Kamasins

Kamasins
Kaŋmažə
Total population
2 (2021, 21) 21 (including those of ancestral descent)
Regions with significant populations
 Russia
Languages
Kamassian (historically)
Khakas
Russian
Related ethnic groups
Other Samoyeds, Koibals

The Kamasins (Russian: камасинцы, romanizedkamasintsy; Kamassian: Kaŋmažə)[1] are a collection of tribes of Samoyedic peoples in the Sayan Mountains who lived along the Kan River and Mana River in the 17th century in the southern part of today's Krasnoyarsk Krai.

In the Russian 2010 and 2021 censuses, two people identified as Kamassian and listed under the subgroup "other nationalities".[2][3] Also, 21 people, comprising 0.5% of the population of Sayansky District, are declared as Kamasins and their descendants by the district administration in the official tourist guide (2021).[4]

Kamassian settlement — the stand of the Uner rural locality at the Sayan Bird Fest, Aginskoye, July 2023
  1. ^ Gerson, Klump (2016). Kamas (PDF). University of Tartu. p. 36.
  2. ^ https://rosstat.gov.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/Documents/Vol4/pub-04-02.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ "Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года. Том 5. Национальный состав и владение языками. Таблица 2. Состав группы населения «Указавшие другие ответы о национальной принадлежности»". Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Администрация Саянского района. Унифицированный туристский паспорт. Саянский район Красноярского края". Retrieved 4 January 2023.