Russian old-settlers

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The old-settlers (

Russian America (under the name "Russian Creoles") in the 11th – 18th centuries and their descendants.[1][2][3] Among them, interethnic marriages, borrowing words from local languages and adopting the culture of Indigenous peoples
were practiced.

A principal part of them were Old Believers at least prior to the rise of the Soviet Union.

Subgroups

References

  1. ^ "Старожилы" [Starozhily (Old-Timers)]. Большая российская энциклопедия [ Great Russian Encyclopedia Online] (in Russian). 2017. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  2. ^ Schweitzer, Peter; Vakhtin, Nikolai; Golovko, Evgeniy (2005). "The Difficulty of Being Oneself: Identity Politics of "Old-Settler" Communities in Northeastern Siberia" (PDF). In Erich Kasten (ed.). Rebuilding Identities. Pathways to Reformin Post-Soviet Siberia. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag. pp. 135–151 – via Siberian-studies.org.
  3. ^ Wixman. Peoples of the USSR, p. 180.