→List of indigenous peoples of the North: I think there's only siberian Yupik not Inuit
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Fixed location of veps veps people, according to 2010 census there were no veps people in murmansk oblast so it was removed. Added Leningrad oblast as it has a veps minorty in the north-east and Vologda oblast as it has a veps national autonomy in the north-west. Also moved Karelia forward as most of the veps people live there. Kemerovo oblast was not removed because it has a veps minority because they were deported there in early 1900s.
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The indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East (Russian: коренные малочисленные народы Севера, Сибири и Дальнего Востока) is a Russian census classification of indigenous peoples, assigned to groups with fewer than 50,000 members, living in the Russian Far North, SiberiaorRussian Far East.[1] They are frequently referred as indigenous small-numbered peoples of the Northorindigenous peoples of the North.
Today, 40 indigenous peoples are officially recognised by Russia as indigenous small-numbered peoples and are listed in the unified register of indigenous small-numbered peoples (единый перечень коренных, малочисленных народов Российской Федерации). This register includes 46 indigenous peoples. Six of these peoples do not live in either the Extreme North or territories equated to it, so that the total number of recognised indigenous peoples of the North is 40.[2] The Komi-Izhemtsy or Izvatas, a subgroup of the Komi peoples, are seeking recognition from the Russian government as a distinct indigenous people of the North.
The Far North is the part of Russia which lies mainly beyond the Arctic Circle. However, this is the smaller part of the total territories inhabited by indigenous peoples. These territories extend southward as far as to Vladivostok.
The Unified register lists the following peoples: