RUSSIAN REPUBLICS Explained (Geography Now!)
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You asked for Russia, and although I can't cover all 85 federal subjects, here's the 22 republics, in the meantime the #MEXICO episode will be up next week and it's going to be a BIG one... with a REAL Mexican co-host! Stay tuned!
Geography Now YEEAAAHHHH ANOTHER VID!!!
Chinese Provinces or Japanese Prefecture next? France and Germany are good options as well.
My country needs explaining I don’t even understand our provinces
Could you please do the german Bundesländer next?
But whenever you do a Norway episode I can help you out
‘We don’t have time to do 85 anything’
Countries: Am I a joke to you?
Russia: YEAH! GIVE US PEACE!
Loved the video! I am from Yakutia, and it really is a special place. I speak Yakut, and it’s a very soft, relaxed language. Our winters are excruciatingly cold and summers unbearably hot, we have millions years old “eternal frost” which means if you dig a few feet under the ground you find ice even in summer, that’s why our big building have to be built on long legs and also if you dig a basement under your wooden house - a free fridge! The summer festival mentioned here is a big deal and is called ysyakh - we celebrate summer, a ‘new year’, sing the songs, connect with nature and community, older people do cleansing or blessing ceremonies and it’s just important for our ethnic pride. Also everyone wears a national costume, which is fun. I love my cultural identity, and even though I moved to Saint Petersburg a few years back, I love to go back there and feel the breeze. Other facts about Yakutia - it’s the biggest region of the biggest country of the world (we are like 8 France’s), but only like 1 million people live on 3 million square kms of land. Winters are cold - we got -71 degrees Celcius world record, but it’s dry climate winter, so not that cruel. If you have questions, ask me!
What’s the do’s and dont’s usually strong cultural places have things you should not do and things you should for example if you walk into a Japanese home with shoes on you’re disgraced
sunc0re Selaams from Turkey :3
Mickey Coleman, it's considered very wrong to wear shoes at home in Russia, not only in Yakutia
sunc0re greetings from Uyghur brothers which also Turkic people
Yakuts are in fact Turkic, and they look like almost pure Turks.
Hello from Kamchatka !
We are not Japan.
Not yet
It’s cool that you live so Far East! But I’d consider Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands to be closer to Japan than Kamchatka.
@@eddiejones5907 hey! We would never be.
Although.. It wouldn't be bad to get Japan comics at low cost
(that's a joke, maaaan)
@@nanicrash we do not need to lose more land
hows the internet?
Okay, I am Russian and never heard of Chuvashia makes beer, now I know some more about my country
в нижнем пьём постоянно, просто не повезут же чувашское пиво в сибирь например) невыгодно экономически, всё что он говорит так и есть)
Beer, lol.
@@user-zh4cg4sf7j ,если пиво хорошее, то хотя бы в Москву привезите, а там уже вся Россия узнает..)
I'd be weird if you were from Chuvashia and didn't know about this
Ох чувак как там поживает я в Чувашии у меня дед от туда был
This was absolutely fascinating!
Russia is never discussed in this context. It's always seen as this stereotypical single nation united ice land with Vodka drinking Slavs, squatting, listening to soviet music and spying on the USA. Russia is so much more than this! All these unique culture, languages and ethnic groups are so interesting. This video makes me want to travel Russia and meet all these people.
I can't wait for all the other administrative regions of Russia! *Thank you Barbs*
Welcome to Russia ,man! I advise you to visit Tatarstan ,you will be impressed. Visit all of them for that matter!.
P.S its hard to type with vodka in hand blyat
CRASH THEPARTY Lmao Spasibo bro! Russia is now moving closer to the top of my bucket list! Thanks
Totally agree, from France all we get to see from Russia is Putin and Siberian snow...
The image of Russia in the West is almost entirely made out of propaganda from different ages and political groups. It's really remarkable how little they understand the country that they like to talk so much about.
I have been in Russia 7 times, also in Buryatia. For me as a german it's my favourite country
Another interesting fact about the Sakha Republic is that it's the largest political entity in the entire world that is not a sovereign nation. If it were a country, it would be the 8th largest -- between Argentina and India.
And would be lest populous too, as the whole population here is around 950 000 people. The city I live in has more people than the whole of Yakutia.
Small correction Kazakhstan is ninth
Outdev Our oh I see
the Republic of Sakha with a flag and the language
Я если США разделить на две части, то получатся две очень большие страны с огромными экономиками, которые войдут в десятку лучших по многим параметрам. Начинайте разделяться.
I'm from Finland, but my family is originally from white sea karelia, or Viena Karelia, whatever it's called in english (Part of the Karelian republic in between the White sea and Finland.) There they speak the Viena dialect which is more mutually intelligible with Finnish than the livvi dialect spoken in olonets Karelia near lake ladoga
О привет, возможно мы родственники 😂😂😂
0:57 Adygea
1:40 Altai
2:10 Bashkortostan
2:41 Buryatia
3:19 Chechnya
4:06 Chuvashia
4:45 Crimea
5:39 Dagestan
6:29 Ingushetia
7:14 Kabardino-Balkaria
7:48 Kalmykia
8:29 Karachay-Cherkessia
8:54 Karelia
9:33 Khakassia
10:01 Komi
10:33 Mari El
11:04 Mordovia
11:29 North Ossetia-Alania
12:06 Sakha
12:36 Tatarstan
13:09 Tuva
13:47 Udmurtia
someday in the future..........
thanks
most of them are Turk speaking people too. 60%
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As a Finn, I'd really really love to visit the Uralic republics. 💖
En. Mä vaan halusin kirjottaa nimen hiraganal.
Aah, vabandage. I said that I just wanted to write my username with hiragana. :3
i even understood what did you say, also estonian :D
hey finn estonia! im from hungary. egy szót sem értek a ti beszédetekből.
Sad truth is, most of the Uralic peoples living in Russia are being Russified:
For instance, there were nearly 300 000 Karelians in the 1930s. But today there are only 50 000 Karelians, half of them speak Karelian.
Is it strange being Russian and watch the video in English about Russia?
No.
Yes
Yup
Yes, a bit..
No
Можно вечно смотреть
Как горит огонь,
Как течёт вода,
Как он выговаривает название республик)))
Got it
Согласен!
Шикарное произношение для англоязычного!)
@@nickcollins9893 кАйзыл)))
No sorry I can't do that
Мен әлемнің кез-келген жерін көргім келеді
As a fact, many nationalities in Russia are russified. As for me, I am tatar born and live in Bashkortostan. Actually, there is 48% russians, 30% tatars and 20% bashkirs. We all live together and speak russian language, sometimes we can't see any difference between our nationalities. It's cool because racism almost dead there :3
@@tincan6747 no, we don't call ourselves volga bulgars. Only tatars and bashkirs. This word is not used nowadays
@@cuthere01 i am tatar too. Привет из Уфы
@@user-gr9ul1cs9l Уфа тащит. Сам тут живу 🙃
Tatars are the core of Russian nation. So of course we don't see any difference ))
@@TheJcrist There's even a proverb, "Scrub a Russian, and you'll discover a Tatar" 🤗
I'm Kyrgyz. In post Soviet countries all can speak russian. Americans thinks if we speak or write russian, we are russian..... russian lang. - language of international communication in the post-Soviet space. Some lang. used cyrillic alphabet with some difference and it is like russian lang. for foreigners. But it isnt.
trilingualism is the norm (Native, russian and english lang (+-)).
fck russian language
@@Ralf5595 Your words are worthless
no baltics dont speak russian
Kazakh and krgyz have no honor. Look at Uzbeks Afgans chechens they don't assimilate to Russian imperialism
Team up with Russia makes no sense. We have gained independence for hundreds of years. We will not lose them anymore. Maybe the Russians influenced our people, but we have not forgotten our roots like the other nationalities that now live in Russia. VIVA Kyrgyz Republic.
It would be great to learn more about our distant "cousins" in Russia!
Lots of love from Finland
Thank you
@@mongolballempire8664 Greetings from Saint Petersburg :)
That's so nice! Thank you very much! We are truly cousins. Some scientists call Russians more Finno-Ugric than Slavic
@@zirlok3529 he speak about Karelians, not russians
sister city agreements would be great
Barbs: “Get ready this has a lot of controve-“
Me , a Crimean Tatar: ...lol I wonder what he’s about to say
Diana M How is down in Crimea? Like do you like the occupation or not. Assuming you are in Crimea of course.
@@isaacmoraesdornelasdesouza3314 Nobody likes occupation
@@isaacmoraesdornelasdesouza3314 There was no occupation.
@@aur485 u stupid crimea was invaded in 2014 and the election was phony russia had no right to take it and they will pay
@@isaacmoraesdornelasdesouza3314 Crimea is occupied only formally. In reality life there is pretty much like anywhere else in Russia.
Should've shown where they all are on the Russian map, only some were shown.
Yes. People would have seen the astounding size of Yakutia, which he forgot to mention it's the LARGEST subnational body (state, province, territory, republic, oblast etc.) in the WHOLE WORLD.
Visuals of Regions with their nieghbourhood regions & ethnicity Maps gives better understading of what we hear.
Geographically 12 million square km's of Russia out of 17 Million. Sq Km's is in. North Asia.
I just watched this with Google Earth open!
I spent the past few months studying in Russia, and I went off on my own to Kazan, Tatarstan and Cheboksary, Chuvashia. I've been interested in the peoples of Russia for some years, and I was glad to learn more about Chuvash and Tatar culture up close. Kazan is a beautiful city with a rich history, and it's amazing that an Orthodox church and mosque are a few hundred meters apart in the Kazan Kremlin. Cheboksary is much smaller that Kazan, and it's not as beautiful or interesting but I loved it nonetheless. Russia's peoples are like colorful flowers in a great garden. Saint Petersburg and Moscow are great, but go for a walk in the garden and experience some local culture if you ever have the chance, it's a great experience!
My native language is Slavic, but I respect the underrated languages of all these republics! They have to save their languages and traditions. UNESCO can help them, they`re cultural treasures.
O God, they don't need save something, they live in Russia, in iur country all our people have their iwn culture, traditions and languages, they live, where they always live for centuries, we never have aborigens, we have brothers and this always was like this, we are together for centuries.
@@user-wk5gp8pw8e российская империя зла скоро навсегда развалится и мы будем бороться за свою свободу
@@user-wk5gp8pw8e explain the Chechens, then. they're forced to marry russian girls. thats basically getting assimilated.
@@samiiiyusufffWhat makes you think that chechens are forced to marry russian girls?
@@ArtBerg9 go visit chechnya first before asking this question.
"It's very diverse" - it's the frickin' largest country in the world. If Russia isn't diverse then no country is.
