Turkic Peoples of Russia Observatory
Peoples, languages and religious life, with separate regional census and survey profiles.
Initial research edition
38 community profiles · 20 mapped contexts · 10 statistical profiles
Ethnicity: 1 October 2021 census. Religion: 2012 adult survey, covering residents of all ethnicities in each region.
The map locates selected administrative contexts, not ethnic borders or complete settlement areas.
Chuvashia
Open full profileA region’s population and religious distribution are not the population or religion of its titular people.
Religious composition
CSVHistorical survey · 2012[3][4]
Religious self-identification · adult respondents aged 18+ · one answer.
29 May–25 June 2012
Survey results describe 2012 adult respondents, not the present-day population. Percentages are rounded. The publisher reports 500–800 interviews per region; the exact achieved sample for this republic is unverified. Overview groups combine the original response options, listed below.
Survey method & grouping
Regional adult survey fielded 29 May–25 June 2012: all ethnicities, one answer. These figures do not measure the affiliation of the region’s titular people. The publisher reports 56,900 interviews overall and 500–800 per participating region; exact achieved regional samples are unverified. Nine overview groups are our aggregation of all 18 original choices: seven Christian options, three Muslim options, Buddhism separately, and Judaism plus Eastern practices as other religions. Original source precision is retained in the response table and CSV; overview percentages are rounded.
All survey response options
- Orthodox, Russian Orthodox Church54.75%
- Belief without a specific religion24.25%
- No belief in God7.75%
- Islam, neither Sunni nor Shia3.5%
- Christian, neither Orthodox, Catholic nor Protestant2.75%
- Sunni Islam0%
- Other Orthodox affiliation, excluding Old Believers4%
- Traditional ancestral religion1.25%
- Buddhism0%
- Old Believers0.25%
- Protestantism0%
- Shia Islam0%
- Catholicism0%
- Judaism0%
- Eastern religions and spiritual practices0%
- Pentecostal Christianity0%
- Other response0.25%
- Unable to choose an answer1.25%
The map locates selected administrative contexts, not ethnic borders or complete settlement areas.