements are in Caucasus. The regions like Tatarstan, Bashkortostan or Buryatia don't have so much support from the native population (try to tell me about tatar separatism when they just easily accepts the fact that their native language is being cut off from the school program)
RwEpNcA 2004 - I hope they do learn the Tatar language in Tatarstan. Why don’t more slavic Russians learn minority languages of the russian federation? I would if I was a slavic Russia living in Russia bc I think they’re fascinating.
85 federal subjects of russia 22 republics 46 oblasts (provinces) 4 okrugs (districts) 9 krais (regions) 3 autonomous cities and, the jewish autonomous oblast
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 want to learn more about russia and its cultures (especially because i am an american who is supposed to hate them for some reason). i have some language learning software that i have yet to get into so for now, only knowing english, i am looking for books/resources in english. to get a little more specific, i would love information from a russian perspective on the cold war and history that can be considered "modern" (which is kind of a nonsense term given how things evolve partitioning into eras is tough - so i guess im asking for something thats somewhere like 1600s-revolution) anyways, thanks for anything and if it helps i heard about you from jades 4 color map video
To see the Cold War from a different perspective, I suggest you to learn Russian and just literally type in "cold war documentary movie" in Russian into the TH-cam search bar. You should get a result immediately. Be aware that some of these documentaries may be biased, as a good chunk of Russians like to demonize the USSR too
in my comment, the line "especially because i am an american who is supposed to hate them for some reason" was intended as sarcasm to highlight the absurdity of the propaganda that has been continuously pumped into our (american) society from every direction for generations. in other words, i am not asking for the answer as to why russia/us relations are the way they are. im happy to discuss it, its just not what was intended.
@@olzhas1one755 everything is biased, its impossible to operate in any other way. see howard zinn and the idea of "staying neutral on a moving train". anyways, learning the language right now is too high a barrier, any other suggestions?
This was very informative. Thank you. There is one big BUT... While Russia calls itself a federal state, roughly 20 years ago it changed the system ending direct elections of the governors of the republics who would then be chosen by the Kremlin. So unlike genuine federal states, like in the United States where people in each state vote for their own governors and in Canada the people of each province vote for their Premier and they have independent governors an independent government in these internal states, Russia ended that and all the local governments are appointed by the Kremlin. One of the real benefits of having federal states is this genuine autonomy and even sometimes tug of war between the regional State and the federal government. While it does cause tension it does also give people in the regional state a certain autonomy that they can all feel that they are in a democratic system that gives them a voice. This is one of the great benefits of having a federal state eliminated this. So calling Russia a genuine federal state is not accurate because regional governments are appointed by the kremlin. If Russia does collapse at some point it will be in large part because of the decision to take away this power from the individual republics and oblasts etc, taking away even the sense of authority of the people in these individual republics.
@@AetherTheGenshin Because the project failed. Stalin didn't rule when the Soviet Union collapsed. It's not my assumption that Georgians love Stalin. The polls show this.
😬😬😬 It's a controversial statement about Crimea. Crimea has few native and mostly turkic peoples. It's just Russian government doesn't want to give a lot of attention to it because of the strategic importance of the region. Native Crimean ethnicities have vibrant cultures and rich histories. I would be happy to see a video on that topic on this channel!
Author, also there are 4 autonomic districts (okrugs) in Russia: Nenetskiy AO, Yamalo-Nenetskiy AO, Chukotskiy AO, Khanti-Mansiyskiy AO. Before Putin there were 7 or 9 AO.
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.
KhAnubis: *mentions sevastopol in a russian context*
Comments section: ARE YOU CHALLENGING ME?!?!
Long Live Tuva!
Even tho rebuplics can have their own official languages some dont 😢
@@alecity4877 You sound like an ass hat looking for problems.
LONG LIVE THE WINNING RIGHT WINNNNNG!!!!!!!
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
Dude I love your work!
Nice job great leader
Kim Jong-un hi Kim
when will you bomb USA ?
You mean the True Korea?
@@CactusCarrot Did you just attempt to correct our glorious leader?!?
Fun fact about Udmurtiya, the Udmurt people have the highest percentage of gingers or red heads, even higher then Scotland and Ireland
They also wear tartans and drink like there's no tomorrow.
Что? Не видео такого ни разу на них
Most Scots actually have brown hair
@@LogBarc No ethnicity on earth has majority red hair, but the top 3 ethnicities with the highest proportion of redheads are Udmurts, Scots and Irishmen.
And they're Asian
Fun fact about Kalmykia, it's also the only Buddhist majority "country" in Europe.
Yes yes....country....yes....
they are mongols
@Adam Black Is Russia unitary? Russia is not a unitary country (federation). In a unitary country, by definition, there can be no autonomous republics. Ukraine has been freed from this shortcoming because it is a unitary country))
@@heinrichvonskalitz819 Crimea is a republic, but it's populated by Russians (about 70%) .Krasnodarsky krai is also mostly Russian. Tatarstan (Republic) has about 40% Russians and about 18% ukrainians. Etc... So many republics prefer to speak Russian although they may have some special natonal traditions and colors.
@@Алексей_Тверской чувак, россия - унитарная страна, как бы официально - да, мы вроде как зовемся федерацией, но весь федерализм был уничтожен путиным в начале 2000ых и при всей моей нелюбви к нему, я считаю, это было правильным решением.
"How diverse is Russia?"