MGTOW Lithuania/Lietuva Reclaim? they never owned it in the first place.
reclaim the territories that were never their in the first place... yeah right... if you would say mongolia thet would be more educated choice
Someday Poland will reclaim Lithuania
Mongolia will reclaim Inner Mongolia someday
spot a salty Balt. The game
As a russian, never knew 90% of the things you mentioned, very interesting. Russia is divers, i am a mix of 3 native people group. Fun fact - it is more expensive to travel tourusm inside Russia than travel to Europe or Turkey/Egypt.
Interesting context you provide!
Znacet sto liudi iz Moldova znaet na mnogo cem ti
ЛОВИТЕ МОСКВИЧА!! 😬
by the way this is a problem on the brics. It is more expensive to travel in Brazil than in Europe too
Да врешь ты все) в школе 8-9 класс проходят то, что он говорит. Почему ты этого не знал?
Your channel is fantastic. Keep up the great work!
Hello from Buryatia!!
Мэндээ!
(this is hello in buryat)
Жалсан Цыренжапов Много русских смотрят канал :)
Mendvt from Kalmykia
Мэндээ. Монгол улсаас
@@user-mj2dw8ov4k How to pronounce?
@@protoncoccus3229 I can read russian, and i think it's "mendē"
Sorry for your 4 month long wait!
Hi! Your fellow Russian citizen here. Actually from Bashkortostan, props to Paul far putting the emphasis on the second syllable in Ufa. Thanks for putting our republics on display, those are the coolest places in Russia IMO!
i love Bashkortostan people it's a nice people . i visite this repeblic in the summer of 2017 . it's very nice place . much love from morocco
Когда они уже набережную достроят...
I want to go to Crimea now that it's back with Russia. Ukraine is too crazy
+Melody Williams are you russian slav?
Simferopol is not a federal city. You probably confused it with Sevastopol.
Came here to say that.
Ostrov вы немного не поняли его комментарий,В России есть федеральные города такие как -Москва,Санкт-Петербург,Севастополь ,Симферополь к ним не относится
Which russian state has many creeks and streams
"Tons of oil here"
*USA has entered the chat*
No way bro, our "GREAT AND GLORIOUS LEADER" already sold all our resources to China
Also tons of nuclear weapon here
USA left the chat
@daggerin 4life Hey, leave it to Europe, we don't MORE muslims
@@user-jo9sc4ot6j Россия мусульманская страна
@@Elias-yu9qb пока многонационал Пыня у власти - так и будет
Tatarstan doesn't have as much oil as it used to. It's heavily industrialized: chemical, pharmaceutical, truck, car, construction materials and a whole lot more are a huge part of the economy. Tatarstan is a kinda trend setter in Russia: it was the first to introduce electronic government services. It claims to have its own Silicon(e) Valley, the City of Innopolis (not very successful though, I think). Tatarstan also hosts the best free economic zone in Russia with lots of incentives and facilities for investors both from home and abroad. Tatarstan is a kinda melting pot of ethnicities too.
If I meet the host in Bashkiria (aka Bashkortostan), I'd think he was a Bashkir.
Tatars and Bashkirs are close relatives in terms of their languages: they're mutually intelligeble 100%. But the origins are different. Bashkirs mostly look Asian, they have black hair, black almond eyes. Tatars are more diverse: some look European, as if Scandinavian, some look Asian, some are a mix (e.g., blonds with fair skin and blue almond eyes). Some Tatars have red hair.
60 percent of Tatarstan's exports are petroleum products, 20 percent is mechanical engineering, fully controlled by RosTech
It`s so strange see how people from Russia talkin` here in english
U right about bashkorts mostly have black hair, but not for 100%
We have many types of how we look, for example i`m white bashkort looking like swedish and asian same time
It`s so strange sometimes how people diversive here. Me and my friends we don`t look like same but we have one ethnicity
RUSSIA IS THE MOST STRANGE PLACE IN THE WORLD
What about Chechen?
What are the differences between tatars&Bashkirs and chuvash. If I remember correctly I read somewhere that chuvash people were initially tought to be finno ugric even by tatars
@@krismatt7747 , Tatars and Bashkirs can easily understand each other when speaking their languages. The Chuvash people are completely incomprehensible. Even Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh and most Turkic nations can understand each other to a various degree, at least get a general picture of what is being said. The Chuvash would be like from another planet but for the Russian lingua franca. The Yakuts, also Turkic speakers, are also hardly comprehensible but they live pretty far away and their linguistic differences don’t surprise unlike the Chuvash who have lived on the same lands as Tatars and Bashkirs for centuries.
Simferopol in Crimea is not a federal city, it's just a capital of Crimea. Federal city is Sevastopol - and by law it's not a part of Crimea republic
TheDiscovery92 it’s not Russia
@@voropvmykyta8 is it not though
@@voropvmykyta8 крымчане думают иначе. )
@@user-gv7so4uk5p а весь мир думает по-другому. Ещё крымчаше думают, что когда им проложат жд, то тогда они заживут как короли. Наивные, тупые люди.
Sator крымчане живут явно лучше, чем в некой соседней к ним стране, у которой самая высокая смертность и самая низкая роддаемость в европе
The uralic peoples in inside Russia are very interesting. As a finn I like that my cousins have some autonomy. But it is really really sad that the karelian culture is slowly dying. I haven't been there but when I listen to people speaking the language it truly sounds like Finnish with just a bit of Russian thrown into the mix. I hope they begin reviving the language and culture, because it is really closely related to Eastern Finland where I live.
