Kurds in Russia

01The programme

This programme brings together Kurds living in Russia, city by city. Its charter form is a Diaspora Chapter, fitted to local law and to the risks members face.

Forming Diaspora Chapter: not yet chartered.

02Cities

• Krasnodar Krai

  Krasnodar

  Yazidis and Kurds from the South Caucasus

• Moscow

  Moscow

  Yazidis and Kurds

Subdivisions of Russia

Each first-level subdivision has a local page. It gathers official services, learning, safety and civic life.

• AdygeaRU-AD
• Altai KraiRU-ALT
• Altai RepublicRU-AL
• Amur OblastRU-AMU
• Arkhangelsk OblastRU-ARK
• Astrakhan OblastRU-AST
• BashkortostanRU-BA
• Belgorod OblastRU-BEL
• Bryansk OblastRU-BRY
• BuryatiaRU-BU
• ChechnyaRU-CE
• Chelyabinsk OblastRU-CHE
• Chukotka Autonomous DistrictRU-CHU
• ChuvashiaRU-CU
• DagestanRU-DA
• IngushetiaRU-IN
• Irkutsk OblastRU-IRK
• Ivanovo OblastRU-IVA
• Jewish Autonomous OblastRU-YEV
• Kabardino-BalkariaRU-KB
• Kaliningrad OblastRU-KGD
• KalmykiaRU-KL
• Kaluga OblastRU-KLU
• Kamchatka KraiRU-KAM
• Karachay-CherkessiaRU-KC
• KareliaRU-KR
• Kemerovo OblastRU-KEM
• Khabarovsk KraiRU-KHA
• KhakassiaRU-KK
• Khanty-Mansi Autonomous DistrictRU-KHM
• Kirov OblastRU-KIR
• Komi RepublicRU-KO
• Kostroma OblastRU-KOS
• Krasnodar KraiRU-KDACities: 1
• Krasnoyarsk KraiRU-KYA
• Kurgan OblastRU-KGN
• Kursk OblastRU-KRS
• Leningrad OblastRU-LEN
• Lipetsk OblastRU-LIP
• Magadan OblastRU-MAG
• Mari ElRU-ME
• MordoviaRU-MO
• MoscowRU-MOWCities: 1
• Moscow OblastRU-MOS
• Murmansk OblastRU-MUR
• Nenets Autonomous DistrictRU-NEN
• Nizhny Novgorod OblastRU-NIZ
• North Ossetia–AlaniaRU-SE
• Novgorod OblastRU-NGR
• Novosibirsk OblastRU-NVS
• Omsk OblastRU-OMS
• Orenburg OblastRU-ORE
• Oryol OblastRU-ORL
• Penza OblastRU-PNZ
• Perm KraiRU-PER
• Primorsky KraiRU-PRI
• Pskov OblastRU-PSK
• Rostov OblastRU-ROS
• Ryazan OblastRU-RYA
• Saint PetersburgRU-SPE
• SakhaRU-SA
• Sakhalin OblastRU-SAK
• Samara OblastRU-SAM
• Saratov OblastRU-SAR
• Smolensk OblastRU-SMO
• Stavropol KraiRU-STA
• Sverdlovsk OblastRU-SVE
• Tambov OblastRU-TAM
• TatarstanRU-TA
• Tomsk OblastRU-TOM
• Tula OblastRU-TUL
• TuvaRU-TY
• Tver OblastRU-TVE
• Tyumen OblastRU-TYU
• UdmurtiaRU-UD
• Ulyanovsk OblastRU-ULY
• Vladimir OblastRU-VLA
• Volgograd OblastRU-VGG
• Vologda OblastRU-VLG
• Voronezh OblastRU-VOR
• Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous DistrictRU-YAN
• Yaroslavl OblastRU-YAR
• Zabaykalsky KraiRU-ZAB

The list follows UN sources first: OCHA COD-AB, then UN SALB, then ISO 3166-2. It takes no position on any status or boundary.

Subdivisions in the profile

03How statistics see the community

The census records Kurds and Yazidis as separate nationalities.

Counts of Kurds differ by what they measure: birthplace, citizenship, language or self-identification. Each figure names its measure, year and source, and none are summed.

The Russia profile

04Areas

• Academy

  Every field of knowledge, courses in all Kurdish varieties, and communities of practice.

• Heritage

  History from the Zagros to today, memory, faiths, arts, literature and food.

• Language

  Kurmanji, Sorani, Zazaki, Southern Kurdish and Gorani, in every script.

• Research

  Kurdish studies: the observatory, reading lists and new research.

• Opportunities

  Livelihoods, skills, jobs, mentoring and diaspora-to-region bridges.

• Civic

  Civic education, rights literacy, statelessness help and dialogue.

• Development

  Social programmes, livelihoods and disaster preparedness for Kurdish communities.

• News and events

  Kurdish and regional news with every outlet labelled, and the calendar of Kurdish days.

05Learn in the Academy

Courses and disciplines of the Academy on the subject of this page.

A completion record shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.

All disciplines