Kurds in Russia: a history

Yazidis and Kurds moved from Armenia and Georgia after 1991. Many live in Krasnodar and Moscow.

02Figures

about 23,000 Kurds and 40,000 Yazidis

census self-identification, 2010

Rosstat (from memory; 2021 census table not found) To verify

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