As a russian, I'd say yes
As a russian, I'd say да
As a russian id say cyka blyat
@@ArnavChaudhary-yq6vq haha funny
Not diverse at all
@@purpleelemental3955 why?
The World: "So how many ethnic groups are there?"
Russia: "Yes"
@Русс град 81%
Soviet Union: да
@Русс град как раз это и подсчитано вместе с беларусами и украинцами. Без них русских где-то в районе 76%.
@Русс град нет, я русская. Не понимаю твоего батхёрта насчёт разницы в несколько процентов. К тому же РФ многонациональное и светское государство - это в конституции написано. Если бы наша страна была мононациональной, то она называлась бы примерно как: "Русская/Российская национальная/народная республика". Но мы федерация, как и Германия.
@Русс град русские вымирают и лет через 350 станут если не меньшинством то половиной в своей стране, тюрки и в особенности кавказцы размножаются в геометрической прогрессии. Москву ждёт учесть Константинополя, русских вырежут под корень и Россия станет Кавказстанией
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.
tANNU wHAT??
@@potatoshagalmao
*_TENTH CRUSADE OF MALTA_*
Agreed
Ehem, excuse me, the *Glorious Empire of The Thunder Cross* of Latvia is clearly superior
Stalin wasn't even Russian. He was Georgian. Ironic.
I think you have a problems with understanding marxism and communism, and he made everthing for all peoples of the USSR, making free schol with a many alfabets for no writing ethnic group.
@unknow man Idiot, he's clearly from the Moon
@@SoméDjata Actually, it's Alpha Centauri where Obama is from. Please check your info before making a claim.😁
@@dmitryklevchuk6436 Sorry my bad, all of these filthy xenos look the same so it's easy to get mixed up.
Stalin is no mere human, but the human form of the indestructible stalinium....
Автор, Калининградская область это признанная всеми странами территории Российской Федерации, здесь у тебя ошибка вышла...
где он утверждает обратное?
@@vortix8671на карту посмотри которую зис ис автор представляет
True
Ты о чем? Он ни разу даже не упомянул Калининград
There even used to be a Volga German republic
Unfortunately they were mostly murdered during 2 World War
@@mixererunio1757 yep luckily my ancestors survived
@@drakez3287 Do you live in Russia or Germany?
@@mixererunio1757 Germany
There are still a lot of them living in Siberia
"Why is Liechtenstein not here"
Ah, Liechtenstein, my favorite Russian Republic
Yes during ww2 German soldiers who were pro communist set up camp and stayed and named them selfs the liechinsteins
Liechtenstein is not in Russia
U meen konigsberg? Liechtenctein is a micro country in west europe
@@ButterDog42069 Dude, he was literally joking.
Love to my uralic brothers and sisters- and the rest of Russia- on the other side of the border!
From Finland 🇫🇮❤️🇷🇺
terveisiä mordovialta
🇷🇺❤🇫🇮 Финляндия лучшая страна
Брат, и тебе привет от уральского края!
Привет из иркутска
@@Try512 :)
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.
Much love Turkic friend! (excuse my arabic name lol I'm from Turkey)
Люблю Якутию. Так красива зимой! Как будто попадаешь в сказку. Так ещё и летом жара. Вот оно, настоящее тридевятое царство.
Sakha is absolutely beautiful, much love from Canada
У нас бурят тоже заменили нашу бурят- монгольскую письменность сначала на латиницу, потом на кириллицу с примесью латиницы.
@@alieser7770Why should you be ashamed of your Arabic name?
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.
Barely any Ainu on Kuril island tho
Yeah they all moved to Japan
And to once have owned Alaska, yeah, it almost touches it. There is Chukotka with Chukchis (sp?) so yeah, it streches further than Japan as well, heh.
@@kurniaerfan7307 Unfortunately they are few left in Japan as well. They are struggling to not let their culture and language go extinct.
Yes Japanese insistence on homogeneity in the past forced Ainu to assimilate to avoid discrimination
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.
@Mor Dor Chechnya is on the opposite side of the spectrum: it is the most culturally distinct republic. Most of the Caucasus is distinct, as is Tatarstan.
But then you have areas like Mari El, Udmurtia or Komi, where most of the population speaks Russian as their first language and adheres to Orthodoxy. They are Finno-Ugric which also helps (as even the Slavic Russians are very Finnicised).
As for the religion, you are forgetting about the legacy of the Soviet Union - in many areas the population has been secularised to the point that religious differences are no linger important. Again, this is not true for some regions like Chechnya, but in Buryatia for example religion is a non-issue.
@Александр Дорохов У меня довольно много знакомых из республик. Какие-нибудь коми и мордвины вообще практически неотличимы от русских, с какими-нибудь бурятами все получше, но и они сильно ассимилированы - сами мне объясняли. Есть более консервативные районы, там сохранилась традиционная бурятская культура, буддизм и т.д., а есть более русфицированные, там православие и собственно русских тоже прилично
@Mor Dor Religion really is a non-issue in Tatarstan and Bashkiria. Most muslims there don't take religion very serious, often keep it to themselves and generally don't like to talk about it.
My ex-gf was tatar and her father, a Muslim, was even drinking alcohol and eating pork, which isn't that abnormal there. Going ahead and taking Chechnya as example for all Muslims in Russia is just silly
@Mor Dor Where are you from yourself, mate? Why do you think you know more about Russian than actual Russians?