Karelian is often counted as a dialect of Finnish.
Yes I know and I really can see why
My girlfriend is learning karelian in university currently, so that's a start at least
@@BigBiLeft 👍👍
I know of a group that's trying to preserve a unique dialect of German called Texas German (I know it sounds weird but a lot of the white settlers of Texas where from Germany). They are trying to teach high German speakers the dialect and then have public schools in Texas teach it as a part of the standard German language curriculum. A similar thing may be done to save keralian. Teach some fins and have them teach it back to the original population.
Love from Kazakhstan♡ every time he says "they were reported to Kazakhstan"😁 It was sad for people back then😞, but now our country is very diverse, it is great ❤
Diversity is not great who would think that IT is
Deported not reported
Are you Kazakh or Russian? There are lots of Russians in Kazakhstan.
@кино кино what are chechins?
@@haseebwani5577 Chechens* We are an ethnic group in russia our republic is located in the Caucasus we've had 2 wars against Russia the 1st being successful and the 2nd being our loss.
Great video, man! I would like to mention as a Russian native speaker, that your pronounciation of these names was great and pretty close to what how we call these republics. Very impressive!
Udmurtia? More like:
*_GINGERSTAN_*
why is this not top comment!
Just visit Scotland
@@_productivity__nill_1131 turns out the Udmurt people have an even higher concentration of red hair than Scotland
@@zekun4741 Udmurts are literally Scottish of Russia
pArTy FoR eVeRyBoDy DaNcE
Love the video Barbs... But can you PLEASE consistently add pictures of the republics where they are located? Same thing for the India and Brazil episodes. It's very annoying to be told all about the interesting place and have no idea of where it is.
Jake Nowell en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_Russia
I've just learnt all the Indian states using his excellent video and each state was clearly prefixed with a map and the name and capital. I'm all for that being done in each of these videos as darting to and from Wikipedia will be mightily inconvenient.
Man, as a Russian, I am surprised of how good you pronounce the names of the subjects here! Good work! Never heard of Chuvash beer tho. Have to try! Thanks:)
мне кажется они как вересковый мед держат его в секрете и производят только для "своих"
Если бы жили в сопредельных с Чувашией регионах - знали бы о пиве.
Thank you for your hard work on this. It was very helpful!
FINALLY someone did that in english!
Greetings from Russia and the ethnographers working here)
"Here's the thing. The land here is really flat but the people are still really fond of cross-country skiing."
There's nothing contradictory about that. Cross-country skiing is a _fine_ way to cross unpaved flatland in snowy conditions. If you had said that they were really fond of _downhill_ skiing, _that_ would be surprising.
Ohhh, so in love with this episode. I always want to visit Tatarstan to see those beautiful mosques, also their interesting history how their tribes moved into their own land. Besides, Altai, Buryatia, Kalmykia and Tuva are those republics really attract me. So different with other nearby regions, maintaining their own Asian tradition till today. Among these republics, I paid more attention in Buryatia and Tuva due to their location which are closer to the East part of Asia, and their culture connected with Mongolian. Also is because that Buryatia is just aside of the amazing Lake Baykal which appeared in my dream and must-go list. I really hope can visit there one day... although I can still only say "Спасибо" in Russian and "нааш ир" in Mongolian... :P
also half of the republics are Turkic speaking people. Then the second largest are the finno-ugric speaking people then caucasian and a couple mongolian nations. Also the various east siberians like the tungusic and yeneseians etc who dont have their own republics due to numbering less then a few thousand people each.
"If you are Finnish, Estonian, or Hungarian, what do you think about the Uralic people?" - Cousins, absolutely. The thing is, if you belong to the Uralic language family, you don't have too many related languages, so you cherish the few that exist.
The closest language to Hungarian is the finno-urgic Mansi-Khanty people of Yugra. Hungary or Hungar is a variation of the name Yugra or Ungra in Khanty and Mansi language. btw there is 25 finno-ugric peoples and languages today...I wouldnt call that a few(over 30 million speakers)
Turkic people also have the Uralic language group, and i can tell most of us Turkic people also see them as cousins,brothers and sisters.
Some Russian ethnics really look like Asian. When I was in Korean camp I decided to get acquainted with my Korean neighbours. I said "Hello, my name is Katya. Nice to meet you". I was so surprised when I heard "My russkiye"(we're Russian). It turned out that they're Yakut😂
Although we had strange meeting, we're still friends)
Thanks for the video. Your channel is the best!!!
- Your subscriber from Russia
You story is nice and greet from a Chinese in Finland.
Просто они сами себя путают. Они россияне, но никак не русские. Но тут очень спорный вопрос. Например у меня есть друг бурят. Но он ничего про свой народ не знает. Он не знает ни культуру и традиции своего народа, он не знает бурятского языка, ничего абсолютно о своём народе не знает. И кем ему себя считать? Тут можно долго говорить...
@@cudnykot9868 Но а зачем? Разделяться людям в разы проще чем объединяться. И никакого смысла в сотнях небольших и обособленных народностей нет. А русские это кто? Ростовчане? Новгородцы? Тульцы? так в старину и эти области были с разными культурами и диалектами. Все люди разные - делиться по категориям можно до тех пор пока не останешься один такой уникальный на свете.
