It's hard, because in English you just call all the people of Russia Russians, but in Russia we have 2 different words, Russian in english is not the same as Russian in russian language. Russians are a mono-ethnic slavic group. And here we have the word Rossiyane, which mean all the nations and citizens of Russia.
@@fapflix Well, technically, the Russians were the Varangians who arrived in Russia, the Slavic tribes took the name Russian, because your first kings were Varangians with a Russian surname and as the other tribes that joined Russia grew, they also began to be called Russians.
10:00 I'm from Far East of Russia, and i first time hear about "Identify more regionally". Independence? Are you joking? No one is talking about it in Primorsky Krai for example... Everyone here is Russian, speak Russian and identify as Russian...
The Russians are great people.. I was treated like a king in Moscow, and a little town we stayed at.. The food was so good, and the men are men, women are beautiful.. Cheers..
@@kstreet7438 I say, the reference is (likely) to the subculture of the Gopniki. And it might be offensive. Investigate the motto "Three stripes for life," and you'll find Adidas gear along with plenty of memes. Apologies if I've been pedantic. Cheers.
Frankly speaking, they didn't control it very harshly, especially Chukotka) They only built some fortresses and collected taxes. No forceful christianisation, no enslaving of local peoples (ethnical Russians were the only slaves in the country), no marginalization of language and culture. Many Russians tried to escape slavery, they ran away from landlords and hid near local peoples. Many fled there because of religious persecution - they didn't accept Church reform in XVII century. All of them were a minority, they didn't want to quarrel. Yes, there are other reasons as Mongol rule in the region (some infrastructure remained). Also, Russians helped Siberian leaders to fight against Manchurs and Chinese. Apart from that, local elites were respected, and Cossack leaders married local leaders' daughters. I think respect for culture made us very different from invaders from other territories. BTW from first schools until today indigenous children all over the country study their language and culture at school, especially if it's boarding schools for children of nomadic peoples. Swinging lasso is mandatory at P E lessons:) children should know how to help with the herd.
@@svetlanakaravaeva7636 Your comment is extremely ignorant towards Russian state, during the conquest of chukotka many natives died and Russians continued into America's Alaska, you claim Russians were enslaved in your confused mind of todays thinking as a result of the serf system Russians ethnicity managed to expand to become one of the largest in the world and created huge living space to the east and south which it can inhabit while the free chukchas still number nine thousand haha, the government simply had more controlled over Russian nation and so it progressed just like todays Chinese government has done with its population its not slavery, hope this comment will make you see history the in a different way and stope you from writing bad stories about Russias history.
@@l5475 My opinion will remain the same: they didn't control Siberia well, especially Chukotka. This is one of the reasons why indigenous peoples preserved their culture. Russian government failed to negotiate in Alaska, otherwise life there would be much better for indigenous peoples. And, yes, indigenous children study their language, culture and traditional way of life at school. I travel around the country and hear people speak their languages everywhere. If you've never lived in Russia, it's not easy to understand our life here. The government doesn't control the country harshly, and it's very good for everybody.
@@svetlanakaravaeva7636 your comment proves what I said yes the Russians were very kind in some circumstances to the conquerd people which is why you hear the language but the idea of russians as enslaved is wrong as for chukotka today Russians are majority and the land belongs to Russia.
Thanks for the video, I'm a Russian citizen, but not completely Russian from the ethnic point of view. Some people think that such a huge territory consists only of Slavic tribes... And they get shocked when they find out there's a big diversity of peoples
ethnic russians are of Slavic(eastern slavs), Scandinavian(Rus' people) and Finno-Baltic origin. All these ethnic groups (even though the Slavs are a cultural-linguistic group, we take them here) form a single Russian ethnos and that is why Russian Tsars had the title "Tsar of All Russians". This title literally means that this Tsar rules over the whole spectrum of indigenous ethnic groups of the Russian principalities: Slavs, nords, finns and balts. As Churchill said: "Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"
"Ethnic Russians" are NOT of Slavic descent. They are either Finno-Ugric (Merya, Mordva, etc) or Turkic (Tatars). Their language was created by Balkan missionaries and hence is a dialect of Bulgarian, not similar to Ukrainian.
@@CrazyLeiFeng not entirely true, Slavic tribes did have a big presence in Western part of what is now Russia and mixed with Finno-ugric people, but Turkic heritage is common only in more Eastern areas, like lower Volga, Urals and West Siberia. In the westernmost Russians it is very uncommon
With respect, the Russian Empire's conquest of Siberia was in no way comparable to the bloodshed of the Western Europeans' conquest of North America. Firstly, these areas were far less densely populated owing to their northerly, remote nature. Secondly, the state's conscious policy was mostly of coexistence with and taxation of local tribes, and less often, assimilation. In fact, according to respected Siberia scholar N.I. Nikitin, it was often the case that settlers' complaints about conflicts with locals over fishing resources, hunting rights, etc. went unanswered by the central government, which wanted to make the profits off Siberia's riches, but didn't want to spend money on garrisons and policing (Nikitin, 'The Absorption of Siberia in the XVII Century', 1990). This meant settlers either had to fight locals themselves, or learn to get along. Also, for one reason or another, the Russians never seemed to share the ideas of racial supremacy over conquered peoples as other European powers had. Altogether, this has helped to save so many distinct ethnic groups within the Russian Empire (up to 185 different ethnic groups), and, in the 19th and 20th centuries, led to many people from these minorities taking up prominent positions in government, the military, culture, and other areas. P.S. I am half ethnic Russian, half Turkic Chuvash myself.
One thing to consider - Russia is full of Uralic and Turkic natives to this day, while barely any natives are present in America, even more so in the north.
In contrast to all other countries, Russia managed to save different 200 peoples ! I don't think 200 tribes of natives remained in any american country. So USA trolls and other imbeciles --> STFU you know nothing about my fatherland Russia and my motherland Germany. Слава Русьи и Германий !
@@alekshukhevych2644 maybe, but north russian Govorja very big part in Russian language because our language mixed north and south Govorja russian language+church Slavonic.
@@pickle6599 It is not a big part of the Russian language, some Novgorod dialects have indeed contributed to the Russian language but not nearly as much. Moscowite Slavic simply took over, mostly due to the genocide and deportation of Novgorodians.
Such a beautiful and diverse nation. I was always fascinated with Russia, growing up during the cold war I was always suspicious of being told that it was a 'bad' country so I read as much as I could about it. I love the literature that comes from Russia, the food the wildlife and of course the ballet lol my first vinyl record my parents ever bought for me was Peter and the wolf and it was the soundtrack of my childhood. 💕💕 RUSSIA 💕💕
In Russia you're classified as an ethnic Russian (those who speak the East Slavic language related to Belarussian and Ukrainian) or you are classified as a Russian citizen (even if you are one of those ethnic groups who belong to the Paleo-Siberian language).
English does not have special word for Russian by citizenship, but in russia we say Russian - means ethnicity and Rossianin - means you can be any ethnicity but it is mens Russian- citizen.
Mason, your videos are highly educational and informative, this channel has honestly been a god send in terms of advancing my knowledge on haplogroups, cultures, countries and anthropology in general. A massive thanks from myself and keep doing what you're doing
Caucasians like Chechens and Dagestanis or Circassians have no resemblance with middle easterns not culturally nor phenotypically they only share the religion, still to this day Circassians live between Arabs and they're totally different and distinguishable.
Honestly not so much history, Slavs were almost unknown before 500 AD. Slavs had no idea of statehood untill 9th century when slavic tribes were conquered by the Vikings.
@@JameBlack Kievan Rus was founded in 9 century, first Rurikovich dynast beginning with Svyatoslav and Vladimir already were Slavicied, how does Russian history only begins in 14 century?
Russians like other Slavs originated from Indo-European Yammna culture/Kurgan culture. Their gene is the haplogroup R1A that's spread throughout Eurasia as far as west china and Mongolia thanks to the Iranic speaking Scythians and other indo-Europeans related to them such as Sarmations in antiquity. The core of these eastern Indo-Europeans was the Eurasian steppe which is still dominated by people carrying R1A gene...the Russians.
@@Vitalis94 Russian history as a history of modern Russian Federation. Core land of modern russians were almost uninhabited in 9th century, the history of preMongolian eastern slavs is mostly a history of the territories of modern Ukraine
I got a(n) DNA test done, and found out that I 58% of my DNA was/is from Eastern Europe and Russia. Which wasn’t too much of a surprise for me as I had known I was adopted from Irkutsk Russia my whole life, as my family had decided to not lie to me about that. But it still make me very curious about my own heritage as I know nothing of who my biological parents were.
It's so cool to see a thriving youtube channel (over 350K subs) talking about ethnicity in sensitive 2020. Just being able to talk neutrally or even passionately about these kind of things without backlash. Keep it up. (I know Masaman probably won't read this personally but the message remains.)
@@AkwaIbomDoll Exactly, and agreed, but the OP said "in *sensitive* 2020", meaning that these last few years, even historically accepted information and facts can still (and does) become interpreted and judged as racist...even neutrally and factually yet delicately discussing such interesting topics as race, ethnicity, cultures and their origins (as Masaman excellently does) while *neither being a racist* can possibly peg or "flag" a person as still being racist by some in our "enlightened" 2020s. So the OP is correct, as well as you.
I’d love to see a video on Sakhalin. The tour books say some towns in the south are 10% Korean because of Japanese rule 1905-1945. Then there’s the Ainu, Orok and Nivkh peoples. Chekhov wrote about it when it was a gigantic Alcatraz.
@@АсяЯсень-х8й Не думаю что они их считают протояпонцами - просто местное население которое там было еще до японцев. Так же как мы не считаем нивхов просто русскими только потому что они были на Сахалине еще до появления Русских.
Russia, Far Eastern Federal District, Sakhalin Island, Korsakov small town(Population: 33,259 - Ethnic Russians 86.46%, Koreans 5.27%; Ukrainians 2.56%; Tatars 1.03%), High School N 1. Waltz graduation *1iphqgx9OuE* Final song "Childhood" *Ics9iFFer9c*
I remember "march of the tin soldiers", which played in Tom and Jerry. It was performed by Tchaikovsky. But Waltz no. 2 (Shostakovich) is above all praise. th-cam.com/video/mmCnQDUSO4I/w-d-xo.html
I am russians all off my ancestors are from Northen Russia (Pomor as you say in video) may be that in genetic relation we are more Uralic people but in fact there are so much blue - eyed and white haired people than anywhere in Russia and I get asked all the time did i have some German or Scandinavian ancestor
@kimi Got any sources on that? Obviously, Balts were present in Russia, hell, Moscow area before it's conquest by the Rus, was inhabited by Baltic Eastern Galindians.
@@Vitalis94 That''s true, they also have one of the highest percentages of blondes in the world. Yet the Finns started to mix with the Scandinavians long time ago, thousands of years ago. And where this started, how far east this area reached? And are all the blondes and blue-eyed people in the Pomor region descendants of later migration, or where they there, when the Finno-Ugric people came. Aslo, are they older than the Scandinavians too, at least the language? The Scandinavians have a mostly a bit different genetic origin than most Europeans. But because tehir language is Indo-European, it's possible that they adapted that later, and their older language vanished. But if that was the case, it resulted then in the Germanic language Group. So in this theory, the older language would have influenced in what makes Germanic languages different from the the other Indo-Europeans of Europe, like Celtic, Slavic, Romance etc. Celtic languages also show some influence of non-Indo-European languages, maybe Basque-type languages, because the genetics show that the British Islanders (Celtic or English) are still mostly related to Basques genetically, who speak a non-Indo-European language. Also the romance languages and Greek show signs of influence from a substratum language, one that was there before they came into the land. All this means, that who knows what was the culture of the blue-eyed and blonde people of the north originally, maube mneither Scandinavian nor Uralic, they likely migrated from the Bakans, there are genetic relatives there. These people were in europe before those who brought the Indo-European languages. This relates to Pomors in that their langauge and culture can have changed many times, like it has changed from the Uralic to Russian. But I've heard there are some fish names and other nature names int heir dialects that are Uralic. And place names are many, especially around the Karelian area, where the change to Russian language is even a younger incidence. But also further south, like around Novgorod there are Uralic names. Even Moscow was established amidst Uralic people, like Merya, Muroma, and was it Meshchina people. Alsothe Volga name sounds like it might came from Uralic languages: Finnish has Valkea, Valko- 'white', Estonian have Valge, Livonians Vaalga - meaning the same. That sound with k in Finnish, and g in estonian & Livonian is not quite g, nor is it as strong as in English, so the English migh here it as g, and the Russians. Even recently Russians have turned Finnish k, p & t to g, b & d in Finnish family names that have been decades or centuries with names of Finnish (or closely related language) origin. This doesn't prove anything of course, but just says it's possible. And the city of Samara could be Uralic by it's structure, but also Turkic or Russian etc. But it's the southernmost area where Uralic people have long existed, in Samara region it's the Mordvinians (Mordva people). When there's also the Mari people north or Volga, it sounds like all those Merya, Muroma, Mari & Mordva nations (maybe sa-mara too) come from a common culture where the name was Mar, Mer, Mor… something.
Russia is not country, but it's empire. Many empires were existing on Eurasian continent. Empire consists of many different nations many times even not related to each other.
Quite interesting, I think Russia is one of the most fascinating ethnic topics. This video DEFINITELY demands a part 2 at the very least. It raises much more questions than it answers.
