Russians
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Russians are a people whose native language is Russian. Their predominant religion is Eastern Orthodoxy[1].
Key Facts
- Native language: Russian[3]
- Religion or worldview: Eastern Orthodoxy[4]
- Country: Russia[5], Ukraine[6], Kazakhstan[7], United States[8], Belarus[9], Uzbekistan[10], Latvia[11], Canada[12]
- Instance of: people[13], national demonym[14]
- Ancestral home: Eastern Europe[15]
- Subclass of: Eastern Europeans[16]
- Part of: East Slavs[17]
- Commons category: Russians[18]
- Has part(s): Russian sub-ethnic and ethnographic groups[19], Semeiskie[20]
- Topic's main category: Category:Russian people[21]
- Population: 133,000,000[22]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[23], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25]
- Demonym: rus[26], rusoaică[27], ruși[28], rusoaice[29], רוסי[30], רוסיה[31], расеец[32], расейка[33], расейцы[34], росіянин[35], росіянка[36], росіяни[37]
- Different from: citizenship of Russia[38], Russians[39], Rus[40], Rus' people[41], Rusyns[42], Ruthenians[43]
- Language used: Russian[44]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q135408747[45]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Russia[46]
Body
Works and Contributions
Things named for Russians include Sunday[47], a day of the week[48]; Russian world[49], a concept[50]; pickled herring[51], a fish dish[52]; The Prayer of them[53], a national anthem[54], in Russian Empire[55]; Russian Sign Language[56], a sign language[57], in Russia[58]; and Rusų Street[59], a street[60], in Lithuania[61].
Why It Matters
Russians has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[62] They is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[63]
Entities named for them include Sunday[47], a day of the week[48]; Russian world[49], a concept[50]; pickled herring[51], a fish dish[52]; The Prayer of them[53], a national anthem[54], in Russian Empire[55]; Russian Sign Language[56], a sign language[57], in Russia[58]; and Rusų Street[59], a street[60], in Lithuania[61].