И культура Якутов - важна и теперь это часть русской культуры, ты я и все русские это на 1/85ую якуты.И на 1/85ую Чеченцы и Татары и т.д.
А Русскими мы будем только в этом состоянии. Если ограничить нас Подмосковьем да прилегающими областями - то тогда мы уже не будем Русскими. Каждый будет уже москвичами, владимирцами, тверчанами и т.д.
Omg my name is Katya too! But I'm not Russian 😂
Why do they look asian?
1. Not only republics have their own official language in Russia. Autonom districs (avtonomnye okruga) and autonom region (avtonomnaya oblast') also have their own official national language.
2. Simferopol is not federal city. You mix it up with Sevastopol))
It cant be, as both are ukrainian. You will get away very soon.
hopefully nationalism will die sooner
Paolo Ghidini Crimea should be Russian, if you go by ethnicity, but it is physically attached to Ukraine. However, the Russians should have not invaded it, and instead they should’ve negotiated for it, maybe purchase it from Ukraine
jdub2003 I agree. What you are saying it's a sensible analysis of the situation. We should also take into account that the revolution that overthrew a democratically elected government with the help of nationalist-far-right-para-military groups didn't exactly set good premises for a dialogue of any kind (see also the response of Hungary, Poland and Romania to the Ukranian revolution, that they recognised as a threat to the numerous minority groups in the country) In conclusion: both sides have their share of blame and did something wrong to get the most out of the situation. None of this would have happened if on both sides we'd had sensible, open minded and progressive people in power.
Paolo Ghidini i agree. I am glad at least us are able to have a calm debate. Anyways, Ukraine is having these issues as it is split between the west and east. The western, more Ukrainian part wants to establish ties to the EU and NATO, while the eastern, more Russian part wants to establish more times with Russia. This is the reason there are breakwater states in the east of Ukraine, those states want to join Russia.
4:45 lol, bro, you mixed up Simferopol and Sevastopol. Both are located in Crimea, Simferopol is the capital of Crimea, and Sevastopol is a separate subject of the Russian Federation - a city of federal importance, such as St. Petersburg and Moscow.
I love your channel so much man. Thank you for taking the time to do all of that research and video editing so that we can all learn about our world and each other!
Kalmykia is really a demographic anomaly is because, it's basically Asia in Europe-East Asians dwelling in the European side of Russia, which is... my goodness!
However, it's interesting since I didn't expect that to happen. It's like the "complete opposite" of the Uyghurs, who may be Chinese citizens but their looks are pretty much "Western-ish."
Kalmyks inhabited deep in china mongilia far east than Uygurs but China make them move to west Kazakhstan direction as they were ex enemies of Kazakhs they are pushed more West so now we have a European Budist nation.
MSP TV Catherine relocated kalmyks to Caucasus to let them fight nogay people. Nogays were suppressed by joint forces of regular russian army and kalmyks.
Can you do the 16 german Bundesländer?
Die Amis denken, dass Deutschland nur aus Lederhosen und Brezen besteht
Also nur Bayern
Vielleicht könnte das ein bisschen Aufklärung bringen
Sehe ich auch so^^
Barby, you can also ask me something about the Bundesländer if you're curious about something
Ostgebiete nicht vergessen!!
I don't understand anything , but saw "Bundes" and "Bayern" , and remainder this is not the Bundesliga channel
Thank you for summarizing this! Bravo :)
One interesting thing about Sakha/Yakutia is that it is the largest administrative division in the world. (Second is Western Australia in Australia, third is Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia)
Simpheropol is not a federal city. Sevastopol is.
i think he said the capital of Crimea is Simferopol
oops, nevermind. i heard it too
Ukrainian
It's Ukraine
Some butthurted Ukrainians are here.
I'm Hungarian and I've been to Udmurtia, Komi and Mari El. I've also been to a traditional Mari pagan ceremony. No Hungarian should expect to understand the local language (though related), but these places are wonderfully interesting anyway.
Thank you so much for this video. I can understand how much time and effort it took you. Russia's minorities are not talked about enough.
whats your ethnicity
Supreme Leader, she said Hungarian
Fino ugor brother xd
That's an interesting information because I am from Mari El from Yoshkar-Ola actually. What the author should mention about it that those people decorated in national clothing and stuff are not how most common folks are living here, i mean its more traditional national culture thing. He did a good research nontheless.
салам :) well I hope that viewers understand that in cities and regular workdays people just wear normal Western clothing. But I found it really fascinating how people still wear national costume in the villages for holidays and performing. It's also nice to see (at least I find it beautiful) how people (especially my generation, in their teens and twenties) incorporate their ethnic symbols into their regular outfits, like, wearing a simplified traditional neckpiece, earrings with Finno-Ugric symbols (mimicking archaeological findings), or wearing clothes that mimick traditional cut lines. Just subtle showing of ethnicity. Those who don't know what it is wouldn't even notice it's ethnic. I've seen a lot of that in Mari El, and especially Udmurtia. (I myself wear such things in Budapest for work as well, they're just so cool.)
I am from Dagestan and I love Dagestan 😍
There are sea and mountains, moreover there is desert!
There are cows walking there streets))
Putin also loves Dagestan and all of the Caucasus! That is why hes recruiting mostly from your areas for Ukraine. lol
@@teovu5557 hahahah
Are you kumyk?