@Mor Dor Religions does not play as big role in Russia nowadays as it does in many other historically Christian nations. I know an atheist from Christian Orthodox family who married Muslim Tatar woman, and both their families had no problem with it
Смотрю какой-то забугорный гид по своей же стране. Л - логика
скорее тебе интересно, как люди относятся к твоей стране, с учетом на то, что отношения в политическом плане все больше накаляются
Посмотрите на карту на второй секунде - у Беларуси Белосток. Явно использована карта СССР 40 года
Похер на этих американцев, мы все ровно самые крутые
СУДА был
+
И пытаюсь успеть читать субтитры
The Sakha Republic (Yakutia) I'd the largest subdivision of a country in the world, between the sizes of Argentina and India.
*strange siberian noises*
sparse snowy place where populations are very very spread out
Not when you know the World is not a Ball but a FLAT Surface and then the lands beyond the Equator line become much bigger than the lands placed at the North which shrink its fictious size given by our official but deceptive evil Authorities for the sake of money and our perpetual slavery.
@Александр Дорохов тайга
@@raymundowellington6592 you are decieved. The Earth is TRIANGLE shaped. I know the truth. The Flat earth theory is spread out by the ELITES who rule the world! TheY want to hide the TRUTH that tje Earth is a triangle!
7:28 But Stalin himself wasn't Russian. He is even speak Russian with strong accent.
@Александр Дорохов
Thank you mate i'm not russian by the way , And i know this information.
@
Obama great grandparents were Americans Obama is half white
Stalin was born and raised on Georgia with both Georgian parents, Then moved to Russia.
Stalin is working class Obama is upper class
Stalin came to power with Lenin through Revolution
Obama came to power through plutocracy election
Sorry dude but your argument is invalid.
@@samfreelancer2657 Georgia was part of the Russian Empire. And if you did not know in tsarist Russia there were no elections. Communism looks more democratic than monarchy
@@diktatorsovesti5996
What is your point by saying Georgia was part of the Russian Empire ?
@Александр Дорохов said this ukraine, crimea, baltic countries, finnland, or japanese islands. i think they cant believe you.
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
Глупо говорить что доминируют руские в истории правления России . были немцы такие как Екатерина 2 которая вообще до сознательного возраста не жила в России. Как и Сталин человек не "русской" национальности они стремились создать сильное государство.
Тебе стоит учитывать, что малые этнические группы, коих 46 миллионов из 156 миллионов (из которых 110-115 миллионов русские) живут в суровых климатических условиях, где рождаемость невысокая, и как правило эти регионы зависимы от европейской части страны, потому что элементарно себя обеспечить не смогут из-за нехватки населения и нормальных условий для выращивания еды. Да, подавляющее большинство славяне, однако прежде всего - сильное государство, а потом уже всё остальное.
This is not Russia. Russia has occupied many peoples. Do not worry, we will separate from you@@Фибоначчи-я9с
You mentioned Turkmenistan, does this mean we're getting an updated vid about the country and Gurbanguly? You should show the President's songs
Did you just come from John Oliver's video too?
I've seen you in about half the videos I've watched today
this stretch i-
UsualInferno, is this you?
I see you changed your profile picture Avery.
Added in the American flag for identity reasons or just tired of being called a commie everywhere?
3:01 Coolest anthem ive ever heard.
Historické Osobnosti
It sounds like an asian show intro
Are they a turkic group?
@@sodr7440 Yep.Tıva tili:Men Tıva men,Mönge xarlıg dağının oğlu men.
İn Turkish: Ben Tıva ben, sonsuz karlı dağın oğlu ben.
@Parma zyxwvu Its not understandable by hearing, i only could make out a few words and barely understood they are turkic. But in written form the only diffirent word is "Endless" (Sonsuz-Mönge). Needless to say grammar is almost same thinking that they are two diffirent languages
The old tuvan anthem was better it is called Tooruktug Dolgay Tangdym
Perfectly Explained video, especially great job destroying the stereotypes of Russia being all-Slavic country.
(Slavs, Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Chukchis, Yakuts, etc)
Tatar, Bashkir, Chuvash are Turkic
Chukchi,Yakut are Mongolic. They are slav, not Russian nation
@@Би19настайамьдралсайханбайна Yakut is turkic, not mongol
Mongolic not Mongol.
80% of Slavs in country
@Rasmus Vohlakari Propaganda. 80% of Russians are slavs. Accept it.
Every region of Russia has its own anthem!
Открою небольшой секрет, у каждого города, у каждой почти структуры есть свои песни, праздники. Например день пограничника 28 мая, у них классный гимн послушай! У России очень большие границы, поэтому пограничников уважают ( за их не лёгкую службу )
@@zo0m834Это правда. Я был очень удивлён, узнав, что даже у гимназии в городе Рыбница, Приднестровье есть свой гимн.
*angry Sakhalin screaming because of the map in the begining *
Also it is "sevastOpol"
Какие люди
Лол. Сначала у Изи вчера тебя увидел, теперь здесь
@@thayff2401 А шо вас таки не устраивает?
Диб , когда обзор на парня?
@@lazynoob304 он был
"Tannu What?"
Look through HOI4.
Robert MacArthur “””””””””””””””””””””
How dare you
Tannu Tuva
The mighty country that can defeat The Great Luxembourg but not the Greater Empire of Bhutan.
The best Super power in world of HOI4
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.