I am tri racial, my grandmother comes from an Indian temple built by a Shiva avatar in Thailand, originally known as Vimana Pura(Sanskrit), modern day Phi Mai, Thailand. Also I'm Irish, black Irish and Sicilian. This is what led me to watch your videos and learn my roots. Keep up the good work, Masaman. You're doing Gods work and telling his story, thank you for inspiring me to learn about my ancestry and history. You have always been my favorite TH-cam channel.
The extensive analysis of the Russian pool of paternal lines presented here establishes the following general features: (1) the insignificance of the eastern gene flow, emphasized by the absence of typical haplogroups of Eastern and Central Asia; (2) well-pronounced gradients from north to south of specific haplogroups in the historical Russian region; (3) the division of its general diversity into northern and central-southern populations; (4) the proximity of the northern populations to the north-eastern and eastern non-Slavic populations, which implies extensive assimilation or even a direct change in the language; Russian Russians (5) lower Y-chromosomal variations throughout central-southern historical Russia compared to high variations among northern Russians; (6) proximity, the achievement of a virtual coincidence in the MDS plot, in the Y-chromosomal variation between central-southern Russians with Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles; and (7) this significant intra-ethnic differentiation of the North Russian population is the only exception to the rule found; in the broader European context, interethnic (mainly linguistic) differences strongly prevail. Russian Russians ' Y-chromosome pool in their historical settlement zone is mainly a composite composite of their Proto-Slavic heritage and, in particular, in the Russian North, an extensive admixture with Finno-Ugric speakers. This bipartite scenario of the main sources of origin of modern ethnic Russians is supported by the analysis of classical markers presented here and can be used as a working hypothesis for a better understanding of the genetic diversity and demographic history of Eurasian populations. Its patrilineal aspect can be further refined by a detailed study of STR variations in phylogenetic biliallelic haplogroups, although new informative SNPs should be identified for deeper progress, in particular, given that only a small part of the Y chromosome has been studied so far for markers potentially informative for phylogeographic research3. www.cell.com/fulltext/S0002-9297%2807%2900025-0
@@alekshukhevych2644 people don’t get that DNA is older then ethnic groups, nothern Euroean dna simply shows as Scandinavians, despite it can be more annicet. High % of fair hair and light eyes among Russians probably do include some Scandinavian going on. Afrer all Vikings founded Russia.
@@Ciderchai There was no RuSSia until 1721 when a Tsar decided to rebrand Muscovy to justify military occupation of Rus (Ukraine and Belarus). You can check old maps issued both inside and outside Muscovy if you don't believe. There was no such nation as RuSSians until Bolsheviks. From 1721 until 1920s they were branded as Velikorosy, before 1721 they called themselves Muscovites, before the Horde those tribes were called Merya, Moksha, Mari, Tatars, etc. They had nothing to do with Medieval Rus'. On the contrary - they were the most loyal and brutal tribute collectors for the Golden Horde.
Artoria Pendragon Kievan Rus is a made up historical term coined by Russian historians in the 18th century. It simply means “Ancient Russian State with the capital in Kiev” And Kievan Rus is the early history of modern Russia. But imbecile trolls like you might say otherwise ;)
@@ДорианГрей-ъ4ш did you actually learn history man? Novgorod and Kyiv were the biggest centers of Rus for hundreds of years. Moscow only rose to prominence during the Horde, before that they weren't significant. Granted, the fact that they did rise to power is amazing given the unfortunate location, but Moscow wasn't in the picture for the beginning, nor was it 100% slav place. Again, not being 100% slav isn't something bad. Also, quick note, saying "Ancient Russian state" is a bit disingenuous. The majority of people in Ukraine, Belarus, and from what I can tell Russia called themselves Rus' or Rusyni up to 19th century. Not Russians. The place was referred to as Ruthenia on the maps.
Kossacs were not only from Ukraine, they were peasants who fled away from their landlords from places which now are Russia and Ukraine(maybe also from Belarus, but I don't know).
I like your fairly neutral presentation of Information. Your sincere effort is noticeable. As I have some Russian and Cossack ancestry myself, I would like to add some detail: Cossacks were an ethnically unhomogenous group, with many partially unrelated subgroups, some from today’s Central Russia, others from today’s Central Ukraine, others from various turcic tribes. There were individuals from Caucasus too. Also would have liked to hear more about the Finno-Ugric tribes, that were allied with Slavic tribes. Both formed the Rus.
Cossacks were known as warriors, they were in battles for payment to, and they were horrible and very dangerous toward people in the time of wars. They were present in Balkan wars to so this is what they say about.
VESNA 1111 The word Cossack comes from Irano-Scythian people in the first Millenia, that lived in the steppes of today‘s Southern Russia. It meant „free people“ or „ free man“. Later the turcic tribes from the East of Eurasia came, turcified the Scyths, and the Rus developped in what is today Ukraine, Belorus and part of European‘s Russia. Already at that time part of Southern Slavic tribes had mixed with Scythians. Additionally at the border of the Rus to the steppe land, Rus people mixed with parts of turcic tribes, that had asked to get permission to settle on Rus land and fight on the Rus side, ad they had pressure from the East from further incoming new turcic tribes. Those are the precursors of Cossack. This process actually proceeded actually until few centuries ago. Cossack is a mix of various people. There never has bern an ethical, religious, or political unity amongst the various Cossack groups. Further groups that led to the admixture were runaway Rus ( and successor state) peasants, refugees from the many wars in the Caucasus in the centuries before the state Russia was present there. Some groups were deliberately settled by the Russian Czar, e.g. part of Don Cossacks were Tatarian soldiers that were settled at the Don by Czar Iwan Grosny, the Terrk Cossacks came from Rjasan region and were settled by another czar ( including their families). Most cossacks never ever received any payment, as no state could have had such huge finances. Cossacks were warriors and had a civil profession at the same time, ad they had to support themselves, as they wanted to remain free people. Free from the European Christian feudal system, and free from the muslim khanates and its slave hunters. As beeing in a sandwich position without any natural protection Cossacks never have been a homogeneous group. Sometimes they fought against the Czar, sometimes for. Within a group they are very cooperation oriented, loyal. As an individual you don’t survive, or you get enslaved. Within their families they are warm and caring. Also they have strong spirits. Within my whole family I don’t know drug addicts, no degenerates, noone beats their wife. Also respect man fight against each other, not against weak people. Respect for nature and god is important. My family treats animals well. All born after WW2 don‘t self-identify as Cossacks anymore. Our steppe culture , language has been as such extinguished. But our spirit is alive. Good bye!
Not quite true about the Rus. They did form the Duchy of Moscow together as far as I understand. The word Rus is mostly a term for eastern slavs and their rulers who originally came from Nordic countries. I think "rus" means something like "to row" in Swedish and it's wildly speculated that the first slavic rulers in Novgorod and Kyiv were Swedish sailors/traders/raiders. So while technically Moscow was a part of the "Rus," Rus itself started long before the Duchy of Moscow and it wasn't with the help of Finno-Ugric tribes. They did have part in forming Moscow, I believe. As for the larger eastern slavs, you may be confusing Finno-Ugric people with Balts. Ukrainians and Belarus (who referred to themselves as Rus or Rusyni up to 19th century) did share the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the Balts.
Hyperborean Colonialism Don’t tell me my family history. We even had a kind of Ukrainian sounding plus turcic mix language, names and features. There were several turcic subgroups joining the Rus and post Rus people. Stop your nationalistic bullshit of stupidity. Even if some Russians ( since 2 generations my family members of Cossack origin identify as such) talk sometimes about everything what comes into their head ( including philosophy and bullshit;)), they aren’t segregation-rassistic like some other groups. Regarding ethnicity, identity they have a very fluent understanding. That happens when you live inmidst of a huge continent mainly on plane land and amongst many tribes/ethnicities. There is a constant coming and going. A certain flexibility or tolerance is a natural adaptation.
My mum is Russian and her DNA says 15% Finnish/Finno-Ugric on average, depending on the DNA-site. Her mother is from Udmurtia. Really interesting to find that, because her family considers itself 100% Russian.
@@t.on.y yeah I know that. But for example in my grandma's little home town the Udmurts are 3% of the population, there are even more Tatars, the vast majority are Russians. And before Russia this area was controlled by the likes of the Kazan Khanate and the Volga Bulgars. So the Udmurts might not be native to that particular area as well, only in certain parts of nowadays Udmurtia.
@@alexanders8519 in the Soviet Union, you obligatorilly had to indicate your nationality in identity documents. people deliberately hid their origins in order to avoid discrimination, and identified themselves as Russians. so there are officially many more "Russians" nowadays than there actually are.
Heh interesting there, I am just under half Russian from my Mother's side, and few years back genetic test came back with about 3% finnish, and like 1% Yakut. Thought that was pretty interesting.
In the Volga region, there were also those Magyars who didn´t settle in the Carpathian Basin and were strong enough to fend off the first Mongol attacks. They lived next to the Bashkirs or were possibly identic with them.
Video title: ETHNIC origins of the Russians The video: Procedes to talk about every ethnic minority living in Russia,but the ETHNIC Russians. Nice one.
@@Vitalis94 but the fact is that before the ancencion of slavic tribes in 5th century german people were dominant on the core slavic lands. Read about Gothic people and Chernyakhivska archeological culture.
Ethnic Russians are overwhelmingly Slavic in terms of genetic origin, incidentally, just like confirmed, historical Rurikids like Glev Sviatoslavich, Yaroslav Osmomysl, and Iziaslav Ingvarevich, courtesy of the exemplary study of the Population genomics of the "Viking World", by Ashot Margaryan, its findings have decisively refuted the Normanist theory of the origin of the Rurikids.
Russia hates the Norman theory but the evidence for it is strong. Even in Scandanavian manuscripts, let alone Rus manuscripts which talk about it directly.
@@alekshukhevych2644 The thing is, the evidence you speak of refers to a presence of Norsemen in Russia as the retinue of the Rus', but not as the Rus' themselves, the only exception to that is The Legend of the Invitation/Arrival, but that isn't even a historical event, but a mere legend, or at best, a semi-mythological recollection of events, whereas the Rus-Byzantine treaties and entire parts of the Primary Chronicle group the Rus' with the Slavs while distancing the Varangians from both and treating them as a third, unrelated entity, or outright state that the Rus' were originally Slavs, and strictly worshiped Slavic gods as early as Oleg, which rules out the argument of "Slavicization".
@@numenoreaneternity6682 Its quite obvious the Rus were Scandanavians. Where do you think the names Igor and Oleg come from? Ingvar and Helge. You can literally find things like " So Yaroslav went over to his Kin in Sweden for suppport". I know how much Russians dont like this, but its true and a fact at this point.
@@alekshukhevych2644 The problem is that the Old Norse versions of their names appear only a few centuries later, whereas the Slavic forms of their names are the only ones present in the Primary Chronicle and the Rus-Byzantine treaties, and Yaroslav's "Swedish relatives" are those by marriage, not blood, specifically the family of his wife Ingegerd of Sweden. And since we're on the matter, the most immediate and intimate reference to the origin of the Rurikids is the following paragraph, found on page 64: "Since Paul is the teacher of the Slavic race, from which we Russians too are sprung, even so, the Apostle Paul is the teacher of us Russians, for he preached to the Slavic nation, and appointed Andronicus as Bishop and successor to himself among them. But the Slavs and the Russes are one people, for it is because of the Varangians that the latter became known as Rus', though originally they were Slavs. While some Slavs were termed Polyanians, their speech was still Slavic, for they were known as Polyanians (29) because they lived in the fields. But they had the same Slavic language."- At best, the Normanist theory can state that the Rus', who were originally Slavic, were Normanized by the Varangians, whom this paragraph treats as a separated and alien entity, compared to other Slavs. And besides, we now have aDNA and Y-DNA confirmation that the original paternal Rurikids didn't just carry Slavic DNA, but have had minimal Germanic aDNA.
There's an OCA church I go to somewhat regularly, one of the church attendance I know is an 80 year old man named Larz who's half Russian-Aleutian by his mother's side and half Norwegian by his father's side. He's hard to understand because of his slow way of talking, but if you can understand him, he tells the most amazing stories about growing up in Alaska. The people one can meet is incredible.
Don Cossacks here, I would actually disagree with you on saying that Cossacks are not an ethnic group. Cossacks have many genetic commonalities, Zaporthian Cossacks and Terek Cossacks and Don Cossacks have allot of their origins rooted in Circassian and Ossetian admixture with local Russian tribes (however Muslim Circassians settled in the Don river). As for Siberian Cossacks, they were brought from the Don along with their leader Ermak Timofeyev who was a Don Cossack. Each Cossack host did not let foreigners, even regular Russians, penetrate their genetic line somewhere in the 1700s because after the Don Cossacks held 3 large rebellions so the Tsar decided to send the Don Cossacks a referendum with a list of rules to follow if they wanted to keep their freedom, a few of them are that the Ataman was to be elected by the tsar, marriages were to happen in churches and most importantly was one outlining how every Don Cossack Male had to serve 20-30 years in military. Keeping freedom was important, it meant that they get to have their own ranking, election system, avoid taxes, enjoy their own land and culture, the reason I mention this is that if any person tried to enter their land to avoid taxes and shit, they would be instantaneously fucking killed or chased back to Moscow because we were not going to serve 20 years in military so some guy who we do not know can just avoid taxes. This all meant that tradition, language and genetics were all very well preserved for the Cossacks and even Anatole Klyosov mentioned this in a podcast talking about how these Cossacks had almost 100% genetic mutations similar to eachother
Cossaks didn't consider themselves Muscovite and proclaimed independence in 1918. That's why Muscovites mostly exterminated them between 1918 and 1950.