@@teovu5557 according to the BBC even the soldiers recruited from the republics are mostly ethnic Russian. Either way people in Dagestan are Russian and love Russia so of course they will fight for their country.
Some nights when i cant sleep i just open up google maps and see places in satellite view. I always find russia fascinating and zoom in on some of its remote places. It is this curiosity that brought me here to this video. I hope i can someday make a trip across russia and meet these vibrant and beautiful cultures.
Stalin didn't bring the Chechens back to Chechnya Khrushchev did.
Khrushchev was also the one who transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine.
I from Chechen republic
@Ilhan Tuncay probably is
Khrushchev forgot to build the wall, what a terrible mistake
@@CHECHNYA_-hz1sg so do you and your fellow chechans consider yourself a part of Russia?
Well done! I'm from Buryatia. Yes, Baikal is considered to be a sacred place here but no one cares much about the environment in Russia
Regards from Poland 🇵🇱
“No one cares much about the environment in Russia”
-Nah, that’s the US-
Gameflyer001 where is that?
Lake baikal is amazing, I love how you take of it
Gameflyer001 I think I’ve heard about that yes, the population there is very poor as well because the river doesn’t provide for them anymore
hello from Petrozavodsk :) my grandmother is veps and also they teach karelian in our university. Also we have famous sightseeing Kizhi , it was included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites. The Kizhi Pogost was built without using a single nail.
That looks so beautiful, like Arendelle in Frozen with the wooden buildings. Straight outta a fairytale.
Yakutian here. You forgot to mention that Yakutia is the largest republic and federal subject of Russia.(
Potato Supreme It’s also the largest political subdivision in the world.
And also the largest turkic Country my Brother ☝️❤
@Kadir Garip Kazakhstan is the largest INDEPENDET turkic country in the world but Yakutia (Sacha) is the largest in general .
@@starkillermiri Yakutia/Sakha is larger than Kazakhstan.
now you need to cover ..the oblasts of russia
O h n o
Chelyabinsk Oblast represent!
Samovar maker no way..I went there after the world cup
D'Brickashaw I was born there boi! What were you doing in Chelyabinsk anyway? It's not exactly the most tourist-y place in Russia...
Samovar maker it was 2 hours away from yekaterinburg...I loved the zoo
With each one of your videos I realize more and more how freaking little I know about the world....
And this is Russia alone...
There should be a video just about the Turkic language countries/regions. They are far-flung family.
Yes, I am a Turk.
I am quite interested in this group of people. As a person of Greek ancestry (please don’t get mad), I assumed all Turkic peoples were like the people of Turkey (Muslim and loving the Ottoman Empire) but there are some very interesting peoples that I have discovered such as the Tulane who are like Mongolians and the tatars who are kind of related to the Bulgarians (the bulgars who are now completely assimilated into the Slavic culture but were Turkic). Much respect to all of the Turkic nations and autonomous religions (especially the ones that do not hate my people)! 🇺🇸🇬🇷🇺🇿🇹🇲🇰🇬🇰🇿🇦🇿🇹🇷
@@tylerchurch2373 there is no hate between people my friend . There is only hate between the governments .
The republics are much more Russian than you think. I grew up in Tatarstan and Mari El and didn't know that Maris even existed until I was 10.
Shame on you
"Than you think"?
Barbs lists the ethnic minority's population percentage in its republic for every single one. And it's not a surprise to see the low rates of minorities considering the old Russian policy of to deport/exile the different ethnic groups and to migrate Russians to replace them.
In addition, many of their old peoples living in their regions were forced to immigrate to different countries due to Russian massacreing.
If these republics actually had a percentage of over 70% within their respective regions, they might've been able to break away from Russia in the 90s. Even Kazakhstan barely managed it.
@@dorthusiast also lots of people name themselves as Russians to have more perks. There was also a practice to give Ukrainians on Kuban, Volga, Vladivostok, etc. passports with Russian nationality and nobebody asked them. The same stuff was happening to Don Cossacs.
Yaaay, finally my Homeland ,one of the most beautiful countries in the World!!! Greetings from Karelia ( Karjala)!!!
P.S. Small correction: Stalin never "brought back" Chechens, Khrushchov did.. Other than that ,awesome vid.
dude do the people of karelia want to join to finland again?
Parking Case No.
Parking Case do finnish people want to join Russia again?
How many languages do you speak?
Mun mummi on Karjalainen Viipurista.
I'm Russian and heeey a Russia related episode, finally! I live in a kray, not a republic but I'm half Tatar and half Komy so it was really cool to hear something about those republics from you :) also, you covered the Crimean issue just great. It's a difficult topic and it's good to see that someone just saying the facts and not pushing their own opinion on the issue. Thanks, Barb!
@@alekshukhevych2644 yeah I meant that I'm a Russian citizen. I don't consider myself as an ethnic Russian.
The Count What do the locals in Tatarstan and Komy think about independence from Russia? I know Tatarstan would certainly like it, but Komy not sure!
@@alekshukhevych2644 as far as I know, people mostly don't care.
Daniél Zúbik, я чуть выше в комментах объяснил, что имел в виду "россиянин", а этническим русским я себя не считаю.
@@thecount4638 Да мне похуй. Ты просто запутал читателей
first of all, just started watching your videos and I can't stop! they are very entertaining and informative. second, do you take one big breath at the beginning of each episode? or do you not breath at all ? ...