Pretty accurate
Do you really think most Americans were in all 50 States
@@gamermapper I think he means that the country is so big, that it takes more than a lifetime to see. Since it's almost twice as big as the US.
It's said that the majority of inhabitants of Istanbul never have seen the the mediterranean sea - so what people see is an individual choice.
Not true, Eli from Russia managed to visit the entire country during the Covid Pandemic
I read in an old book Russia has 108 nationalities in it's borders. That is huge for one country.
Greetings from the Southern Urals! Not many at all, in fact more than 250) Strength is in unity. Our culture is strongly mixed with each other, for example, after the Slavic Ivan Kupala, we celebrate the Bashkir Sabantuy together with our Bashkir brothers
More than 185 nationalities live. This is normal, Russians live in the European part, small groups in the Asian part mostly. There's nothing embarrassing about it.
It’s an empire.
It’s old nickname was ‘Prisoner of Nations’.
@@fainitesbarley2245poor jealous guy
Позахватывали сколько могли.
Russian Guy: "Celebrate your cultures!"
Georgian Guy: "All non Russians gtfo"
Finnic Patriot cough America cough
(Lenin was just half-Russian actually but whatever.)
Imre Kovacs Okay Balkan back to the shithole you go
@Finnic Patriot What does it matter that cultural traditions get forgotten for others? As long as it's done without force, that is entirely natural. Even the most ancient traditions likely supplanted or lost other traditions over time. Cry about Russia forcing the issue with intentional Russification via population swaps, not about standard assimilation. All countries do that.
@Finnic Patriot Why??? That's how countries maintain stability. Countries with a myriad of cultures can find loyalty outside the borders; making internal stability a nightmare. Forcing the issue is screwed up, but at least doing it passively is practically what it means to be a decent nation-state. The US in particular is stellar at that passive assimilation, though I suppose that's what you were talking about in being critical about the US for -though to me that is an absolutely great thing that most countries should try to emulate. One people. Different colors. All under one flag with similar language and way of thinking. That's how countries stick together.
The war of the Doomsday will be Tannu Tuva vs Iceland
@@kesorangutan6170 Imagine the logistics.
tAnNu WhAt
I'm from Republic Tuva😂(TANNU WHAT)
@@thepeople9184 Tunna Tavu
@@brobroman425 Tuva*
I find the turkic and uralic groups quite interesting and underdocumented
Yes
@evansdrad The celtic nationalist mongols are turkic tho
@evansdrad The celtic nationalist Mongols and Turkish people as far as my knowledge goes are from the same ancestoral race,before the Turkish people migrated all around the world Turkish people were mostly dominant in Central Asia but after Turkish people migrated Mongols grew in size and power
@evansdrad The celtic nationalist Turkic people consist of Turkish,Mongolian,Kazakh,Krygz,Uighur and loads of others
@@ahmetilberbektas60 mongols are not Turkic, neither in language nor in looks. They have a lot of things in common due to occupying roughly the same area, but it's still very easy to distinguish them.
I'm even pretty sure that you wouldn't be able to tell tatars and other Europeans apart :)
greetings from bashkiria, btw
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
В Красноярске больше русских. Можешь сделать днк-тест. А вообще смешанная внешность очень привлекательная:)
@@tatianab.4307 Нет)
Ооо, это очень классно :3
I'm from India n look like East or South East Asian
Dolgan people from Krasnoyarski Krai, and we, Yakut people from Yakutia speak the same language, and call it "Sakha tyla".
“Crimea not made with one specific ethnic group in mind”
Crimea Tatars: hold my beer
And Crimea Greeks too.
Tatars aren't the majority
@@younghefner8343 That's irrelevant. They are the autochthonous ethnic group.
@@gnjc3480 Altai turkic nomad!)) Back to the Altai nomad!)
@@YouKingofTube Altai is full of russians too.
The Uralic people’s casually chilling in the coldest place on Earth for 7000 years
You forget about Kaliningrad in the first map.
and sakhalin
You mean Königsberg? Yes the map is incorrect it should be part of Ostpreußen.
@@arfn1973 Królewiec actually as it should be part of Prusy Książęce.
@@Alaryk111 It has been part of Prussia more longer.
@@arfn1973 What is Königsberg? there is only Kaliningrad!
Respect to the Turkic people in Russia.
From Turkey🇹🇷
А все остальные идите нахер?!? 😂
У вас что разногласие есть?!
Да!!
Мы не турки
За то будем жить и существовать, сами по себе
Эй турок, что вы и ваше правительство сделали для НАС ?!
Ничего😂
made me realize how russia is even more complicated than the holy roman empire
joshua the Holy Roman Empire wasn’t that complicated they were all german and some Italians back in the early days when it actually included Rome. Russia’s history is complicated but not compared to a country like England, although it’s not as simple as, say, France
@@TheLocalLt well, my perception of what "complicated" was, is affected by my lack of understanding of some concepts, like the idea of "feudalism", so yeah for me HRE is complicated and afaik
joshua how does feudalism make the HRE complicated? It was a german speaking empire dominated by Catholics, but this led to many civil wars during the reformation and left the emperor relatively powerless in the Protestant states by the end. The only real confusing part is that other powers had holdings in the HRE, including paying tribute to the Habsburg Kaiser, but the holdings effectively operated as part of these other powers. Prussia, the only German speaking power besides the HRE, even had its capital in the part of its territory that paid tribute to the Habsburgs. But all the other hundreds of principalities paid tribute to the emperor and going against the emperor would be a cause for war, so the idea that Germany wasn’t united until 1871 is ridiculous. Germany was more united under the habsburgs than it is now! It’s just the level of centralization was low. But today’s Germany doesn’t include Austria, Switzerland, the Low Countries, the Balkans (not de jure HRE territory but ruled by the HRE), Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein. The HRE was very powerful until the 1500s, but was plagued by constant civil wars after that.
