Belarus Y-DNA

[Peterski]

I just found this excellent website, it seems that R1a-Z92 is very common in Belarus:

http://blog.vayda.pl/en/haplogroup-r...2-2018-14-new/

[Peterski]

My brothers.

Varangian Rus descendants.

[Ayman Vasconic]

I2 - 18.5%
I1 - 5.6%

Quite a lot of I. Why so many so far east?

Varangian Rus descendants.

They had to be firstly & mostly R. One chieftain in Novgorod was coincidently N. The connection between I and Vikings is overrated. And most of Scandinavians were not Vikings at all.

[Vyacheslav]

[Slavic Italian]

A. I. Kushniarevich, Russian Journal of Genetics: Applied Research, 2012, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 114-121, about R1a-M458 in Belarus:

"The migration processes of the later period could enhance the regional differences in the distribution of the studied molecular marker [subclade M458 of R1a] in the population of modern Belarusians. In particular, a significantly high frequency of the R1a-M458 haplogroup in Ponemanye and Eastern Polesie regions of Belarus can reflect a movement of the tribal communities with genetic characteristics close to those in the local population into the Neman River and Pripiat River basins. Such communities could be for example Polabian Slavs who left the territory between Elbe River and Oder River at the end of the First and beginning of the Second Millennia under the influence of the expansion of Germanic tribes [Saxons, etc.]. Toponymic parallels, as well as previous results of studies of linguistic and archaeological science, indicate the relationship between the Polabian Slavs and the population of modern Belarus (Jezowa M., 1962; Sedov, 1982; Perkhavko, 1983)."

Polish (Masovian etc.) immigration could also explain higher levels of M458 in Ponemanye (= Grodno Region), but we cannot say the same thing about Eastern Polesie, which never had any significant Polish population. But the Radimiches lived there, and they are considered to be of West Slavic origin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radimichs

So these cities in Russia and Ukraine are actually more Belarusian shifted?

Subsequently, the lands of the Radimichs became a part of the Chernihiv and Smolensk principalities.

[Russki]

So these cities in Russia and Ukraine are actually more Belarusian shifted?

Subsequently, the lands of the Radimichs became a part of the Chernihiv and Smolensk principalities.

For all I know is that Russians who live near Belarus/Ukraine often have haplogroup I2, hinting at the common origin of Ukrainians, Southwest Russians and Belarusians.

[Slavic Italian]

For all I know is that Russians who live near Belarus/Ukraine often have haplogroup I2, hinting at their common origin.

Yes, but many from those three regions have Z282 marker which is common in Russia, Belarus, and North Ukraine.

[Slavic Italian]

R1a-Z282 which is common in Russia, Belarus, and North Ukraine. But you can say this about many clades both R1a and I2. I2 is quite rare compared to R1a but I think everybody here knows that.

[Jana]

R1a-Z282 which is common in Russia, Belarus, and North Ukraine. But you can say this about many clades both R1a and I2. I2 is quite rare compared to R1a but I think everybody here knows that.

It isn't rare, it's second most common haplogroup.

[Russki]

If you look at Y-DNA of Belarusians and compare it with autosomal DNA, you realize that Belarusians are basically Ukrainian men + Lithuanian women.