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| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Udmurtia (Russia) | |
 Russia | 2,201 (2010)[1] |
| Languages | |
| Udmurt (Besermyan dialect) | |
| Religion | |
| Majority: Sunni Islam Minority: Russian Orthodoxy | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Udmurts, Chepetsk Tatars | |
The Besermyan, Biserman, Besermans or Besermens (‹See Tfd›Russian: бесермяне, besermyane singular: besermyanin, Udmurt: бесерманъёс, Tatar: бисермәннәр, romanized: bisermännär) are a numerically small Permian people in Russia.[2]
The Russian Empire Census of 1897 listed 10,800 Besermans. There were 10,000 Besermans in 1926, but the Russian Census of 2002 found only 3,122 of them.[3]
The Besermyan live in the districts of Yukamenskoye, Glazov, Balezino, and Yar in the northwest of Udmurtia. There are ten villages of pure Besermyan ethnicity in Russia, and 41 villages with a partial Besermyan population.
- ^ Официальный сайт Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года. Информационные материалы об окончательных итогах Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года [Official site of the National Population Census 2010. Informational materials about the final outcome Russian Census 2010] (in Russian). RU: GKS.
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