Cossacks did not "primarily came from Ukraine". Most of them already existed on the territory of Novgorod and Moscow principalities and then Russian Tsardom. And i'm not talking only about Don Cossacks, Terek Cossacks, Kuban Cossacks, Volga Cossacks and Yaik (Ural) Cossacks. I'm talking about many earlier groups: Hoper Cossacks (14th - 16th centuries) - residents of the medieval Cossack state Chervlenny Yar (13th - 14th centuries, the territory of modern Saratov and Penza region of Russia) and descendants of the proto-Cossack tribes of brodniks and chigs (12th - 13th cent.). Hlynov (modern day Kirov, Russia) Cossacks or Vytka Cossacks (15th - 16th cent.) - descendants of Novgorod's ushkuyniks (11th - 15th cent.) - river pirates and merchants. Sevruki (15th - 17th cent.) - descendants of Severians (8th - 11th cent.) ancient East Slavic tribe. Meshcherian Cossacks or Meshcherians or Meshcherian Tatars (15th -16th cent.) - It was a regular army (mostly muslims) of the Kasimov “kings” and “princes” (Tatar khans) who, for various reasons, emigrated to Russia and since the middle of the 15th century served the Moscow Grand Dukes, and then the Tsars. They originally lived in the forest-steppe and steppe of the historical region of Meshchera, located in the modern - northern and eastern parts of the Tula region, southeastern parts of Moscow region, in Ryazan region, in the south of Vladimir region, in the north of the Tambov region, Penza regions and further, to the Middle Volga region. And just a little about Yik (Ural) Cossacks - they although speaking Russian and identifying themselves as being of primarily Russian ancestry also incorporated many Tatars into their ranks. Some of these Tatars called themselves Bulgarians of Khazar origin, and the first Yaik Cossacks, including these Tatars and Russians, already existed on Ural (Yaik) river by the end of 14th century.Also these Tatars might be both Chuvash people and Meshcherians, the latter had not only Muslims and Jews, but Christians among them to facilitate their merge with Russians. Later, after the defeat of the Nogai horde a lot of Nogais joined Yaik Cossacks. And where are the Ukrainians here, which in that time just begining germinate as a separate nation within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth? Masaman knows nothing about it...
@@CrazyLeiFeng Russians are Slavs according to every genetical study, and are closely related to Ukrainians, Poles, Slovaks and Byelorussians. Stop spreading lies.
Depends which Russians you test tbh. But truth be told most slavic Russians are actly in roots Ukrainian or Belarusian or even Polish. The amount of Russians that have Ukrainian last names baffles me.
Russians (in the western part are more ethnic) can be said to be quite European in appearance, but northern Russia by origin is completely separate from the Russian populations below.
Russians in Nothern Russia took genetics from the Baltic people and Finns thats why they look a little bit different from the rest of the Russians in the European part of Russia. Beyond the Ural, you will find a lot of non-Russians or people who mixed together
Много неточностей и откровенной лжи. Во первых, во времена монгольского ига никакой "страны" не было, была раздробленная Русь и далеко не все княжества были под иго, например монголы так и не дошли до Новгорода. Во вторых, казаки не украинцы. Казаки - это некое сословие, которое жило вольно со своим образом жизни. Были запорожские казаки и донские казаки, это разные казаки и именно донские казаки считали себя русскими казаками (Это я как потомок донских казаков рассказываю). В третьих, сравнение дикого запада в Америке и восточной части России тупое, потому-что русские при осваивании востока не устраивали геноцид коренных народов и до сих пор каждый округ и область в России называется в честь коренного народа проживающего на это земле
монголы до новгорода не дошли, но дань он какое-то время платил. ну и в америке коренные народы еще сами загеноцидились об евроазиатские болезни, у сибирских племен я думаю уже был контакт с всеми этими болезнями, поэтому там больше половины от них не сдохло просто от завезенных болезней. Ну и места полно, даже если геноцид был - всегда был лес, а в случае юга и горы, куда они могли сваливать хоть до конца времен
@Masaman Cossacks did not "primarily came from Ukraine". Most of them already existed on the territory of Novgorod and Moscow principalities and then Russian Tsardom. And i'm not talking only about Don Cossacks, Terek Cossacks, Kuban Cossacks, Volga Cossacks and Yaik (Ural) Cossacks. I'm talking about many earlier groups: Hoper Cossacks (14th - 16th centuries) - residents of the medieval Cossack state Chervlenny Yar (13th - 14th centuries, the territory of modern Saratov and Penza region of Russia) and descendants of the proto-Cossack tribes of brodniks and chigs (12th - 13th cent.). Hlynov (modern day Kirov, Russia) Cossacks or Vytka Cossacks (15th - 16th cent.) - descendants of Novgorod's ushkuyniks (11th - 15th cent.) - river pirates and merchants. Sevruki (15th - 17th cent.) - descendants of Severians (8th - 11th cent.) ancient East Slavic tribe. Meshcherian Cossacks or Meshcherians or Meshcherian Tatars (15th -16th cent.) - It was a regular army (mostly muslims) of the Kasimov “kings” and “princes” (Tatar khans) who, for various reasons, emigrated to Russia and since the middle of the 15th century served the Moscow Grand Dukes, and then the Tsars. They originally lived in the forest-steppe and steppe of the historical region of Meshchera, located in the modern - northern and eastern parts of the Tula region, southeastern parts of Moscow region, in Ryazan region, in the south of Vladimir region, in the north of the Tambov region, Penza regions and further, to the Middle Volga region. And just a little about Yik (Ural) Cossacks - they although speaking Russian and identifying themselves as being of primarily Russian ancestry also incorporated many Tatars into their ranks. Some of these Tatars called themselves Bulgarians of Khazar origin, and the first Yaik Cossacks, including these Tatars and Russians, already existed on Ural (Yaik) river by the end of 14th century.Also these Tatars might be both Chuvash people and Meshcherians, the latter had not only Muslims and Jews, but Christians among them to facilitate their merge with Russians. Later, after the defeat of the Nogai horde a lot of Nogais joined Yaik Cossacks. And where are the Ukrainians here, which in that time just begining germinate as a separate nation within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth? My ancestors was Ural Cossacks and I am very offended by your incorrect understanding of the history of the Russian Cossacks. Just read about it and make another video especial about Cossacks origin.
Cossacks were a heritage of Orda(Tartar Imperia), the first cossacks were known at first part 15 age in Slavic lands, in Cherkasy (Ukraine) and Ryazan (Russia).
I love Russia and Russian people. I love the history of Russia and its culture but the only thing I hate is Bolschevism and Marxism and their appearance in Russia.
But thanks to communism, we sent the first man, the first satellite, the first planet rover, the first telescope into space, built the first nuclear station and much more. Do you think that communism ruined our nation?
Кристина Волкова Yes ofcourse, it ruined your Nation completely. Don’t forget, that the inventions you are talking about didn’t happen under communist regime or whosoever. After WW2, there were too many people, who migrated from , Western, Central Europe and Eastern Europe to Russia. It is only because of these creative people, who were Aryans and because of the the inventions of these people, Soviet Union became strong. In America, the same incident took place, where huge German migrations started and the Americans provided the Citizenship to those creative scientist, who were Germans or in other words, Aryans. This is our misfortune, that people can’t see the truth, where only a group of creative people sows the seed of a gigantic work but some other unscrupulous people gets the benefits pr rather exploits it. The Comminists government killed so many innocent Russians just to seize the power over this great people. The people play an integral role in a society, not any government. And the fact is that, one day Communism and Marxism will corrode whole of humanity from its destructive intellectual acid.
@@Victoria44I77 All of that at the cost of millions of people, living under a non-functional economical system that brought the state to ruin. What if the revolution failed? Had Russia become democratic and capitalistic, would they accomplish as much?
Fascinating. You do amazing work. This video could be 5 times longer. You just glossed over the key points. A more detailed video would be appreciated.
They are Caucasians in geographical, or "racial"? sense, rather than linguistic or cultural. Though one could argue there is some kind of cultural Caucasian continuum.
@@Vitalis94 Well, he didn't use it as a racial term, as he listed other european groups before that, like germans, ashkenazi jews, romani, etc. Not in geographical, as almost all groups living in Russia can be found in the caucasus. Not cultural, as these people's cultures are very different.
@@CrazyLeiFeng Great Lithuania was far from only Slavic. Lithuania Proper was the most densely populated area along with the capital of the state - Vilnius. Official records began in 17th century it was even more Lithuanian in Middle Ages. Former lands of Kyivan Rus were recovering from Mongol devastation. Lithuanian troop crews were sent deep in territories of Great Lithuania even along the Black Sea as support against Tatars. These crews stationed in Slavic lands converted from Paganism to Catholicism by the order of Grand Duke Jogaila. pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rzeczpospolita_Obojga_Narod%C3%B3w#/media/Plik:The_density_of_the_urban_network_per_voivodeship_of_Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth_ca._1650.PNG
81% of Russia is ethnically Russian, and about 90-95% is white, considering when you add other white ethnic groups such as Ukrainians, Belarusians, Mari, fino-urgic peoples, etc.
Term "white" doesn't really apply to Russia and most of Eastern Europe, most people (aside from neo nazis) don't see themselves as white, that's purely American thing.
@@Vitalis94 You are right. It used to be the case in Central and Eastern Europe but the 21st century Muscovites started to call the immigrants from the Caucus and Central Asia as "blacks" (ch'ornye).
@@Vitalis94 hell, this word... I think Russians have never seen people with black skin in their lives, so for them all the people from the southern republics are black-skinned
‘ love to hate ‘ !? What a typically, disappointedly piece of mainstream drivel that I’m appalled to hear you line up to join in contributing to the BBC, Fox News, etc. broken record echo chamber. ‘ Love to hate ‘ !? Do you suppose for a moment that Americans are viewed with much more liking than loathing, detestation, and even sheer hatred across enormous swathes of her globe ? The ignorance, presumptuousness, sheer bumbling and offensive cluelessness of , sadly, denizens of the US easily surpasses any offence caused by Russians. Wars, occupations, base establishment, intimidation’s, boorish bullying from Venezuela to Lebanon,...Russian-aligned ? Hardly worthy of a tenable claim..
Rhodium. Thank you so much for making me laugh before going to bed. Your description is so great that I am copying it. Best wishes from an American in New York.
Well, Russians really have good immunity and genetics. I usually start to get sick immediately when the temperature drops and I can not imagine how Russians live in such a cold climate for centuries and do not get sick. That's cool. All these northern Asians living in Russia are also incredibly hardy and strong.
Our ancestors was settled here more than 1000 years ago, thats the reason. Personally I have light flu 1-2 times per year, but my immunity weakened by nicotine (I am hard smoker), alcohol and harmful work ( I am grinder).
@Zahin Shahazad Lol, true. I'm a mix of russian/ukrainian and polish (as you can see by my last name) and I prefer cold weather to hot one, +15/+20C (~ 59/68F) is a perfect range for me. When it's +30/+35 (86/95) outside - for me it feels like I'm being fried in the oven.
Once in my school times in Minnesota. I saw the ethnic map of the Russian Empire. It was more than 180 nationalities. After Russian revolution only half of them was recognised. Some nations left - like Polish, Finns, etc. Some nations in Stalin times was mixed like Tatars and Bashkirs, many North Western nations. Some of them was erased from history books like Don cossack's. But modern Russia was built after 1000 years by Slavs, Norseman, Byzantine, Golden Horde Nobels, Eastern Europeans, Western Europeans (mostly Germans), Greeks from Ottoman Empire, Siberians, Caucasians. descendantTerribleByzantinesuccessorNobelsthousandsimmigrantsEasternWe all Russians now.
Thank you so much for doing a video about Russian ethnicity. I am myself a Siberian Russian. My ancestors were from Southern European Russia from Volga and Don river basin regions, but then in late XIX-early XX century they moved to South-Western Siberia, an Ob' river basin region. A resettling program was organized at this time (mainly 1900-s) for a lot of peasants who were liberated after 1861, and much of land was offered to them in Siberia, although far less than a half of Siberian land was any suitable for agriculturing due to climate.
@@sara_s_ and you are probably a Papuan from Australia. Siberia is still almost not inhabited by people - the indigenous inhabitants there are only wolves.
For many years, I've been fascinated by Beringia, and the migration of Siberian people across the Land Bridge during the Ice Ages. And I have a love for the Natives in Siberia. Particularly fascinated by the Chukchi; the Kolyak, and the Samoyed.
My sisters and I all have triangular teeth and our dentist thought we might be part Native American Indian, whereas Roberta Estes confirmed it is probably our Finnish/Russian ancestry. We have zero American Indian LOL
Actually Russians has strong Dnieper-Baltic and Finno-Ugric ancestry from peoples like Golyad` and Merya. Of course they are still be mostly slavic (except for Pomors), but they arent very close to be almost pure-blooded slavic.