The war between the subjects of the federation is very rare in contrast to the Holy Roman Empire, so everything is much easier)
For the 900 years of its medieval history, Russia was a complicated "game of thrones".
And the SU was even more complicated than modern Russia
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.
Dear guest, visit Dagestan someday! It is the most multinational region in Russia, located between the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea. There are UNESCO architectural sites (the town of Derbent), high-altitude old auls (settlements; as Khunzakh, Tarki, Akusha, Gunib, Kubachi, Gamsutle, Gotsatl, Akhti, Salta, Sogratle and others), the national culture of different peoples, various dishes, Caucasian dances (I can show examples on TH-cam), the beautiful Sulak canyon, the sand dune of Sary-Kum, the picturesque Khunzakh waterfall (Tobot). And the most important wealth of Dagestan is its people. They are very hospitable (this is the national custom of the Caucasian highlanders and eastern peoples), responsive, cheerful, friendly (Derbent in 2006 received the UNESCO prize as the most tolerant town in the world) and are carriers of ancient history and distinctive culture.
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@@sovzy71 красиво написал брат!)
Those ethnic minorities are very small in numbers due oppression from Russia for thousands of years.....Where did you get such a slow brain from ??
Я люблю свою родину и россию, жаль ей управляют такие люди как путин
I bet Hearts of Iron IV created the Tannu Tuva meme.
Graham Turner yea
Russia is a multinational country, and we are proud of it!
That's why ruzzian federation sends buryats, chechens, tatars etc to war with Ukraine💩💩 While it would be better if they fought against the real enemy - russia
The Nazi is awake. Buryats, Chechens, Tatars are Russia. In our beautiful rich language, there are two designations of nationality and belonging to the state. The word - Rossiya is the second designation. But since it is not in English, I say "Russia". This is our strength. In our great country, every people has the right to communicate in their native language, while in your "European", "Western", "liberal" Ukraine laws are introduced that prohibit the teaching of national minorities of their native languages. It's not just Russians. These are Romanians, Hungarians, Poles. Maybe that's why the Buryats, Chechens and Tatars are fighting for Rossiya, because they don't want Bandera's fans to come to them. I think I answered your stupid saying exhaustively. Ukraine is their enemy, not Rossiya.
@@ИльяЛисицин-ш6н do you live in a national republic? And if you do, do you know the local state language? The answer is 99% no. Why yakuts know russian while russians don't even try to learn the basics of Yakut language? And what's the point for them to fight for a country that is thousands kilometers far away and did nothing bad for them? While Russia cancels their culture, their native language and purses their national leaders
@@theearth4529 Well, if you think about it, yes, it's a little wrong, but in multinational countries where one nation rules, it's normal.
Why do people who live in California not always know Spanish?
А сами расисты
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).
what kind of site?
@@СергійМаланчук-в2ф website
@@grahalt7862 Can you drop the link?
@@grahalt7862 please
@@СергійМаланчук-в2ф вiн ще не на хостi)
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
Motherland what is it?
@@АлександрДьяков-к4н Motherland-> Mother Russia
@@ЮрийМеньшиков-г7и а такое слово вообще есть? матечество????
@@auauvirus по моему это применяется только в отношении России,это так?
@@auauvirus вот я и говорю что это калька с родины матери, но мои иностранные знакомые часто спрашивают как именно по русски звучит слово motherland. они уверены что это прямой перевод. и притом они не американцы от которых этого ожидаешь,а немцы, финны и датчане
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.
No, it's Papua New Guinea.
@@jovojosic680 that's diversity in terms of language, but they can still be ethnically identical
Тоже самое что и американцы.
theirs couple Africans countries with more ethnic diversity than russia
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! ))
Русские настолько суровы что учат географию своей страны по видео иностранцев
1:09 As a life of Boris fan I approve this. 👍
Estonian
Cheeki Breeki
@@kirillassasin But he can be a russian from Estonia.
Да
Anatoli.. This is VODKA!
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. ;)
it would be nice to explain other regions, not only republics
or at least federal districts, they are big
Question:Why don't all jews live on the chinese border?
Because they would die from the MSG in the Chinese food
diverse asmr XD
Because they are the only ones capable of SELLING something to the chinese instead of just buying. Getting the export issue solved.
@Jeb Bush God bless America Jeb, not your god Bernie Sanders.
Jews live dispersed because that way they can't get exterminated at one go. It is a self preservation thing. Plus they do live even in China since even Columbus was born and Europe knew what a soap is. Them and the Chinese are the only link we have with the ancient times.
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.
Есть граждане России и народы проживающие здесь, никаких россиян не существует.
@@ПапашаБесчленофф Так, гражданин России - это Россиянин. Что не так?
@@ПапашаБесчленофф граждане России и есть россияне
@@ПапашаБесчленофф есть русские, а есть россияне
0:23 Where is my Kaliningrad???
@Александр Дорохов no shit :>
its ont he map..little thing on corner at belarus
@@sebs.3917 it's not shown.
