The most numerous national group of residents living within the Crimean Peninsula, Russians are 1, 49 million people, or 68% of Residents who reported their ethnicity, said the head of the Department of statistics of residents and health Federal statistics service Svetlana Nikitina.

in her expression, when the census of the inhabitants in the Crimean Federal district documented 2 284 million, 8 thousand people, Of which 2 million 197, 6 thousand people (96, 2%) indicated their nationality. Just live in Crimea 175 nationalities.

"The most numerous national group of residents on the Crimean Peninsula, Russians are 1 million 492 thousand people (68% of residents who reported ethnicity). And among them, in the Russian Republic of Crimea there are 1 million 189 thousand people (65%) and in Sevastopol 303, 1 thousand people (81%), "said Nikitin at the" round table ", devoted to the preliminary results of the census of the inhabitants, in Simferopol.

Census of the inhabitants in the Crimea took place from 14 to 25 October 2014.

The second largest national group, such as Ukrainians, 344, 5 thousand people that make up fifteen, 7% of the population. And among them, in the Republic of Crimea lives 291, 6 thousands of Ukrainians (16% of the population) and in Sevastopol - 52, 9 thousand (14, 2%).

The third largest group - the Crimean Tatars, which, according to the census, is home to 232, 3 thousand people (10, 6% of the population). In addition, according to the documents, another 45 thousand people (2%) identified themselves Tatars, without naming nationality (Crimean Tatars)." at the present time a decision was made in processing the data Tatars with the native language of the Crimean Tatar be attributed to the Crimean Tatars", said Nikitin.

Commissioners of other nationalities is not more than 4%. Of these the most numerous are Belarusians - 21, 7 thousand people (1% of the population) and the Armenians are eleven thousand people (0, 2%).

From one to five thousand people, there are Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, Moldavians, Jews, Koreans, Greeks, poles, Gypsies, Chuvash, Bulgarians, Germans, Mordovians, Georgians, Turks.

Consisting of not more than one thousand people submitted Tajiks, Mari, Bashkirs, Udmurts, the Ossetians, the Kazakhs, the Arabs, the Karaites, the last, there are 535 people.

The number of Krymchaks amounted to 228 people, almost fifty percent Of them (104 people) live in Simferopol.

in comparison with the all-Ukrainian census of the inhabitants of 2001, According to Nikitina, increased the Number of Russians on 2, 7%, Armenians - by 9%, while the Number of Ukrainians decreased by 40%, Belarusians - 38%.

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