@@probus6678 No, you are wrong ) I am Russian nationalist. And by the way: I didn`t say that FU-ancestry in Russians is more than 10%. The rest is slavic and baltic (~20%)
@@rincewindthewizhard2363 The extensive analysis of the Russian pool of paternal lines presented here establishes the following general features: (1) the insignificance of the eastern gene flow, emphasized by the absence of typical haplogroups of Eastern and Central Asia; (2) well-pronounced gradients from north to south of specific haplogroups in the historical Russian region; (3) the division of its general diversity into northern and central-southern populations; (4) the proximity of the northern populations to the north-eastern and eastern non-Slavic populations, which implies extensive assimilation or even a direct change in the language; Russian Russians (5) lower Y-chromosomal variations throughout central-southern historical Russia compared to high variations among northern Russians; (6) proximity, the achievement of a virtual coincidence in the MDS plot, in the Y-chromosomal variation between central-southern Russians with Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles; and (7) this significant intra-ethnic differentiation of the North Russian population is the only exception to the rule found; in the broader European context, interethnic (mainly linguistic) differences strongly prevail. Russian Russians ' Y-chromosome pool in their historical settlement zone is mainly a composite composite of their Proto-Slavic heritage and, in particular, in the Russian North, an extensive admixture with Finno-Ugric speakers. This bipartite scenario of the main sources of origin of modern ethnic Russians is supported by the analysis of classical markers presented here and can be used as a working hypothesis for a better understanding of the genetic diversity and demographic history of Eurasian populations. Its patrilineal aspect can be further refined by a detailed study of STR variations in phylogenetic biliallelic haplogroups, although new informative SNPs should be identified for deeper progress, in particular, given that only a small part of the Y chromosome has been studied so far for markers potentially informative for phylogeographic research3. www.cell.com/fulltext/S0002-9297%2807%2900025-0
Could you do a video on the Russian conquest as they moved east through Siberia? Were there battles, massacres, relocations? I don't know much about it and I think it would be interesting.
Both the battles, massacres and relocations happened, it's indeed a fascinating history. You know, you could read about it yourself, you know: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_conquest_of_Siberia
Angelo Greco: I think you are at the wrong channel for that. This channel focuses on genetics and ethnics based approach to antropology in an historic context, but doesn't really discuss specific historic events and personalities.
You should make a video about the Pomors & the other Russian sub ethnicities. I really have no idea & would like to know. You could include the Ruthenians (are they ancient Ukrainians, Belarussians or just a regional group in between?).
Very true. I love the Slavic people, I love Russia! I don't know why but I've always had a fascination for the Slavic people. As a Western citizen they seem like our people but more united and proud.
Russians are east slavic ethnic group Sure in Russia live many nations, but ethnic Russians are the most significant population of the country about 80% and they are slavs You show many indigenous people of caucasus and Siberia like they all are Russians and like Russian ethnicity not exist, but they are not Russians by ethnic, like gypsies in Romania are not Romanians, they sure Russians by country and so on, but there are the differences. With Respect!
I am half slavic Russian and half germanic German and i love both countries. Just name one country with 200 peoples who survived till today! Russia is truly multicultural. Greetings to all Russian peoples.
I married a Russian who basically told me the same things about Russians. What was not said was that many times, Russians were forced relocated to other parts of Russians by both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Example is that my wife's grandparents were relocated from the Ukraine and Krasnodar to Moscow by Stalin.
In late empire period most of Russians moved by their own will, because there was lots of unused land that was free for growing wheat. At those time we had more freedom than in USSR.
@@t.on.y Ну да, ссылка крестьянина в качестве наказания - абсолютно добровольный переезд. Перед тем, как хрустеть булкой, почитайте хотя бы имперские законы.
@@t.on.y It's a shame Communism took over the common sense of socialism, for the lesserment of the human race. Socialism without authoritarianism is freer than the USA or the USSR or the Empire of the Tsar. Perhaps these disasters could lead us to conclude we should at least give it a try.
There are many ethnic groups in Russia as there are in the United States. Consider the Hispanics, American Indians the Inuit the Aleutians, and the Black Americans that came from various parts of Africa.
@@hussar843 And in the USA it is the same, even worse. Black people were brought there as slaves and the indigenous people of America have lost their culture due to the oppression and forced asylum of the Europeans. Although there is sometimes racism from Slavic Russians, the indigenous people have more freedom and have been able to keep their identity.
@@tsukuyomi2522 Most of people there are ethnic Russians, look like ordinary Russians found in Europe, but there are also some Chinese present. Not really mixed as of yet, maybe in the future?
@@Vitalis94 Recent mixing is odd. My mother is Afghani and father is Russian who claims cossack Ancestry dont know much of cossacks in terms of genetics,culture,and way of life. I believe that I'm Slavic- Afghani-Turk.
Correction The First State was Novgorod Rus in fact they are the one who ordered to Build Kiev And Rurik was First Varangian chieftain Who build First town state of Novgorod
@@petosiris173 And Befor Rus it was Gordarika Land of towns in old russian/slavic AND no Novgorod Russ Was Before Kiev Russ it's just separation of time based on Capital City (dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/ruwiki/99206) Tho its in russian but auto translate page will help ya
Are Slavs and Eastern Europeans considered Europeans? Considered how people have behaved with them in the West, I'm not really sure they are considered exactly European in the same way Germans consider the Dutch or the Swedish European. It's almost as if there was missing this feeling of brotherhood that exists between Western European nation.
There's two major groups of europeans today: Germanics and Slavs. It's completely fair to consider them not-germanic and different if you are west-euro, they don't really have a problem with that either, but to call them not europeans... I mean what else are they? By rule of elimination they are 'europeans in the east' = east-euros.
@@borisbuliak3626 not nearly as much as a swede obviously, but hispania and italia were overrun by germanic tribes during the fall of the western roman empire and they stayed there. Old Mediterranean genes and celtic genes are of course still here, but they don't dominate one half of Europe each like germanic and slavic do.
Born Russian, raised West European, I always questioned the "Slavic" ethnicity.. In my eyes it is just a cultural identity. Not many Slavic people ask themselves what Slavic actually means. It is therefore successfully used for nationalism and division. To non-Slavs I always simplistically explain that Slavs are actually a mix of Scandinavians and local tribes that already lived in Eastern Europe. And to impress them about Russia I say that Russia has 200 different peoples, half of which are indigenous. NOT MANY foreigners know that about Russia, which is a shame in my eyes!
Slav is a genetic group. Most slavs are almost genetically similar with few exceptions like west polish. Hence slavs are a ethnic group with distinct genetic makeup from Nordic and celtic peoples.
@@ThatShitGood No. Rus Vikings traveled along rivers through territory inhabited by Slavic tribes to trade with Constantinople. Slavic peoples most likely originated in Ukraine
It's hard, because in English you just call all the people of Russia Russians, but in Russia we have 2 different words, Russian in english is not the same as Russian in russian language. Russians are a mono-ethnic slavic group. And here we have the word Rossiyane, which mean all the nations and citizens of Russia.
Russian is not Slavic at all. it' s not true. Russian is name for finnish group of natanalities.
@@beautifulbutterfly5578 victim of propaganda
@@fapflix Well, technically, the Russians were the Varangians who arrived in Russia, the Slavic tribes took the name Russian, because your first kings were Varangians with a Russian surname and as the other tribes that joined Russia grew, they also began to be called Russians.
@@darkebmindustrial3632 Это теория а не факт
what you mean by russian in english and russian in russian
10:00 I'm from Far East of Russia, and i first time hear about "Identify more regionally". Independence? Are you joking? No one is talking about it in Primorsky Krai for example... Everyone here is Russian, speak Russian and identify as Russian...
American propaganda
Вау, очень далеко на восток ))
Tartarian Lives Matter, Ever since the “Special Military Operation™️“ you lot are paranoid with seeing propaganda everywhere 😂
Та же хуйня, правда я с центральной сибири, но не думаю что для иностранцев сибирь вообще делится на какие-то подразделения
@@keyboardemperor3540 masaman isn't even American 😂
The Russians are great people.. I was treated like a king in Moscow, and a little town we stayed at.. The food was so good, and the men are men, women are beautiful.. Cheers..
Braun Tough you must have been white
@@jayfay786 My father is Black, and my Mother is white??
@@brauntough9088 A king? 😂You overestimate yourself.
Me and my wife did DNA tests (We are Russian) and both of us were mostly slavic about 90% with the last 10% or so being Baltic.
Artoria Pendragon no it just had 3 stripes.
@@kolinmartz That flag confuses me has been used in quite a few places it seems
@@kstreet7438 I say, the reference is (likely) to the subculture of the Gopniki. And it might be offensive. Investigate the motto "Three stripes for life," and you'll find Adidas gear along with plenty of memes. Apologies if I've been pedantic. Cheers.
Artoria Pendragon The DNA says “eastern European” smartass!
Paul Germanos Кому ты объясняешь? Великий ты наш эксперт
I am always amazed how they managed such a great mass of land for so long despite in those early days transportation was more tricky
It was due to mongolian empire, mongol rule made it possible.
Frankly speaking, they didn't control it very harshly, especially Chukotka) They only built some fortresses and collected taxes. No forceful christianisation, no enslaving of local peoples (ethnical Russians were the only slaves in the country), no marginalization of language and culture. Many Russians tried to escape slavery, they ran away from landlords and hid near local peoples. Many fled there because of religious persecution - they didn't accept Church reform in XVII century. All of them were a minority, they didn't want to quarrel.
Yes, there are other reasons as Mongol rule in the region (some infrastructure remained). Also, Russians helped Siberian leaders to fight against Manchurs and Chinese. Apart from that, local elites were respected, and Cossack leaders married local leaders' daughters. I think respect for culture made us very different from invaders from other territories.
BTW from first schools until today indigenous children all over the country study their language and culture at school, especially if it's boarding schools for children of nomadic peoples. Swinging lasso is mandatory at P E lessons:) children should know how to help with the herd.
@@svetlanakaravaeva7636 Your comment is extremely ignorant towards Russian state, during the conquest of chukotka many natives died and Russians continued into America's Alaska, you claim Russians were enslaved in your confused mind of todays thinking as a result of the serf system Russians ethnicity managed to expand to become one of the largest in the world and created huge living space to the east and south which it can inhabit while the free chukchas still number nine thousand haha, the government simply had more controlled over Russian nation and so it progressed just like todays Chinese government has done with its population its not slavery, hope this comment will make you see history the in a different way and stope you from writing bad stories about Russias history.
@@l5475 My opinion will remain the same: they didn't control Siberia well, especially Chukotka. This is one of the reasons why indigenous peoples preserved their culture.
Russian government failed to negotiate in Alaska, otherwise life there would be much better for indigenous peoples.
And, yes, indigenous children study their language, culture and traditional way of life at school. I travel around the country and hear people speak their languages everywhere.
If you've never lived in Russia, it's not easy to understand our life here. The government doesn't control the country harshly, and it's very good for everybody.
@@svetlanakaravaeva7636 your comment proves what I said yes the Russians were very kind in some circumstances to the conquerd people which is why you hear the language but the idea of russians as enslaved is wrong as for chukotka today Russians are majority and the land belongs to Russia.
Thanks for the video, I'm a Russian citizen, but not completely Russian from the ethnic point of view. Some people think that such a huge territory consists only of Slavic tribes... And they get shocked when they find out there's a big diversity of peoples
What is your ethnicity if I may ask?
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She looks Turkic
I'm slavic-Afgan-Turk mixed
Same for me. Another half-blood Russian here.
There are more than 150 ethnicities in Russia
Zamira Ivano - that’s an interesting mix, Afghan as is from Afghanistan?
ethnic russians are of Slavic(eastern slavs), Scandinavian(Rus' people) and Finno-Baltic origin. All these ethnic groups (even though the Slavs are a cultural-linguistic group, we take them here) form a single Russian ethnos and that is why Russian Tsars had the title "Tsar of All Russians". This title literally means that this Tsar rules over the whole spectrum of indigenous ethnic groups of the Russian principalities: Slavs, nords, finns and balts. As Churchill said: "Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"
"Ethnic Russians" are NOT of Slavic descent. They are either Finno-Ugric (Merya, Mordva, etc) or Turkic (Tatars). Their language was created by Balkan missionaries and hence is a dialect of Bulgarian, not similar to Ukrainian.
@@CrazyLeiFeng absolute nonsence
well said churchill he. was. fortunate that Russia was on his side to defeat the Nazis
@@CrazyLeiFeng not entirely true, Slavic tribes did have a big presence in Western part of what is now Russia and mixed with Finno-ugric people, but Turkic heritage is common only in more Eastern areas, like lower Volga, Urals and West Siberia. In the westernmost Russians it is very uncommon
@@CrazyLeiFeng Except Russian is similar to Ukrainian and no, Russians do not descend from Tatars or Mongols. Stop spreading your non-sense.
With respect, the Russian Empire's conquest of Siberia was in no way comparable to the bloodshed of the Western Europeans' conquest of North America. Firstly, these areas were far less densely populated owing to their northerly, remote nature. Secondly, the state's conscious policy was mostly of coexistence with and taxation of local tribes, and less often, assimilation. In fact, according to respected Siberia scholar N.I. Nikitin, it was often the case that settlers' complaints about conflicts with locals over fishing resources, hunting rights, etc. went unanswered by the central government, which wanted to make the profits off Siberia's riches, but didn't want to spend money on garrisons and policing (Nikitin, 'The Absorption of Siberia in the XVII Century', 1990). This meant settlers either had to fight locals themselves, or learn to get along. Also, for one reason or another, the Russians never seemed to share the ideas of racial supremacy over conquered peoples as other European powers had. Altogether, this has helped to save so many distinct ethnic groups within the Russian Empire (up to 185 different ethnic groups), and, in the 19th and 20th centuries, led to many people from these minorities taking up prominent positions in government, the military, culture, and other areas. P.S. I am half ethnic Russian, half Turkic Chuvash myself.