Great job! Really interesting and detailized video. Respect from Karelia Republic)
I just stumbled today on Geography Now. It is incredible! I have spent three hours watching your videos. I am in the middle of typing a research paper on my ethnic autobiography for my senior college paper. It's been a bit of challenge. I was adopted at eleven from Birobidzhan, Russia. I think it is the only Autonomous Oblast in Russia. Very few know where this is. I stumbled on your channel while researching. It would be phenomenal if you covered it in the future. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Thank for taking the time to do them.
this is extraordinary! It is the first time I hear ACTUALLY about someone from Birobidzhan. Do you know maybe how exactly is it connected to Jews? I think Stalin wanted to put theme there, but I'm not sure...
Heeeey, that’s so cool - I’ve lived my whole life in Russia, travelled to some of these republics, and even studied geography in my university, BUT this is by far the most interesting and simple (in a good way) explanation of the diversity of these regions! It would be so awesome if you covered the rest of the regions in your videos someday. Thanks a lot for your work, I love your channel! ❤️
Hey, u didn’t cover Dagestan even a bit, there’s so much to talk about. If you want I can provide any necessary information about Dagestan. Just let me know
Same with chechnya and ingushetia, but to be honest he would need hours and hours to cover every republic in the caucasus as it is rich with culture and history
Thanks for this episode! It's very interesting to listen about your country from foreigners :')
3:35 Stalin didn’t brought back the chechen people, Khruschev did in 1957, 12 years later
Languages of Dagestan
Avar branch.
Avar language
Andi branch
аndian language
akhvakh language
karatinskij language
Botlikh language
Gogoberidze language
bavlinski language
tyndinskiy language
kamalinski language
Tsezsy branch
tsezski language
Hvarshinsky language
inkhokarinski language
ginoski language
bezhtinskiy language
gunibskiy language
Lak branch
Lak language
Dargwa branch
Akushan language.
muginsky language
tsudakharsky language
gapshiminskiy-buttinski language
braginski language
myurego-goldensky language
Kadar language
Murinsky language
mageski language
serginskiy language
amusco-hudecki language
kocinski language
sanjie-carinski language
ciralsky language
Verhnechutinsky language
nizhnechutinsky language
Kubachi language
istinski language
Lezgian branch
Lezgin language
Tabasaran language
Agul language
Rutul language
Tsakhur language
Bugajski language
krynski language
Archi language
Udi language
Khinalug language
extinct Agvan language
Do they use the same alphabet or each one has their own alphabet?. Can Avar understand Andi Branch's language ??
@@arabiyyah7965 main languages have their own alphabets based on Cyrillic, as well as some minor ones. And people within one branch don't normally understand each other. For example, Aguls don't speak Lezgin language but can recognize some words there.
@@zairamagomedova8496 how can the languages be so distinct as to be incomprehensible to each other in such a small and ancient place?
@@aceman0000099 the place is mountainous, you see.
@ludwig amadeus how is that kek
4:45 - Simferopol is just a capital of Crimea, and the "federal city" is SEVASTOPOL. (in Ukrainie and Russia as well)
Sen niye türk değolsin awwww
2:06 Hey! This mummy is the neighbour of my grandparents. They live behind the museum of El Altay.
Nice neighbours 😅
i would like to clarify something about the circassians:
cherkess is the russian word for circassian (similarly çerkes is the turkish for it) but we circassians call ourselves adygha so they aren't actually separate tribes but just different names for the same people group
but it is true that the kabardins are actually the most numerous of the adygha at least in caucasia today
Chinese provinces would be awesome :)
Or atleast the autonomous regions of PRC
Are you a Maori or Chinese or both? 🇳🇿🇨🇳
I think he already covered some of them, as right now, russians are lending some big territories from Siberia and other parts, to China.
Eh there are like 33 of them if you count Hong Kong and Macau.
I wonder how easy it would be to get subscriber info on Chinese provinces? YT is banned in mainland China if I'm not mistakes. But I agree it would be awesome. Of course HK, Macao and Taiwan people might be watching Geography now.
Hello Russia from Nepal
Привет, Непал! (Hello Nepal)
Hi! Привет
2:10-2:40, Bashkortostan, my motherland, thank you guys. By the way, monument for the national hero Salavat Yulayev, he faught against colonization in age of Yekaterine II in 1773-1775.
крч нацик он
Aha dilimi anlamayacak türk var :) auuuuuuu
@@antony1998 бороться за независимость это нацизм?Тогда СССР был нацистским гос-ом?
@@AmirSatt да
@@antony1998 visible confusion
13:00 the capital of Tatarstan Kazan is also home to several very important universities.
I need to correct you Paul :) you said that you can enter South Ossetia from Georgia, just need to have a passport which is unfortunately not true. It's actually impossible to enter Ossetia from Georgia and the only way to get there is through Russian Northern Ossetia :) the other thing is with Abkhazia though...
Thanks for the material, I find it really useful in my postsovietworldfreakism 😅
Hmmm I've have Georgian people tell me they could get in, they just needed to show their passports, so....I'm not exactly sure what to make of it then...?
I’m from India, and we LOVE RUSSIA😘😘long live the Russia-India friendship
Yes finally . It be great if each of this have their own video like what you did to all the countries
Great video as always, Russia is such an interesting country!Maybe the regions of Spain would be a good one to do next, Spain is a lot more diverse than most people think or assume!
I am from Spain and i agree. We are quite diverse in many diferent ways.
My country , Poland, is very homogeneous and I am very happy with that.