Польша украла
*Königsberg
And I want to add this thing azeris live in Iran not in Azerbaijan.Azerbaijan is a Turk nation not Azeri.Stalin added this "Azeri" word due sepereting Azerbaijan and Turkey.And we always say "one nation two states" each other.
So you consider yourself a Turk?
@@dusanpavlovic5529 Yes surely
@@dusanpavlovic5529 yeah of course
Allah bless you :)
It is interesting.
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)
No
@Efe Atlı cultural assimilation does not assimilate genetic. Just ask american. They all speak the Indo-European branch of language.
@Рамис Карама My Great-Grandma also comes from Crimea. She's a Tatar. Huge love from Turkey.
@Efe Atlı tatars and chuvashs are mixed with finno - ugric, not with russians you stupid roach fuck
@@ugurerken8806 he is not crimean tatar, he has nothing common with you, roach
Love from Dagestan ❤ (No, really, I'm from Dagestan, I'm Lezgin)
Lezgin language and Russian language are so different lol
And Dagestan is situated on the Northern Caucasus,
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
Let's Travel They speak German in Austria... Your comment makes no sense. lol
@Let's Travel until the big oopsie with Hitler, most austirans thought of themselves as germans
He didn't make everything Russian that's simply not true. Modern historians can pretty much make up whatever they want about Stalin and people will believe it.
@@MrHeythere555 Exactly! People love making shit up about him
JoséTheGMan 52 1 thing I will say is Stalin did not like the Caucasian republics so he decided to deport most of the population especially people of ingushetia and Chechenya
The "Why is Liechtenstein not here?"-Comment killed me :D
Nice video! A video on the cultures in India would be interesting!
Yeah, no. That's a flame war/bloodbath just waiting to happen....
Any video mentioning India has burning comment sections
More focus on the 7 states as indians are gonna watch the video anyway and we know less about them
Good job! 👏 thank you 🙏 from Russia (Buryatiya Republic)
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.
You can also fit 3 United States, all of Jupiter, 20% of the Sun, 1 Australia, the non-existent state of Israel and still have some space left
@@olzhas1one755
Fun fact:Russia is bigger than,China,than Pacific ocean and RUSSIA IS FAST AS BIG AS VATICAN!
@@dowmont6209 Russia is also bigger than Russia
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.
i am mishar tatarian and my little homeland is Nizhegorodskaya oblast, in Russian it is over 190 nationalities and subethnos. I love Russia and don't like reddit's "sofa-separatism".
Only White Russians are Russian ypu have no say ypur just a slave in Putins and Stalibs mind
@@MitsukiHashiba
Что ты несёшь?
@@MitsukiHashibaА ты чем раб, дружище? Или ты считаешь себя самым свободным по причине того, что тебе так говорит твое государство?)
"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
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.
Ещё в Татарстане изобрели трёх кодовые компьютеры они работали быстрее и дешевле были но их решили не выпускать в массовое производство потомучто у всех были двоичные
Caucasus countries and territories: We have so much linguistic diversity in our mountainous lands!
New Guinea: Hold my beer.
На одном лишь Кавказе проживет более 60 коренных этносов, зачем сравнивать великих горцев и папуасов?
I feel like we need more people in here for the trolls
Make a video specifically about the Uralic people and how they got to such different places as Finland and Hungary
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.
Russia and the United States are similar only in a device under the type of a federal state, otherwise they are diametrically different states, the United States is a state that destroyed the Indian population by genocide, while Russia, on the contrary, multiplied and educated, equalizing rights, the non-Russian population of Russia.
The United States is a state that has built its well-being on the slave labor of millions of black Africans, and Russia has built its future on equality and justice between all the peoples inhabiting Russia!
In the United States, branches of the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazis are quietly working, but in Russia you will not see this!
Like between any countries
@@SoIDubTheeUnforgiven The most relevant similarity is that both countries are considered very diverse, but simultaneously have a hegemonic culture which dominates them. They are both continent-spanning countries created through expansionism and subjugation of people already living on that land.
Him: Mentions life of Boris
Me:Ah I see you’re a man of culture as well!
I really liked it dude, I never thought that Russia had so many republics inside
This is why I love Russia so much. There's such a great diversity of cultures, peoples, landscapes, religions, etc... So many countries in only one. But, will this hold on or will Russia one day explose like the USSR did with all those republics becoming independant. Future will tell us.
Do you mind if I write further in Russian? It just became possible to translate comments. And by the way, I immediately warn you that the translation may be incorrect, which is why the meaning of the words changes in my head.
К большому сожалению, да и этот процесс неизбежен из-за очень много этнических групп, хотя в том же СССР пытались установить Интернационализм. Распад бывает обычно, когда у народов самосознание просыпается, что произошло у украинцев, белорусов, балтии, казахов и так далее в Советском Союзе. Также в Югославии у Хорватов, боснийцев и другие тоже проснулись самосознание и они проявили резкий национализм в отличии от СССР. и Скоро тоже самое ждёт и РФ рано или поздно, башкиры и татары буквально орут чтобы их страны показывали на карте мира отдельно от России. У Чечни была попытка, но потом произошло сами знаете чего. Любая страна потерпит крах. У Украины тоже такая судьба, но это уже из-за разных взглядов население
@@SlavaZukin в СССР ничего подобного не было до начала перестройки. Людям по большей части все равно на национальные и расовые признаки, их настраивают против других людей политики и власть, которым это выгодно
Половину из республик в нутри России, у них нет границ с другими государствами. Так что даже если республики выйдут из состава РФ, то они будут зависить от России. Так как нет выхода к морям, и странам.