You don't live in Russia. You live in fantasy land.
Seamus Talltree - Why do you say that? You think OP is lying or misinformed about Russian colonialism/expansionism?
Ask Chukcha if he agrees.
One thing to consider - Russia is full of Uralic and Turkic natives to this day, while barely any natives are present in America, even more so in the north.
In contrast to all other countries, Russia managed to save different 200 peoples ! I don't think 200 tribes of natives remained in any american country. So USA trolls and other imbeciles --> STFU you know nothing about my fatherland Russia and my motherland Germany. Слава Русьи и Германий !
Greeting from russian pomor living in Helsinki, Finland!
@FINNISH BULL Yeah, yeah, the typpical racist westerner at his best. LOL
Go back to putin
Do you speak Pomorske Govorja?
@@alekshukhevych2644 maybe, but north russian Govorja very big part in Russian language because our language mixed north and south Govorja russian language+church Slavonic.
@@pickle6599 It is not a big part of the Russian language, some Novgorod dialects have indeed contributed to the Russian language but not nearly as much. Moscowite Slavic simply took over, mostly due to the genocide and deportation of Novgorodians.
Russians have a rich historical background, very courageous and hard working nation.
Really?
You have to be hardworking/tough to survive those winters and famines.
@@CrazyLeiFeng jealous much
Fun Fact: Russia is more advanced than USA.
@@Nikobellic415no
Thank you, Mason. That was excellent and answered a lot of questions I had about the ethnicity of modern day Siberians.
Greetings from Russia, comrades ✋🏻
Hi baby
Besmir Besmir Ukraine is Russia
Slava!
@@konplayz can't say better!!👍
@@konplayz after WW3 there won't be russians... :(
"And this wasn't even their final form" kneel before the motherland
Such a beautiful and diverse nation. I was always fascinated with Russia, growing up during the cold war I was always suspicious of being told that it was a 'bad' country so I read as much as I could about it. I love the literature that comes from Russia, the food the wildlife and of course the ballet lol my first vinyl record my parents ever bought for me was Peter and the wolf and it was the soundtrack of my childhood. 💕💕 RUSSIA 💕💕
Russia had a bad evil government the Soviets from 1917 until around 1992 The people are not They are good Christian people for 1000 years
Scp 173 yes that is true but that’s western influence
Perhaps you should have read more. Ballet has its origins in Italy.
It's not a nation, but a federation of many different nations. Russia is empire.
Tbh russia is a shit imperialist state, and one that never granted independence to the colonized. The land and the people are mostly cool.
In Russia you're classified as an ethnic Russian (those who speak the East Slavic language related to Belarussian and Ukrainian) or you are classified as a Russian citizen (even if you are one of those ethnic groups who belong to the Paleo-Siberian language).
Russkiye is the word for ethnic russians that make up most of the population and rossiyane is for russian citizens.
English does not have special word for Russian by citizenship, but in russia we say Russian - means ethnicity and Rossianin - means you can be any ethnicity but it is mens Russian- citizen.
Mason, your videos are highly educational and informative, this channel has honestly been a god send in terms of advancing my knowledge on haplogroups, cultures, countries and anthropology in general. A massive thanks from myself and keep doing what you're doing
Caucasians like Chechens and Dagestanis or Circassians have no resemblance with middle easterns not culturally nor phenotypically they only share the religion, still to this day Circassians live between Arabs and they're totally different and distinguishable.
That’s what I noticed from the very beginning, bullshit
And even turkic Dagestanis look different than Chechens and Circassians, who are original Caucasians
@@janefonda3749 even Dagestani people are very different inside Dagestan, even comparable differences to whole European russia
There are turkic caucasians though. Nogais for example.
It's cock Asian.
Thanks Masaman !
The Russians have so much history and so many global events in the world that involved and still involve them.
Honestly not so much history, Slavs were almost unknown before 500 AD. Slavs had no idea of statehood untill 9th century when slavic tribes were conquered by the Vikings.
And Russian history can be traced back to 14-15th centuries, it's a rather young nation when it comes to Eurasian affairs.
@@JameBlack Kievan Rus was founded in 9 century, first Rurikovich dynast beginning with Svyatoslav and Vladimir already were Slavicied, how does Russian history only begins in 14 century?
Russians like other Slavs originated from Indo-European Yammna culture/Kurgan culture. Their gene is the haplogroup R1A that's spread throughout Eurasia as far as west china and Mongolia thanks to the Iranic speaking Scythians and other indo-Europeans related to them such as Sarmations in antiquity.
The core of these eastern Indo-Europeans was the Eurasian steppe which is still dominated by people carrying R1A gene...the Russians.
@@Vitalis94 Russian history as a history of modern Russian Federation. Core land of modern russians were almost uninhabited in 9th century, the history of preMongolian eastern slavs is mostly a history of the territories of modern Ukraine
I got a(n) DNA test done, and found out that I 58% of my DNA was/is from Eastern Europe and Russia.
Which wasn’t too much of a surprise for me as I had known I was adopted from Irkutsk Russia my whole life, as my family had decided to not lie to me about that.
But it still make me very curious about my own heritage as I know nothing of who my biological parents were.
I grew up in Alaska. In middle school our mascot was the Cossack. We were the Kenai Kossacks.
It's so cool to see a thriving youtube channel (over 350K subs) talking about ethnicity in sensitive 2020.
Just being able to talk neutrally or even passionately about these kind of things without backlash. Keep it up. (I know Masaman probably won't read this personally but the message remains.)
of course he can speak about it because he’s not racist or patronising to any ethnicity he just passes on historically accepted information and facts
@@AkwaIbomDoll Exactly, and agreed, but the OP said "in *sensitive* 2020", meaning that these last few years, even historically accepted information and facts can still (and does) become interpreted and judged as racist...even neutrally and factually yet delicately discussing such interesting topics as race, ethnicity, cultures and their origins (as Masaman excellently does) while *neither being a racist* can possibly peg or "flag" a person as still being racist by some in our "enlightened" 2020s.
So the OP is correct, as well as you.
I’d love to see a video on Sakhalin. The tour books say some towns in the south are 10% Korean because of Japanese rule 1905-1945. Then there’s the Ainu, Orok and Nivkh peoples. Chekhov wrote about it when it was a gigantic Alcatraz.
I live in Sakhalin. There are indeed a lot of Koreans here, about 10% of the population, about 5% are Arabs, the remaining 85% are Caucasians
Японцы считают айнов протояпонцами, но так ли это? Вы знаете проихождение айнов?
@@sef1ex We do not have 5% Arabs - but Central Asians.
@@АсяЯсень-х8й Не думаю что они их считают протояпонцами - просто местное население которое там было еще до японцев. Так же как мы не считаем нивхов просто русскими только потому что они были на Сахалине еще до появления Русских.
Russia, Far Eastern Federal District, Sakhalin Island, Korsakov small town(Population: 33,259 - Ethnic Russians 86.46%, Koreans 5.27%; Ukrainians 2.56%; Tatars 1.03%), High School N 1. Waltz graduation *1iphqgx9OuE* Final song "Childhood" *Ics9iFFer9c*
Great literature, great music, great art... land of philosophers and psychics.
I remember "march of the tin soldiers", which played in Tom and Jerry. It was performed by Tchaikovsky. But Waltz no. 2 (Shostakovich) is above all praise.
th-cam.com/video/mmCnQDUSO4I/w-d-xo.html
Slava!
I have nothing but love for Russia.
And beautiful women 😍
I'm not suprised you said that, coming from a guy named 'Jim Crow.'
I am russians all off my ancestors are from Northen Russia (Pomor as you say in video) may be that in genetic relation we are more Uralic people but in fact there are so much blue - eyed and white haired people than anywhere in Russia and I get asked all the time did i have some German or Scandinavian ancestor
Finns also have mostly blue eyes. It doesn't necessairly equate with Germanic ancestry, blue eyes are just common in Northern Europe.
@kimi Got any sources on that? Obviously, Balts were present in Russia, hell, Moscow area before it's conquest by the Rus, was inhabited by Baltic Eastern Galindians.
@@Vitalis94 it is know that colored eyes specifically blue eyes originated in the Baltic region.
No, blue eyes and blond hair originated in Finland. Baltics adopted our features.
@@Vitalis94 That''s true, they also have one of the highest percentages of blondes in the world. Yet the Finns started to mix with the Scandinavians long time ago, thousands of years ago. And where this started, how far east this area reached? And are all the blondes and blue-eyed people in the Pomor region descendants of later migration, or where they there, when the Finno-Ugric people came. Aslo, are they older than the Scandinavians too, at least the language? The Scandinavians have a mostly a bit different genetic origin than most Europeans. But because tehir language is Indo-European, it's possible that they adapted that later, and their older language vanished. But if that was the case, it resulted then in the Germanic language Group. So in this theory, the older language would have influenced in what makes Germanic languages different from the the other Indo-Europeans of Europe, like Celtic, Slavic, Romance etc.
Celtic languages also show some influence of non-Indo-European languages, maybe Basque-type languages, because the genetics show that the British Islanders (Celtic or English) are still mostly related to Basques genetically, who speak a non-Indo-European language. Also the romance languages and Greek show signs of influence from a substratum language, one that was there before they came into the land.
All this means, that who knows what was the culture of the blue-eyed and blonde people of the north originally, maube mneither Scandinavian nor Uralic, they likely migrated from the Bakans, there are genetic relatives there. These people were in europe before those who brought the Indo-European languages. This relates to Pomors in that their langauge and culture can have changed many times, like it has changed from the Uralic to Russian. But I've heard there are some fish names and other nature names int heir dialects that are Uralic. And place names are many, especially around the Karelian area, where the change to Russian language is even a younger incidence. But also further south, like around Novgorod there are Uralic names.
Even Moscow was established amidst Uralic people, like Merya, Muroma, and was it Meshchina people. Alsothe Volga name sounds like it might came from Uralic languages: Finnish has Valkea, Valko- 'white', Estonian have Valge, Livonians Vaalga - meaning the same. That sound with k in Finnish, and g in estonian & Livonian is not quite g, nor is it as strong as in English, so the English migh here it as g, and the Russians. Even recently Russians have turned Finnish k, p & t to g, b & d in Finnish family names that have been decades or centuries with names of Finnish (or closely related language) origin. This doesn't prove anything of course, but just says it's possible.
And the city of Samara could be Uralic by it's structure, but also Turkic or Russian etc. But it's the southernmost area where Uralic people have long existed, in Samara region it's the Mordvinians (Mordva people). When there's also the Mari people north or Volga, it sounds like all those Merya, Muroma, Mari & Mordva nations (maybe sa-mara too) come from a common culture where the name was Mar, Mer, Mor… something.
Russia is not country, but it's empire. Many empires were existing on Eurasian continent. Empire consists of many different nations many times even not related to each other.
It's not an empire. We don't have the emperor and colonies. It's called federation.
@@exception05 It does not matter how you call it! It's empire, and you have tzar! Congratulations! Federation? Fuc* no! Even not close to it!
@Arid Sohan Glory to Ichkeria! You won against huge empire! You are brave and will be free soon from Moscow rule!
@@beautifulbutterfly5578 Yes, you are right, but technically no.
@@exception05 well technically Crimea is Ukraine, but it didn't bother Putin
Quite interesting, I think Russia is one of the most fascinating ethnic topics. This video DEFINITELY demands a part 2 at the very least. It raises much more questions than it answers.
You pronounced Helsinki perfectly !
I am tri racial, my grandmother comes from an Indian temple built by a Shiva avatar in Thailand, originally known as Vimana Pura(Sanskrit), modern day Phi Mai, Thailand. Also I'm Irish, black Irish and Sicilian. This is what led me to watch your videos and learn my roots.
Keep up the good work, Masaman. You're doing Gods work and telling his story, thank you for inspiring me to learn about my ancestry and history. You have always been my favorite TH-cam channel.
@EUROPEAN BULL It's an expression in Ireland. Look it up and read a little about it.. you'll be surprised, it's interesting.
My Russian friend’s dna was 67% Scandinavian 31% Finland/Russia 2% native siberian.
Dont see that being possible without him actly having a purely Scandanavian parenr. Pure cap. Or the DNA test was pure cap.
The extensive analysis of the Russian pool of paternal lines presented here establishes the following general features: (1) the insignificance of the eastern gene flow, emphasized by the absence of typical haplogroups of Eastern and Central Asia; (2) well-pronounced gradients from north to south of specific haplogroups in the historical Russian region; (3) the division of its general diversity into northern and central-southern populations; (4) the proximity of the northern populations to the north-eastern and eastern non-Slavic populations, which implies extensive assimilation or even a direct change in the language; Russian Russians (5) lower Y-chromosomal variations throughout central-southern historical Russia compared to high variations among northern Russians; (6) proximity, the achievement of a virtual coincidence in the MDS plot, in the Y-chromosomal variation between central-southern Russians with Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles; and (7) this significant intra-ethnic differentiation of the North Russian population is the only exception to the rule found; in the broader European context, interethnic (mainly linguistic) differences strongly prevail.
