Roscosmos showed the territories where the indigenous peoples of Russia live.
Russia is a vast and diverse country. Roscosmos showed images taken from satellites of those places where the customs and culture of different peoples have been preserved for centuries.
▫ Nicolescu.
Aleuts are the indigenous people who inhabit the Census Islands. There are 399 of them in our country, and they live almost exclusively in the Nikolskoye settlement, located on Bering Island. This area is part of the traditional movement routes of the ancient Aleuts, connecting Chukotka, Alaska and Kamchatka.
▫ Kurgalsky Peninsula.
This area is compactly inhabited by the Vud, one of the oldest indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation, whose ancestors lived on the lands of the present-day Leningrad Region in I. The fourth centuries AD e. Now this small Finno-Ugric ethnic group numbers only 99 people in Russia.
▫ Futorana mountain range.
A unique mountain range located in the northwestern part of the Central Siberian Plateau. The Dolgans are a small people native to the area, numbering about 8 thousand people.
▫ Upland area.
In the territory of the Leningrad region, in its western part, there is a hill that bears the name of the Izura ethnic group. The number of this Finno-Ugric people, historically associated with these territories, currently stands at only 210 people.
Press service of Roscosmos.