Besermyan

Besermyan
Regions with significant populations
Udmurtia (Russia)
 Russia2,036 (2021)[1]
Languages
Udmurt (Besermyan dialect)
Religion
Majority: Sunni Islam
Minority: Russian Orthodoxy
Related ethnic groups
Udmurts, Chepetsk Tatars

The Besermyan, Biserman, Besermans or Besermens (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.

A map of Udmurtia with highlighted regions where the Besermyan live.
  1. ^ Национальный состав населения Российской Федерации согласно переписи населения 2021 года [National composition of the population of the Russian Federation according to the 2021 population census] (in Russian). RU: GKS.
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  3. ^ demoskop.ru: Alphabetical list of peoples of the Russian Empire Archived 2012-02-05 at the Wayback Machine