Russian Russians ' Y-chromosome pool in their historical settlement zone is mainly a composite composite of their Proto-Slavic heritage and, in particular, in the Russian North, an extensive admixture with Finno-Ugric speakers. This bipartite scenario of the main sources of origin of modern ethnic Russians is supported by the analysis of classical markers presented here and can be used as a working hypothesis for a better understanding of the genetic diversity and demographic history of Eurasian populations. Its patrilineal aspect can be further refined by a detailed study of STR variations in phylogenetic biliallelic haplogroups, although new informative SNPs should be identified for deeper progress, in particular, given that only a small part of the Y chromosome has been studied so far for markers potentially informative for phylogeographic research3.
www.cell.com/fulltext/S0002-9297%2807%2900025-0
That's some good genetics right there
@@alekshukhevych2644 people don’t get that DNA is older then ethnic groups, nothern Euroean dna simply shows as Scandinavians, despite it can be more annicet. High % of fair hair and light eyes among Russians probably do include some Scandinavian going on. Afrer all Vikings founded Russia.
@@alekshukhevych2644 My grandma thought she was pure Finnish. My DNA tells me her father was pure Russian!
"That we just love to hate" uhmmm speak for yourself
I don't get it. WTFs he talking about lol.
@@chrishayes5755 western media loves to use Russians for the bad guys
@@Ares_gaming_117 both the west and Russia are bad 🤷🏻♂️
@@ahmadfrhan5265 and middle east
He doesn't mean it. It's a stereotype for Westerners to dislike Russia. But I'm from the west and I love Russia!
Great video. The Russian era that most interests me is that of the time of the Kievan Rus!
@Artoria Pendragon How come?
@@Ciderchai There was no RuSSia until 1721 when a Tsar decided to rebrand Muscovy to justify military occupation of Rus (Ukraine and Belarus). You can check old maps issued both inside and outside Muscovy if you don't believe.
There was no such nation as RuSSians until Bolsheviks. From 1721 until 1920s they were branded as Velikorosy, before 1721 they called themselves Muscovites, before the Horde those tribes were called Merya, Moksha, Mari, Tatars, etc. They had nothing to do with Medieval Rus'. On the contrary - they were the most loyal and brutal tribute collectors for the Golden Horde.
Artoria Pendragon Kievan Rus is a made up historical term coined by Russian historians in the 18th century. It simply means “Ancient Russian State with the capital in Kiev” And Kievan Rus is the early history of modern Russia. But imbecile trolls like you might say otherwise ;)
@@ДорианГрей-ъ4ш did you actually learn history man? Novgorod and Kyiv were the biggest centers of Rus for hundreds of years. Moscow only rose to prominence during the Horde, before that they weren't significant. Granted, the fact that they did rise to power is amazing given the unfortunate location, but Moscow wasn't in the picture for the beginning, nor was it 100% slav place. Again, not being 100% slav isn't something bad.
Also, quick note, saying "Ancient Russian state" is a bit disingenuous. The majority of people in Ukraine, Belarus, and from what I can tell Russia called themselves Rus' or Rusyni up to 19th century. Not Russians. The place was referred to as Ruthenia on the maps.
Russia has a relation to Old Rus'(Ruthenia) as Romania has to Rome. ;-)
Kossacs were not only from Ukraine, they were peasants who fled away from their landlords from places which now are Russia and Ukraine(maybe also from Belarus, but I don't know).
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
A healer and was almost immortal.
He could preach the bible like a preacher, full of ecstasy and fire
@@alex-fs9yt stfu
and: but he was also the kind of teacher, Women would desire
Ra Ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone ra ra Rasputin Russia’s greatest love machine
Your videos are some of the most informative on the web. Thank you so much
I like your fairly neutral presentation of Information. Your sincere effort is noticeable. As I have some Russian and Cossack ancestry myself, I would like to add some detail: Cossacks were an ethnically unhomogenous group, with many partially unrelated subgroups, some from today’s Central Russia, others from today’s Central Ukraine, others from various turcic tribes. There were individuals from Caucasus too. Also would have liked to hear more about the Finno-Ugric tribes, that were allied with Slavic tribes. Both formed the Rus.
Cossacks were known as warriors, they were in battles for payment to, and they were horrible and very dangerous toward people in the time of wars. They were present in Balkan wars to so this is what they say about.
VESNA 1111 The word Cossack comes from Irano-Scythian people in the first Millenia, that lived in the steppes of today‘s Southern Russia. It meant „free people“ or „ free man“. Later the turcic tribes from the East of Eurasia came, turcified the Scyths, and the Rus developped in what is today Ukraine, Belorus and part of European‘s Russia. Already at that time part of Southern Slavic tribes had mixed with Scythians. Additionally at the border of the Rus to the steppe land, Rus people mixed with parts of turcic tribes, that had asked to get permission to settle on Rus land and fight on the Rus side, ad they had pressure from the East from further incoming new turcic tribes. Those are the precursors of Cossack. This process actually proceeded actually until few centuries ago. Cossack is a mix of various people. There never has bern an ethical, religious, or political unity amongst the various Cossack groups. Further groups that led to the admixture were runaway Rus ( and successor state) peasants, refugees from the many wars in the Caucasus in the centuries before the state Russia was present there. Some groups were deliberately settled by the Russian Czar, e.g. part of Don Cossacks were Tatarian soldiers that were settled at the Don by Czar Iwan Grosny, the Terrk Cossacks came from Rjasan region and were settled by another czar ( including their families). Most cossacks never ever received any payment, as no state could have had such huge finances. Cossacks were warriors and had a civil profession at the same time, ad they had to support themselves, as they wanted to remain free people. Free from the European Christian feudal system, and free from the muslim khanates and its slave hunters. As beeing in a sandwich position without any natural protection Cossacks never have been a homogeneous group. Sometimes they fought against the Czar, sometimes for. Within a group they are very cooperation oriented, loyal. As an individual you don’t survive, or you get enslaved. Within their families they are warm and caring. Also they have strong spirits. Within my whole family I don’t know drug addicts, no degenerates, noone beats their wife. Also respect man fight against each other, not against weak people. Respect for nature and god is important. My family treats animals well. All born after WW2 don‘t self-identify as Cossacks anymore. Our steppe culture , language has been as such extinguished. But our spirit is alive. Good bye!
Not quite true about the Rus. They did form the Duchy of Moscow together as far as I understand. The word Rus is mostly a term for eastern slavs and their rulers who originally came from Nordic countries. I think "rus" means something like "to row" in Swedish and it's wildly speculated that the first slavic rulers in Novgorod and Kyiv were Swedish sailors/traders/raiders.
So while technically Moscow was a part of the "Rus," Rus itself started long before the Duchy of Moscow and it wasn't with the help of Finno-Ugric tribes. They did have part in forming Moscow, I believe.
As for the larger eastern slavs, you may be confusing Finno-Ugric people with Balts. Ukrainians and Belarus (who referred to themselves as Rus or Rusyni up to 19th century) did share the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the Balts.
@@a.e.2990 great bit of history man, thx. Was always interested in the history of Cossacks but never found a good source on it.
Hyperborean Colonialism Don’t tell me my family history. We even had a kind of Ukrainian sounding plus turcic mix language, names and features. There were several turcic subgroups joining the Rus and post Rus people. Stop your nationalistic bullshit of stupidity. Even if some Russians ( since 2 generations my family members of Cossack origin identify as such) talk sometimes about everything what comes into their head ( including philosophy and bullshit;)), they aren’t segregation-rassistic like some other groups. Regarding ethnicity, identity they have a very fluent understanding. That happens when you live inmidst of a huge continent mainly on plane land and amongst many tribes/ethnicities. There is a constant coming and going. A certain flexibility or tolerance is a natural adaptation.
Great!
My mum is Russian and her DNA says 15% Finnish/Finno-Ugric on average, depending on the DNA-site. Her mother is from Udmurtia. Really interesting to find that, because her family considers itself 100% Russian.
Udmurtia is not native Russia territory as you probably know.
@@t.on.y yeah I know that. But for example in my grandma's little home town the Udmurts are 3% of the population, there are even more Tatars, the vast majority are Russians. And before Russia this area was controlled by the likes of the Kazan Khanate and the Volga Bulgars. So the Udmurts might not be native to that particular area as well, only in certain parts of nowadays Udmurtia.
@@alexanders8519 in the Soviet Union, you obligatorilly had to indicate your nationality in identity documents. people deliberately hid their origins in order to avoid discrimination, and identified themselves as Russians. so there are officially many more "Russians" nowadays than there actually are.
Heh interesting there, I am just under half Russian from my Mother's side, and few years back genetic test came back with about 3% finnish, and like 1% Yakut. Thought that was pretty interesting.
@@t.on.y yes but it doesn't mean that there are ethnic russians at this territory.
In the Volga region, there were also those Magyars who didn´t settle in the Carpathian Basin and were strong enough to fend off the first Mongol attacks. They lived next to the Bashkirs or were possibly identic with them.
Very good presentation and research
Video title: ETHNIC origins of the Russians
The video: Procedes to talk about every ethnic minority living in Russia,but the ETHNIC Russians.
Nice one.
My ancestry is a Central/Eastern European fusion and my haplogroup according to a DNA test is R1A which is associated with Proto Indo-Europeans
ARYAN ANCESTRY
Popek Misak yes
Can you recommend a good DNA test ?
Josh Foreman I did both ancestry and 23 and me
I visited St Petersburg in 2019 and it was really nice
Very aesthetic city, would be great in a good country
@@rueisblue
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Built at the expense of the deaths of 100,000 Ukrainian peasants.
I live here. You haven't seen the worst parts of it, probably, lucky you 😆😆😆😆
@@CrazyLeiFeng mostly Finnish and Russian peasants
Slavic origin with Germanic and Baltic influences
Sword And the racists have arrived.
@@cosmicwakes6443 wut?
I would argue that Baltic and Finnic influences are far greater in Russians than any Germanic one.
@@Vitalis94 but the fact is that before the ancencion of slavic tribes in 5th century german people were dominant on the core slavic lands. Read about Gothic people and Chernyakhivska archeological culture.
@Ian Miles You could find some traces of Norsmen may be only in nobility, which size comparing to the general populace was... not significant.
Why no talk on the Khazarians?
Ethnic Russians are overwhelmingly Slavic in terms of genetic origin, incidentally, just like confirmed, historical Rurikids like Glev Sviatoslavich, Yaroslav Osmomysl, and Iziaslav Ingvarevich, courtesy of the exemplary study of the Population genomics of the "Viking World", by Ashot Margaryan, its findings have decisively refuted the Normanist theory of the origin of the Rurikids.
Russia hates the Norman theory but the evidence for it is strong. Even in Scandanavian manuscripts, let alone Rus manuscripts which talk about it directly.
@@alekshukhevych2644 The thing is, the evidence you speak of refers to a presence of Norsemen in Russia as the retinue of the Rus', but not as the Rus' themselves, the only exception to that is The Legend of the Invitation/Arrival, but that isn't even a historical event, but a mere legend, or at best, a semi-mythological recollection of events, whereas the Rus-Byzantine treaties and entire parts of the Primary Chronicle group the Rus' with the Slavs while distancing the Varangians from both and treating them as a third, unrelated entity, or outright state that the Rus' were originally Slavs, and strictly worshiped Slavic gods as early as Oleg, which rules out the argument of "Slavicization".
@@numenoreaneternity6682 Its quite obvious the Rus were Scandanavians. Where do you think the names Igor and Oleg come from? Ingvar and Helge. You can literally find things like " So Yaroslav went over to his Kin in Sweden for suppport". I know how much Russians dont like this, but its true and a fact at this point.
@@alekshukhevych2644 The problem is that the Old Norse versions of their names appear only a few centuries later, whereas the Slavic forms of their names are the only ones present in the Primary Chronicle and the Rus-Byzantine treaties, and Yaroslav's "Swedish relatives" are those by marriage, not blood, specifically the family of his wife Ingegerd of Sweden.
And since we're on the matter, the most immediate and intimate reference to the origin of the Rurikids is the following paragraph, found on page 64: "Since Paul is the teacher of the
Slavic race, from which we Russians too are sprung, even so, the Apostle Paul is the teacher of us Russians, for he preached to the Slavic nation, and appointed Andronicus as Bishop and successor to himself among them. But the Slavs and the Russes are one people, for it is because of
the Varangians that the latter became known as Rus', though originally they were Slavs. While some Slavs were termed Polyanians, their speech was still Slavic, for they were known as Polyanians (29) because they lived in the fields. But they had the same Slavic language."- At best, the Normanist theory can state that the Rus', who were originally Slavic, were Normanized by the Varangians, whom this paragraph treats as a separated and alien entity, compared to other Slavs. And besides, we now have aDNA and Y-DNA confirmation that the original paternal Rurikids didn't just carry Slavic DNA, but have had minimal Germanic aDNA.
@@alekshukhevych2644 wtf, groups living closely by share some names???? no fucking way, they must be the same ppl all together
There's an OCA church I go to somewhat regularly, one of the church attendance I know is an 80 year old man named Larz who's half Russian-Aleutian by his mother's side and half Norwegian by his father's side. He's hard to understand because of his slow way of talking, but if you can understand him, he tells the most amazing stories about growing up in Alaska.
The people one can meet is incredible.