@@alexmiller23 Ну это уже анклав будет. Нет ничего страшного, если государства будут закрыты Россией. Швейцария тоже своего рода анклав (в плане стран ЕС) И ничего, существует себе как Швейцария :)
@@SlavaZukin стран ЕС, и чего, ну Швейцария не в ЕС, один фиг подлизывает им. По сути у Швейцарии нет своего мнения. Ты хоть знаешь как политика устроена?
Educational video for all people.
I live in Udmurtia and did not even know about some regions.
thanks)
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)
I find Siberian culture interesting
Wtf is Tannu Tuva? Is it some in joke on this channel? Cause i never watched this channel before
Я также об этом подумал
Thanks mate! You clear many doubts about this complex country. Greetings from Chile! 🇨🇱
2:03
Some Ukrainians hate to admit that their country's name comes from the word kray: edge or outskirts. They find it offensive. Some Russians find it offensive to admit that the word Rus was brought by the Vikings. Then I should be offended by the word Tatar which could stand for "enemy" in the olden days or "someone from the Tartar" (the abyss from the Greek mythology).
Now that you translated kray as frontier, which has never come to my mind, Ukranians should be proud of this etymology: frontier dwellers - what could be more honourable?
It is vile for them that their nation as such did not exist until the 1890s, then, on the orders of Germany, a local professor singled out the population of the south-west of the country by linguistic deviation into a new " nation ". Later, the idea of a nation for them was advanced in the years of Lenin, and in general it is as if people from the region of Lapland in Finland I would call myself a different nation because we speak differently in beer halls than people in Helsinki pubs.
So why did Kiev exist as a capital trade centre nearly a thousand years before moscow became a city? Kievan Rus is not a frontier, mera, meshera, myroma, mordva & moksha are not slavonic of the mokshan swamps of zalesia, moscow spoken 300 years ago is language of Kievan rus (ukranian), modern russian was formalised with ussr, there is no empire, no ussr & a federation of republics of no power, only central power of the kremlin mafia, if you learn the language you'll understand more of the real history & not lies, Русь i Kii не мокша, Уkраiна есть, была i будет, я Руськii но я Уkpaiнец, не мокша радяньского мира лъжи, смерти и Zла раZZбитого корыто 😉
@@viktormogilin307 украинцам на протяжении долгого времени промывали головы переписанной историей, готовя к войне с Россией. Ещё до аннексии Крыма вам прививали ненависть к русским. Теперь терпите вытекающие из этого последствия, убогие 😉
@@viktormogilin307 И фамилия у тебя соответствующая, как бы говоря о судьбе выдуманного украинского народа 🤭
Ukraina comes from Okraina, Okraina means edge of country, basically edge of Russia. Ukrainian as nationality formed lately in 20th century. Sorry that's just how is is.
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.
Khanubis: Russia has 46-
My eye: *sees 47 instantly*
Me: LIAR!
#23AndMe *wants to know your location*
I am from Tatarstan!!!
Thank you! No one talks about us!
Рехмәт🤗
World: How many ethic groups who want independence do you want?
Russia: *yes*
Normie
@@Cjnw gonna put a uno reverse card right there
Cringe
я хочу
Simply not true, they don't want independence, they're heavily assimilated
The Sevastopol being a city of importance reveal was nuts tbh
Actually it's occupied territories
@@volodymyrpatutin1036 cry about it
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!
"When the soviet union collapsed in 1991 15 new countries were created"
Actually no. Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania were existing prior soviet union.
So did the Caucasian republics immediately after WWI, albeit briefly. The Central Asian republics are the only brand new inventions of the collapse of the USSR.
Well, if we go by that logic, Uzbekistan existed also as the Khanate of Khiva and Emirate of Bukhara, and Azerbaijan existed also, since the Safavid dynasty of Iran was Azeri, so technically, only 2 new countries got made. Turkmenistan which was ruled by the Uzbeks and Iranians before, and Kyrgizstan which was owned by the Uzbeks and Chinese.
How could I forget Ukraine and Belarus though. They first appeared as separate political entities after the Russian revolution, and had only developed a separate identity several decades earlier.
@@sowhat249 Both, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine existed (admittedly briefly) as units independent of the Russian authority towards the end of WWI and shortly afterwards. Western Belarus and Ukraine ended up part of Poland, the rest of them went to the Soviets, whereas Moldova (well, Bessarabia back then) was fully annexed by Romania.
And I don't know why you even bring up Azerbaijan, I mentioned it as part of the Caucasian republics.
@@sowhat249 Well I didn't forget, I wasn't mentioning them cuz I wasn't sure and I hoped that guys like you would fill in the missing picture
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.
That Tuvan anthem was glorious
Turks are the fourth largest nation in the world, there are more than 300 + m Turks in the world. People think that Turks have only one country, but there are six independent Turkic states and There are a lot of autonomous Turkic Republics in Russia. In addition, Turks coming from Central Asia not Anatolia
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Блин, так мило с иностранцев в комментариях, люблю вас ❤
the only regions of Russia with a strong separatist movements are in Caucasus. The regions like Tatarstan, Bashkortostan or Buryatia don't have so much support from the native population (try to tell me about tatar separatism when they just easily accepts the fact that their native language is being cut off from the school program)
There were separatism movements right after the break-up of the USSR. They have since died down
Lol in all Russia we have native language in schools even my oblast have this, but we just learning Russian on this lessons
RwEpNcA 2004 - so it’s a lie then? It’s not native languages being taught.