David Landeros it means their regions are pretty all the same
Lived in Spain. Yes it it very interesting to see differences between all the parts of Spain, even in language. I know also Poland well (but not live there, only visiting) and I feel there are quite differences between coast regions, Silesia regions and inlad regions
We have differencies between them regions, different accents and cousines, but they are all ethnic poles, one culture, one religion One family.
As a Hungarian the thing that I can mention about the Uralic republics that in the Medieval ages, a monk called Julianus visited those places (based on the ancient Byzantian scripts) and found out that he could even speak with those people with the use of Hungarian language! He used the structure 'Magna Hungaria' to those places. Of course it was like more than 500 years ago and the Mongols pretty sure destroyed those 'Magna Hungaria' people (the main point of this story was that the Hungarian king of that time found out the danger of Mongols from Julianus, who got the information from the Uralic people talking to them in Hungarian), but it's just an interesting story/info that every teacher taught us in school :)
That's because Hungarians migrated to eastern Europe from the Ural region where all Finni-Ugric tribes originally lived
Róbert Gönczi you are all Turka you don’t know
You still can speak a little with Khants and Mansies, a title ethnicities of Khanty-Mansian Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO), also being called as Yugorian land or Yugra (compare that to Old Rus' name for Hungarians - Ugry, Ugorian people, in modern Ukrainian Hungary is "Ugorshchyna").
There not destroyed they still live there today in the Yugra(also called Ungri) region of Russia as the Mansi and Khanty people. Language is different now though but still pretty close kind of like how German is to Dutch.
Magna Hungaria was mentioned by the thirteenth-century Franciscan Giovanni da Plano Carpini in his reports of his travels in northern and central Asia. Friar Julian also visited Magna Hungaria in the interest of finding the Eastern Hungarians.
According to the most common version, Magna Hungaria was in the forest-steppe regions of Bashkortostan, in the area of the Kushnarenkovo and Karayakupovo cultures, in the region of the Southern Urals
Loved it, thanks mate.
One of my favorites from you. These are special people❤
Hi! I am actually from Chuvashia. Thanks for covering our tiny republic that I couldn't believe you would or anyone else to cover!
much love from turkey :D
Sevgiler Iran Azerbaijaninnan. We love all the Turkic people from all over world.
A map explaining each republic location was needed!!!
Mathias Espindola right?! even flashing a map (with the full country and region in highlights) for a second would be great! :)
OMG I did not know all this. I have to watch it again n again to understand this. Also find out all these countries separately. Thanks for this informative video. Regards
“Who”, not “whom”. Great video. Needed more reference maps for each different region mentioned.
If you play CK2 or EU4 you understood this video so much better...
I had the the vibe while listening, almost reinstall the game))))))))))) Though I am more families with the region cause spent some time in Russia.
It has Cheremis and Mari which are in fact the same. Cheremis was how Russian named them those times basically meant a forest warrior. Now its a strong derogatory term.
Fk yeah haha
Great video! Could you do a video on Amerindian reservations in the United States? I'm American and to be honest I've never learned about how these reservations are seen by the federal and state governments. Might be a cool video to do!
What a great idea!
You have earned my sub, good on you lad
I am Tatar, I live in Bashkortostan. There are a lot of Turkic peoples in Russia, we are one people. TATARSTAM HÄM BAŞQORTOSTAN YAŞASIN!
I'm from Bashkortostan. I live in its capital city called Ufa. Here's "hello" in Bashkort: haумыhыгыз.
Anyway, thank u for the video and hi from Russia!
russia is heart of india... India russia friendship live forever.
I am from Zaton district in Ufa
Nilay Patel How is Russia a heart of India?
Hazza Stylinson Ufa is a nice city, greetings from Rostov Oblast!
@@glebsokolov9959 he meant that India holds dear Russia and values the friendship between the two nations. Hes not referring to the actual heart of India in terms of location
Hi! I'm a Hungarian guy now living for 5 mounths in Udmurtia! Hello from here.
de a nyelvet nemigen érted, ha jól sejtem :D
Dehogynem. Már nem először vagyok kint. Jobban tudok udmurtul, mint oroszul. :)
Hello from Izhevsk!)
@@chaosgod5835 Hi! :)
Working for Kalashnikov, aren't you?
Crimea actually has no official ethnic group, and it was the only republic to have no ethnicity until the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics became (according to Russia) republics of Russia, also with no official ethnic minority.
Barbs, you forgot to put all the Republics in the map :(.
Anyway, thanks man, I didn’t know anything about how Russia was divided.
WOoOW! This really puts in perspective ethnic/cultural diversity. Historians and geographers, not to mention media, politic and economic powers, tend to give an uniformed and simplified version of the reality. Understanding and respecting diversity enriches us and looking for common issues or interests makes countries/nations great.
You raise some really relevant points there!
Yes, the Russian Federation is certainly diverse. This diversity came about as a result of the building of the Russian empire, the only empire still in existence today. Of course it is no longer called an empire: it went on to be called the Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation.
Why are all these flags so beautiful? These flags are very well designed, unusually well for subdivision flags.
This nation! Each of them is special for us, we appreciate all of them and it is their self-determination and their history, and therefore flags such as a symbol of this region/region/ people.
You did an excellent job on pronouncing the proper names, which is rather troublesome thanks to the transcription (I'm looking at you, Kyzyl)
Surprisingly good pronunciation. Nice Job!