Record his stories by your mobile phone
Don Cossacks here, I would actually disagree with you on saying that Cossacks are not an ethnic group. Cossacks have many genetic commonalities, Zaporthian Cossacks and Terek Cossacks and Don Cossacks have allot of their origins rooted in Circassian and Ossetian admixture with local Russian tribes (however Muslim Circassians settled in the Don river). As for Siberian Cossacks, they were brought from the Don along with their leader Ermak Timofeyev who was a Don Cossack. Each Cossack host did not let foreigners, even regular Russians, penetrate their genetic line somewhere in the 1700s because after the Don Cossacks held 3 large rebellions so the Tsar decided to send the Don Cossacks a referendum with a list of rules to follow if they wanted to keep their freedom, a few of them are that the Ataman was to be elected by the tsar, marriages were to happen in churches and most importantly was one outlining how every Don Cossack Male had to serve 20-30 years in military. Keeping freedom was important, it meant that they get to have their own ranking, election system, avoid taxes, enjoy their own land and culture, the reason I mention this is that if any person tried to enter their land to avoid taxes and shit, they would be instantaneously fucking killed or chased back to Moscow because we were not going to serve 20 years in military so some guy who we do not know can just avoid taxes. This all meant that tradition, language and genetics were all very well preserved for the Cossacks and even Anatole Klyosov mentioned this in a podcast talking about how these Cossacks had almost 100% genetic mutations similar to eachother
Cossaks didn't consider themselves Muscovite and proclaimed independence in 1918. That's why Muscovites mostly exterminated them between 1918 and 1950.
@@CrazyLeiFeng But there is no doubt that the Russian Cossacks are not Ukrainians.
Cossacks did not "primarily came from Ukraine". Most of them already existed on the territory of Novgorod and Moscow principalities and then Russian Tsardom. And i'm not talking only about Don Cossacks, Terek Cossacks, Kuban Cossacks, Volga Cossacks and Yaik (Ural) Cossacks. I'm talking about many earlier groups:
Hoper Cossacks (14th - 16th centuries) - residents of the medieval Cossack state Chervlenny Yar (13th - 14th centuries, the territory of modern Saratov and Penza region of Russia) and descendants of the proto-Cossack tribes of brodniks and chigs (12th - 13th cent.).
Hlynov (modern day Kirov, Russia) Cossacks or Vytka Cossacks (15th - 16th cent.) - descendants of Novgorod's ushkuyniks (11th - 15th cent.) - river pirates and merchants.
Sevruki (15th - 17th cent.) - descendants of Severians (8th - 11th cent.) ancient East Slavic tribe.
Meshcherian Cossacks or Meshcherians or Meshcherian Tatars (15th -16th cent.) - It was a regular army (mostly muslims) of the Kasimov “kings” and “princes” (Tatar khans) who, for various reasons, emigrated to Russia and since the middle of the 15th century served the Moscow Grand Dukes, and then the Tsars. They originally lived in the forest-steppe and steppe of the historical region of Meshchera, located in the modern - northern and eastern parts of the Tula region, southeastern parts of Moscow region, in Ryazan region, in the south of Vladimir region, in the north of the Tambov region, Penza regions and further, to the Middle Volga region.
And just a little about Yik (Ural) Cossacks - they although speaking Russian and identifying themselves as being of primarily Russian ancestry also incorporated many Tatars into their ranks. Some of these Tatars called themselves Bulgarians of Khazar origin, and the first Yaik Cossacks, including these Tatars and Russians, already existed on Ural (Yaik) river by the end of 14th century.Also these Tatars might be both Chuvash people and Meshcherians, the latter had not only Muslims and Jews, but Christians among them to facilitate their merge with Russians. Later, after the defeat of the Nogai horde a lot of Nogais joined Yaik Cossacks.
And where are the Ukrainians here, which in that time just begining germinate as a separate nation within
the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Masaman knows nothing about it...
@@MemoryOfTheAncestors Cossacks are neither Russians nor Ukrainians. They are Cossacks.
@Маша Паракина Awesome to see how we are coming together as one people!
Greetings from Poland my Slavic friends.
Moskale to nie Slowianie, oni tylko rozmawiaja w dialekcie starobulgarskiego.
@@CrazyLeiFeng Russians are Slavs according to every genetical study, and are closely related to Ukrainians, Poles, Slovaks and Byelorussians. Stop spreading lies.
Depends which Russians you test tbh. But truth be told most slavic Russians are actly in roots Ukrainian or Belarusian or even Polish. The amount of Russians that have Ukrainian last names baffles me.
love this channel
Russians (in the western part are more ethnic) can be said to be quite European in appearance, but northern Russia by origin is completely separate from the Russian populations below.
Can be said quite…. Racist u r:)
Russians are mongoloid, they aren't white european
Russians in Nothern Russia took genetics from the Baltic people and Finns thats why they look a little bit different from the rest of the Russians in the European part of Russia. Beyond the Ural, you will find a lot of non-Russians or people who mixed together
Mother Russia, love their music and culture. Wide is my motherland
You look sexy.
I thought North Korea was your motherland???
LONG LIVE THE MOTHER LAND RUSSIAN
Dear leader!
Hail Supreme Comrade! We are always elated to hear your magnificent words.
Can you do a video on the Iranian tribes such as the Scythians,Sakas,Persians,Alans and Sarmatians.
Много неточностей и откровенной лжи. Во первых, во времена монгольского ига никакой "страны" не было, была раздробленная Русь и далеко не все княжества были под иго, например монголы так и не дошли до Новгорода. Во вторых, казаки не украинцы. Казаки - это некое сословие, которое жило вольно со своим образом жизни. Были запорожские казаки и донские казаки, это разные казаки и именно донские казаки считали себя русскими казаками (Это я как потомок донских казаков рассказываю). В третьих, сравнение дикого запада в Америке и восточной части России тупое, потому-что русские при осваивании востока не устраивали геноцид коренных народов и до сих пор каждый округ и область в России называется в честь коренного народа проживающего на это земле
монголы до новгорода не дошли, но дань он какое-то время платил.
ну и в америке коренные народы еще сами загеноцидились об евроазиатские болезни, у сибирских племен я думаю уже был контакт с всеми этими болезнями, поэтому там больше половины от них не сдохло просто от завезенных болезней. Ну и места полно, даже если геноцид был - всегда был лес, а в случае юга и горы, куда они могли сваливать хоть до конца времен
Донцы русские казаки? Учитывая шовинистическое отношение донцев к великоросам и малоросам (в том числе другим казакам) довольно спорное мнение...
The author wants to say that Russians are a mixture of Caucasians and Siberian aborigines? What nonsense!
@Masaman Cossacks did not "primarily came from Ukraine". Most of them already existed on the territory of Novgorod and Moscow principalities and then Russian Tsardom. And i'm not talking only about Don Cossacks, Terek Cossacks, Kuban Cossacks, Volga Cossacks and Yaik (Ural) Cossacks. I'm talking about many earlier groups:
Hoper Cossacks (14th - 16th centuries) - residents of the medieval Cossack state Chervlenny Yar (13th - 14th centuries, the territory of modern Saratov and Penza region of Russia) and descendants of the proto-Cossack tribes of brodniks and chigs (12th - 13th cent.).
Hlynov (modern day Kirov, Russia) Cossacks or Vytka Cossacks (15th - 16th cent.) - descendants of Novgorod's ushkuyniks (11th - 15th cent.) - river pirates and merchants.
Sevruki (15th - 17th cent.) - descendants of Severians (8th - 11th cent.) ancient East Slavic tribe.
Meshcherian Cossacks or Meshcherians or Meshcherian Tatars (15th -16th cent.) - It was a regular army (mostly muslims) of the Kasimov “kings” and “princes” (Tatar khans) who, for various reasons, emigrated to Russia and since the middle of the 15th century served the Moscow Grand Dukes, and then the Tsars. They originally lived in the forest-steppe and steppe of the historical region of Meshchera, located in the modern - northern and eastern parts of the Tula region, southeastern parts of Moscow region, in Ryazan region, in the south of Vladimir region, in the north of the Tambov region, Penza regions and further, to the Middle Volga region.
And just a little about Yik (Ural) Cossacks - they although speaking Russian and identifying themselves as being of primarily Russian ancestry also incorporated many Tatars into their ranks. Some of these Tatars called themselves Bulgarians of Khazar origin, and the first Yaik Cossacks, including these Tatars and Russians, already existed on Ural (Yaik) river by the end of 14th century.Also these Tatars might be both Chuvash people and Meshcherians, the latter had not only Muslims and Jews, but Christians among them to facilitate their merge with Russians. Later, after the defeat of the Nogai horde a lot of Nogais joined Yaik Cossacks.
And where are the Ukrainians here, which in that time just begining germinate as a separate nation within
the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
My ancestors was Ural Cossacks and I am very offended by your incorrect understanding of the history of the Russian Cossacks.
Just read about it and make another video especial about Cossacks origin.
Нормально написал
Cossacks were a heritage of Orda(Tartar Imperia), the first cossacks were known at first part 15 age in Slavic lands, in Cherkasy (Ukraine) and Ryazan (Russia).
I love Russia and Russian people. I love the history of Russia and its culture but the only thing I hate is Bolschevism and Marxism and their appearance in Russia.
Same here!
But thanks to communism, we sent the first man, the first satellite, the first planet rover, the first telescope into space, built the first nuclear station and much more. Do you think that communism ruined our nation?
Кристина Волкова yes......
Кристина Волкова Yes ofcourse, it ruined your Nation completely. Don’t forget, that the inventions you are talking about didn’t happen under communist regime or whosoever. After WW2, there were too many people, who migrated from , Western, Central Europe and Eastern Europe to Russia. It is only because of these creative people, who were Aryans and because of the the inventions of these people, Soviet Union became strong. In America, the same incident took place, where huge German migrations started and the Americans provided the Citizenship to those creative scientist, who were Germans or in other words, Aryans. This is our misfortune, that people can’t see the truth, where only a group of creative people sows the seed of a gigantic work but some other unscrupulous people gets the benefits pr rather exploits it. The Comminists government killed so many innocent Russians just to seize the power over this great people. The people play an integral role in a society, not any government. And the fact is that, one day Communism and Marxism will corrode whole of humanity from its destructive intellectual acid.
@@Victoria44I77 All of that at the cost of millions of people, living under a non-functional economical system that brought the state to ruin.
What if the revolution failed? Had Russia become democratic and capitalistic, would they accomplish as much?
Been waiting for this video
Fascinating. You do amazing work. This video could be 5 times longer. You just glossed over the key points. A more detailed video would be appreciated.
Do a shit tone more work, for free, because I want you to.
Ok Drexel, get to making that video then......
10:25 Armenians and Azeris are not caucasians, my friend. Armenians are indo-europeans and azeris are turks. Do your homework properly next time.
Arent Caucasians indo europeans? They are from the caucus region for crying out loud
@@botswanainsight3804 No, my friend, they are not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibero-Caucasian_languages
They are Caucasians in geographical, or "racial"? sense, rather than linguistic or cultural.
Though one could argue there is some kind of cultural Caucasian continuum.
@@Vitalis94 Well, he didn't use it as a racial term, as he listed other european groups before that, like germans, ashkenazi jews, romani, etc. Not in geographical, as almost all groups living in Russia can be found in the caucasus. Not cultural, as these people's cultures are very different.
Alpa Chino
, Armenians and Azeris belong to Balkan-Caucasian race (i'm not sure how to translate it into English correctly).
Another awesome vid Mason!!! thanks!!!
*_EVERY RUSSIAN CAN TRACE THEIR LINEAGE TO A SMALL TOWN IN NORTHWESTERN RUSSIA CALLED "BLYAT"._*
*_WHERE ALL THE PEOPLE WERE LITERAL POTATOS_*
*_WITH STRIPED PANTS_*
Б Л Я Т Ь ! 😂
You skipped over Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which history pretty much shaped current Russia and east Slavs.
GDL were Slavs. Muscovy ("RuSSia") were NOT.
@@CrazyLeiFeng Great Lithuania was far from only Slavic. Lithuania Proper was the most densely populated area along with the capital of the state - Vilnius. Official records began in 17th century it was even more Lithuanian in Middle Ages. Former lands of Kyivan Rus were recovering from Mongol devastation. Lithuanian troop crews were sent deep in territories of Great Lithuania even along the Black Sea as support against Tatars. These crews stationed in Slavic lands converted from Paganism to Catholicism by the order of Grand Duke Jogaila.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rzeczpospolita_Obojga_Narod%C3%B3w#/media/Plik:The_density_of_the_urban_network_per_voivodeship_of_Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth_ca._1650.PNG
@@CrazyLeiFeng Bullshit. GDL had a large Slavic component but it was definitely not just Slavic and yes, Russia is Slavic.
OP never states that GDL was Slavic, just that it shaped East Slavic history and culture.
@@CrazyLeiFeng
You are brainwashed
The R1a maps were horrible lol especially the accuracy in ex-Yugslavia and the Balkans.
Your thumbnails are really good, I love them
Amazing video, well done well done. Subscribed.
81% of Russia is ethnically Russian, and about 90-95% is white, considering when you add other white ethnic groups such as Ukrainians, Belarusians, Mari, fino-urgic peoples, etc.
Term "white" doesn't really apply to Russia and most of Eastern Europe, most people (aside from neo nazis) don't see themselves as white, that's purely American thing.
Were not white dude only people that are white are north west europeans we share skin thats it are koreans white to?
@@Vitalis94 You are right. It used to be the case in Central and Eastern Europe but the 21st century Muscovites started to call the immigrants from the Caucus and Central Asia as "blacks" (ch'ornye).
@@CrazyLeiFeng Even though they aren't even remotely black.
@@Vitalis94 hell, this word... I think Russians have never seen people with black skin in their lives, so for them all the people from the southern republics are black-skinned
Ah the Red Alert 3 Theme. I see you are a man of culture.
‘ love to hate ‘ !? What a typically, disappointedly piece of mainstream drivel that I’m appalled to hear you line up to join in contributing to the BBC, Fox News, etc. broken record echo chamber.
