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Hajimurad
Aboriginal Siberians (Ugrians, Selkup, Ket, Tungus, Samoyedic, native Turkics etc.) are small in number and live chiefly as nomads by stock-breeding. A minority of them live in villages, but very few in cities.
No they don't.
Below are the population numbers of Siberian and Far Eastern indigenous peoples listed in the 2010 Russian census (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Census_(2010)). It includes persons who have moved to European Russia, and it includes European Nenetses. It doesn't include Komis who live in Siberia.
The total population of the peoples below was listed as 1,791,534. Buryats and Yakuts alone make up almost two thirds of it.
651355;Buryat;Mongolic
478085;Yakut;Turkic
263934;Tuvan;Turkic
74238;Altai;Turkic
72959;Khakas;Turkic
44640;Nenets;Uralic
37843;Evenk;Tungusic
30943;Khanty;Uralic
22383;Even;Tungusic
15908;Chukchi;Paleo-Siberian
12888;Shor;Turkic
12269;Mansi;Uralic
12003;Nanai;Tungusic
7953;Koryak;Paleo-Siberian
7885;Dolgan;Turkic
6779;Siberian Tatar;Turkic
4652;Nivkh;Paleo-Siberian
3649;Selkup;Uralic
3608;Soyot;Mongolic
3193;Itelmen;Paleo-Siberian
2986;Khalkha Mongol;Mongolic
2892;Kumandin;Turkic
2765;Ulch;Tungusic
2643;Teleut;Turkic
1927;Kamchadal;Paleo-Siberian
1738;Eskimo;Eskimo-Aleut
1603;Yukaghir;Paleo-Siberian
1496;Udege;Tungusic
1219;Ket;Paleo-Siberian
1002;Chuvan;Paleo-Siberian
862;Nganasan;Uralic
762;Tofalar;Turkic
596;Oroch;Tungusic
513;Negidal;Tungusic
482;Aleut;Eskimo-Aleut
355;Chulym;Turkic
295;Orok;Tungusic
227;Enets;Uralic
4;Kerek;Paleo-Siberian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buryats:
Today, the majority of Buryats live in and around Ulan-Ude, the capital of the republic, although many live more traditionally in the countryside. [...]
Traditionally, the Buryats were semi-nomadic pastoralists. Buryat nomads tended herds of cattle, sheep, goats, and camels.[23] Buryats also relied greatly on local resources to supplement their diets. Following colonization by Russia, pastoralism was gradually replaced by agriculture. The Buryat of today are largely agrarian but most in rural areas still focus on raising livestock as their main way of surviving.
In 2010, 139,500 Yakuts were listed as living in the city of Yakutsk (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Якутия).
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