@@Samchocolate11 that's because I live in Novokuznetsk, in Tatarstan they learn Tatar language
RwEpNcA 2004 - I hope they do learn the Tatar language in Tatarstan. Why don’t more slavic Russians learn minority languages of the russian federation?
I would if I was a slavic Russia living in Russia bc I think they’re fascinating.
85 federal subjects of russia
22 republics
46 oblasts (provinces)
4 okrugs (districts)
9 krais (regions)
3 autonomous cities and,
the jewish autonomous oblast
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.
Russia forever United never be divided by western imperialism
My from Russia(Rebublic Bashkortostan).hаумы дуслар Америкалар,Великобританиялар. Bashkortostan beautiful!!!!!!!
That sound effect was great. One second in, and I am cackling. Great work.
Russia does not completely consist of the Russian population in Russia live other peoples I From Tuva and I am Budist
i want to learn more about russia and its cultures (especially because i am an american who is supposed to hate them for some reason). i have some language learning software that i have yet to get into so for now, only knowing english, i am looking for books/resources in english.
to get a little more specific, i would love information from a russian perspective on the cold war and history that can be considered "modern" (which is kind of a nonsense term given how things evolve partitioning into eras is tough - so i guess im asking for something thats somewhere like 1600s-revolution)
anyways, thanks for anything and if it helps i heard about you from jades 4 color map video
philip rea Russia is hated bc of the Jews in America
To see the Cold War from a different perspective, I suggest you to learn Russian and just literally type in "cold war documentary movie" in Russian into the TH-cam search bar. You should get a result immediately. Be aware that some of these documentaries may be biased, as a good chunk of Russians like to demonize the USSR too
in my comment, the line "especially because i am an american who is supposed to hate them for some reason" was intended as sarcasm to highlight the absurdity of the propaganda that has been continuously pumped into our (american) society from every direction for generations.
in other words, i am not asking for the answer as to why russia/us relations are the way they are. im happy to discuss it, its just not what was intended.
@@olzhas1one755 everything is biased, its impossible to operate in any other way. see howard zinn and the idea of "staying neutral on a moving train". anyways, learning the language right now is too high a barrier, any other suggestions?
ussr and communism is piece of shit
usa too but little better
HoI4 players: _exists_
also HoI4 players: _weird Tanu Tuva noises_
This was very informative. Thank you. There is one big BUT... While Russia calls itself a federal state, roughly 20 years ago it changed the system ending direct elections of the governors of the republics who would then be chosen by the Kremlin. So unlike genuine federal states, like in the United States where people in each state vote for their own governors and in Canada the people of each province vote for their Premier and they have independent governors an independent government in these internal states, Russia ended that and all the local governments are appointed by the Kremlin. One of the real benefits of having federal states is this genuine autonomy and even sometimes tug of war between the regional State and the federal government. While it does cause tension it does also give people in the regional state a certain autonomy that they can all feel that they are in a democratic system that gives them a voice. This is one of the great benefits of having a federal state eliminated this. So calling Russia a genuine federal state is not accurate because regional governments are appointed by the kremlin. If Russia does collapse at some point it will be in large part because of the decision to take away this power from the individual republics and oblasts etc, taking away even the sense of authority of the people in these individual republics.
Stalin was weird. He pushed Russian... but he wasn't Russian, he was Katvelian from Georgia.
Not just that. Georgians hates Stalin but Russians loved Stalin. See Transnistria for example.
@KazanKhan Back in those times every autocratic leaders were.
@@AetherTheGenshin Not true. The majority of georgians love Stalin, even those who hate Russia
@@nimkati5627 Really? So why Georgia break up from USSR?
@@AetherTheGenshin Because the project failed. Stalin didn't rule when the Soviet Union collapsed.
It's not my assumption that Georgians love Stalin. The polls show this.
0:11 You left out KALININGRAD!
*Königsberg
And Poland as well.
@@trublu2251 +++
@@trublu2251 KALININGRAD!
Victoria Konstantinova KOROLEVEČ.
Punch a germans, punch a commies.
😬😬😬 It's a controversial statement about Crimea. Crimea has few native and mostly turkic peoples. It's just Russian government doesn't want to give a lot of attention to it because of the strategic importance of the region. Native Crimean ethnicities have vibrant cultures and rich histories. I would be happy to see a video on that topic on this channel!
Привет из Башкортостана!)
Салам из КЧР )
0:01 and nothing can go wrong 0:02 OH NO IT ALL WENT WRONG
Author, also there are 4 autonomic districts (okrugs) in Russia: Nenetskiy AO, Yamalo-Nenetskiy AO, Chukotskiy AO, Khanti-Mansiyskiy AO. Before Putin there were 7 or 9 AO.
Однако здравствуйте)))
Живу в Сибири, на английском писать не хочу, я вредная
Ti ohuela?
@@slippygames3519, razve chto chut'-chut' :)
@@siberianvesper7035 kek
What ?
@@eduardovillicana8509, налей себе компот :)
3:01 that Tuvan anthem sounds epically heroic!