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.
A 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 Church0.8%
- Belief without a specific religion7.6%
- No belief in God11.8%
- Islam, neither Sunni nor Shia0%
- Christian, neither Orthodox, Catholic nor Protestant0.4%
- Sunni Islam0%
- Other Orthodox affiliation, excluding Old Believers0.2%
- Traditional ancestral religion8%
- Buddhism61.8%
- Old Believers0.2%
- Protestantism1.4%
- Shia Islam0%
- Catholicism0.2%
- Judaism0%
- Eastern religions and spiritual practices0%
- Pentecostal Christianity0.4%
- Other response0.8%
- Unable to choose an answer6.4%
The map locates selected administrative contexts, not ethnic borders or complete settlement areas.