‘ Love to hate ‘ !? Do you suppose for a moment that Americans are viewed with much more liking than loathing, detestation, and even sheer hatred across enormous swathes of her globe ? The ignorance, presumptuousness, sheer bumbling and offensive cluelessness of , sadly, denizens of the US easily surpasses any offence caused by Russians. Wars, occupations, base establishment, intimidation’s, boorish bullying from Venezuela to Lebanon,...Russian-aligned ? Hardly worthy of a tenable claim..
@@albertarthurparsnips5141 ....yeah totally
Russian true DNA : 50% Bear, 20% Siberian Tiger, 5 % Leopard ( Irbis&Amur), 15% Tundra Wolf, 10% Others...
No. 100% Mongols.
@@Tim76ful comedian
@@Tim76ful down
Rhodium. Thank you so much for making me laugh before going to bed. Your
description is so great that I am copying it. Best wishes from an American
in New York.
*Everybody knows that re russians come from Jamaica*
I been waiting for this one foreverrr
Well, Russians really have good immunity and genetics. I usually start to get sick immediately when the temperature drops and I can not imagine how Russians live in such a cold climate for centuries and do not get sick. That's cool. All these northern Asians living in Russia are also incredibly hardy and strong.
Our ancestors was settled here more than 1000 years ago, thats the reason.
Personally I have light flu 1-2 times per year, but my immunity weakened by nicotine (I am hard smoker), alcohol and harmful work ( I am grinder).
@coronavirus is fake if its such a fraud then go to a crowded area and see how that works for you.
Dress properly. Wear scarf and breath through it, that would keep your lungs moisturised, which is important in cold weather.
@Zahin Shahazad Lol, true. I'm a mix of russian/ukrainian and polish (as you can see by my last name) and I prefer cold weather to hot one, +15/+20C (~ 59/68F) is a perfect range for me. When it's +30/+35 (86/95) outside - for me it feels like I'm being fried in the oven.
@Carpe Diem S. Petersburg isn't best place for this.
Once in my school times in Minnesota. I saw the ethnic map of the Russian Empire. It was more than 180 nationalities. After Russian revolution only half of them was recognised. Some nations left - like Polish, Finns, etc. Some nations in Stalin times was mixed like Tatars and Bashkirs, many North Western nations. Some of them was erased from history books like Don cossack's. But modern Russia was built after 1000 years by Slavs, Norseman, Byzantine, Golden Horde Nobels, Eastern Europeans, Western Europeans (mostly Germans), Greeks from Ottoman Empire, Siberians, Caucasians.
descendantTerribleByzantinesuccessorNobelsthousandsimmigrantsEasternWe all Russians now.
Thank you so much for doing a video about Russian ethnicity. I am myself a Siberian Russian. My ancestors were from Southern European Russia from Volga and Don river basin regions, but then in late XIX-early XX century they moved to South-Western Siberia, an Ob' river basin region. A resettling program was organized at this time (mainly 1900-s) for a lot of peasants who were liberated after 1861, and much of land was offered to them in Siberia, although far less than a half of Siberian land was any suitable for agriculturing due to climate.
@@sara_s_ and you are probably a Papuan from Australia. Siberia is still almost not inhabited by people - the indigenous inhabitants there are only wolves.
Very nice video, just keep doing what you are best in 😀
meaningless video, the title of which doesn’t match the content. the video shows many ethnicities, but not Russians
I love your videos, very informative, the origins of all ethnicities to me are all fascinating
Belarus and Ukraine combined are over 50 million eastern Slavs, while Slavic Russia is 100 million people.
RuSSians speak a dialect of Old Bulgarian but they have very little Slavic blood.
For many years, I've been fascinated by Beringia, and the migration of Siberian people across the Land Bridge during the Ice Ages. And I have a love for the Natives in Siberia. Particularly fascinated by the Chukchi; the Kolyak, and the Samoyed.
My sisters and I all have triangular teeth and our dentist thought we might be part Native American Indian, whereas Roberta Estes confirmed it is probably our Finnish/Russian ancestry. We have zero American Indian LOL
Actually Russians has strong Dnieper-Baltic and Finno-Ugric ancestry from peoples like Golyad` and Merya. Of course they are still be mostly slavic (except for Pomors), but they arent very close to be almost pure-blooded slavic.
Let me guess.. you are ukranian nationalist right.... Finno ugric blood is less than 10%. east asian 1-3% the rest is slavic
@@probus6678 No, you are wrong ) I am Russian nationalist.
And by the way: I didn`t say that FU-ancestry in Russians is more than 10%. The rest is slavic and baltic (~20%)
@@rincewindthewizhard2363 The extensive analysis of the Russian pool of paternal lines presented here establishes the following general features: (1) the insignificance of the eastern gene flow, emphasized by the absence of typical haplogroups of Eastern and Central Asia; (2) well-pronounced gradients from north to south of specific haplogroups in the historical Russian region; (3) the division of its general diversity into northern and central-southern populations; (4) the proximity of the northern populations to the north-eastern and eastern non-Slavic populations, which implies extensive assimilation or even a direct change in the language; Russian Russians (5) lower Y-chromosomal variations throughout central-southern historical Russia compared to high variations among northern Russians; (6) proximity, the achievement of a virtual coincidence in the MDS plot, in the Y-chromosomal variation between central-southern Russians with Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles; and (7) this significant intra-ethnic differentiation of the North Russian population is the only exception to the rule found; in the broader European context, interethnic (mainly linguistic) differences strongly prevail.
Russian Russians ' Y-chromosome pool in their historical settlement zone is mainly a composite composite of their Proto-Slavic heritage and, in particular, in the Russian North, an extensive admixture with Finno-Ugric speakers. This bipartite scenario of the main sources of origin of modern ethnic Russians is supported by the analysis of classical markers presented here and can be used as a working hypothesis for a better understanding of the genetic diversity and demographic history of Eurasian populations. Its patrilineal aspect can be further refined by a detailed study of STR variations in phylogenetic biliallelic haplogroups, although new informative SNPs should be identified for deeper progress, in particular, given that only a small part of the Y chromosome has been studied so far for markers potentially informative for phylogeographic research3.
www.cell.com/fulltext/S0002-9297%2807%2900025-0
There are no pure slavs. Predecessors of Poles assimilated what was left from eastern germanic tribes, Balkan Slavs assimilated Trakowie and Illyrians
pure blooded slavs dont exist
Great video! Love my country!
Could you do a video on the Russian conquest as they moved east through Siberia? Were there battles, massacres, relocations? I don't know much about it and I think it would be interesting.
Both the battles, massacres and relocations happened, it's indeed a fascinating history.
You know, you could read about it yourself, you know:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_conquest_of_Siberia
Angelo Greco: I think you are at the wrong channel for that. This channel focuses on genetics and ethnics based approach to antropology in an historic context, but doesn't really discuss specific historic events and personalities.
Nobody really gives a shit about those. Stalin massacred tens of millions but nobody cares.
@B A why you try to counter with another example? Acknowledge siberian crimes.
You should make a video about the Pomors & the other Russian sub ethnicities. I really have no idea & would like to know. You could include the Ruthenians (are they ancient Ukrainians, Belarussians or just a regional group in between?).
great culture, beautiful land.
Very true. I love the Slavic people, I love Russia! I don't know why but I've always had a fascination for the Slavic people. As a Western citizen they seem like our people but more united and proud.
facinating, as always. g5
Russians are east slavic ethnic group
Sure in Russia live many nations, but ethnic Russians are the most significant population of the country about 80% and they are slavs
You show many indigenous people of caucasus and Siberia like they all are Russians and like Russian ethnicity not exist, but they are not Russians by ethnic, like gypsies in Romania are not Romanians, they sure Russians by country and so on, but there are the differences. With Respect!
Hi masaman, i practice Jainism as my religion, could you make a video on religion of Jainism, originating in india and over 3000years old
@Pichkalu Pappita so you think Jainism is atheist, I may clear your doubt , it's not atheist in any sense and have gods of their own mister
I am half slavic Russian and half germanic German and i love both countries. Just name one country with 200 peoples who survived till today! Russia is truly multicultural. Greetings to all Russian peoples.
I married a Russian who basically told me the same things about Russians. What was not said was that many times, Russians were forced relocated to other parts of Russians by both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Example is that my wife's grandparents were relocated from the Ukraine and Krasnodar to Moscow by Stalin.
In late empire period most of Russians moved by their own will, because there was lots of unused land that was free for growing wheat. At those time we had more freedom than in USSR.
@@t.on.y Ну да, ссылка крестьянина в качестве наказания - абсолютно добровольный переезд. Перед тем, как хрустеть булкой, почитайте хотя бы имперские законы.
@@Pangolin_6483 >>>"In late empire period"
Not just ethnic Russians either. That's why some cities even in Siberia have sizable Armenian populations
@@t.on.y It's a shame Communism took over the common sense of socialism, for the lesserment of the human race. Socialism without authoritarianism is freer than the USA or the USSR or the Empire of the Tsar. Perhaps these disasters could lead us to conclude we should at least give it a try.
alans did not disappear, ossetians are some of of their descendants hens Alan being one of the most popular ossetic names
There are many ethnic groups in Russia as there are in the United States. Consider the Hispanics, American Indians the Inuit the Aleutians, and the Black Americans that came from various parts of Africa.
yes but in America they went there on their own and in russia they were forced under their rule :(
@@hussar843 And in the USA it is the same, even worse. Black people were brought there as slaves and the indigenous people of America have lost their culture due to the oppression and forced asylum of the Europeans. Although there is sometimes racism from Slavic Russians, the indigenous people have more freedom and have been able to keep their identity.
greetings from Russia Siberia Tyumen;)
You didn't show the Russians.
Very interesting. I like their cameras and watches.
digest any? :D
Do you happen to know how asian the Russians are in the eastern part? or is the intermixing between ethnic groups not that common there?
Depends on the area, generally urban Russian are mostly purely of ethnic Russian descent, in the rural areas the intermixing was more prevalent.
@@Vitalis94 Ohh, interesting. So what about Wladiwostok? it is urban but is pretty close to china?
@@tsukuyomi2522 Most of people there are ethnic Russians, look like ordinary Russians found in Europe, but there are also some Chinese present. Not really mixed as of yet, maybe in the future?
@@Vitalis94
Recent mixing is odd.
My mother is
Afghani and father is Russian who claims cossack Ancestry dont know much of cossacks in terms of genetics,culture,and way of life.
I believe that I'm Slavic- Afghani-Turk.
@@zamiraivano7976 A friend of mine is Korean/ Uzbek, but her family has now lived for generations in Kazakhstan. but now she is living in korea.
I shared your great job. In shared video in comments I added photos from Russian Museum.
Correction The First State was Novgorod Rus in fact they are the one who ordered to Build Kiev And Rurik was First Varangian chieftain Who build First town state of Novgorod
Kiev was estabilished before the Varangians came to the area, though.
Novgorod was based at 11 age only. Rus' was called only lands with cities Kyev, Pereyaslav, Chernigov before 14 age.
@@petosiris173 And Befor Rus it was Gordarika Land of towns in old russian/slavic AND no Novgorod Russ Was Before Kiev Russ it's just separation of time based on Capital City
(dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/ruwiki/99206) Tho its in russian but auto translate page will help ya
Are Slavs and Eastern Europeans considered Europeans? Considered how people have behaved with them in the West, I'm not really sure they are considered exactly European in the same way Germans consider the Dutch or the Swedish European. It's almost as if there was missing this feeling of brotherhood that exists between Western European nation.
Yes. We all have been fighting our brothers and cousins for more than two thousand years.
There's two major groups of europeans today: Germanics and Slavs. It's completely fair to consider them not-germanic and different if you are west-euro, they don't really have a problem with that either, but to call them not europeans... I mean what else are they? By rule of elimination they are 'europeans in the east' = east-euros.
Adrian J are the Spaniards and Italians Germanic?
@@borisbuliak3626 not nearly as much as a swede obviously, but hispania and italia were overrun by germanic tribes during the fall of the western roman empire and they stayed there. Old Mediterranean genes and celtic genes are of course still here, but they don't dominate one half of Europe each like germanic and slavic do.
there won't be any West euros by 2066 lets see how their new inhabitants will treat them
1:12 Yamna archeological culture is a cradle of indo Europeans.
Actually it’s the Andrenovo culture..
@@TDubb-jd6sc it can't be because Andronova is much younger.
Yamnaya are among the ancestors of Andronovo.
@@TDubb-jd6sc no andranova descendant from yammna
Andronovo = Yamnaya 2.0
I love your videoa
Born Russian, raised West European, I always questioned the "Slavic" ethnicity.. In my eyes it is just a cultural identity. Not many Slavic people ask themselves what Slavic actually means. It is therefore successfully used for nationalism and division. To non-Slavs I always simplistically explain that Slavs are actually a mix of Scandinavians and local tribes that already lived in Eastern Europe. And to impress them about Russia I say that Russia has 200 different peoples, half of which are indigenous. NOT MANY foreigners know that about Russia, which is a shame in my eyes!
Stupid, slav means glorius be proud and the world
Slav is a genetic group. Most slavs are almost genetically similar with few exceptions like west polish. Hence slavs are a ethnic group with distinct genetic makeup from Nordic and celtic peoples.
So is it true that the people called "rus vikings" where the ancestors of slavic tribes of russia?
@@ThatShitGood No. Rus Vikings traveled along rivers through territory inhabited by Slavic tribes to trade with Constantinople. Slavic peoples most likely originated in Ukraine