Udmurtia

Udmurtia,[note 1] officially the Udmurt Republic,[note 2] is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is administratively part of the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Izhevsk.

For other uses, see Udmurtia (disambiguation).
Udmurt Republic
Republic
Удмуртская Республика
Other transcription(s)
 • UdmurtУдмурт Республика
Flag of Udmurt Republic
Flag
Coat of arms of Udmurt Republic
Coat of arms
Anthem: National Anthem of the Udmurt Republic
Coordinates: 57°17′N 52°45′E
CountryRussia
Federal districtVolga[1]
Economic regionUrals[2]
CapitalIzhevsk
Government
 • BodyState Council[3]
 • Head[3]Aleksandr Brechalov
Area
[4]
 • Total42,061 km2 (16,240 sq mi)
Population
 (2021 Census)[5]
 • Total1,452,914
 • Estimate 
(2018)[6]
1,513,044
 • Rank32nd
 • Density35/km2 (89/sq mi)
 • Urban
65.7%
 • Rural
34.3%
Time zoneUTC+4 (MSK+1 Edit this on Wikidata[7])
ISO 3166 codeRU-UD
License plates18
OKTMO ID94000000
Official languagesRussian;[8] Udmurt[9]
Websitehttp://www.udmurt.ru/en/

Name

The name Udmurt comes from odo-mort ('meadow people'), where the first part represents the Permic root od or odo ('meadow, glade, turf, greenery'). This is supported by a document dated 1557, in which the Udmurts[10] are referred to as lugovye lyudi ('meadow people'), alongside the traditional Russian name otyaki.[11]

The second part murt means 'person' (cf. Komi mort, Mari mari). It is probably an early borrowing from a Scythian language: mertä or martiya ('person, man'; Sanskrit: Manus or Manushya

), which is thought to have been borrowed from the Indo-Aryan term maryá- ('man, mortal, one who is bound to die'. cf. Old Indic márya ('young warrior') and marut ('chariot warrior'), both connected specifically with horses and chariots.[12] The Indo-Europeanists T. Gamkrelidze and V. Ivanov associate this word with horse-riding Altaic tribes in the Bronze Age.[13][14]

On the other hand, in the Russian tradition, the name 'meadow people' refers to the inhabitants of the left bank of river in particular. Recently, the most relevant is the version of V. V. Napolskikh and S. K. Belykh. They suppose that ethnonym was borrowed either from Indo-Iranian *anta 'outside, close, last, edge, limit, boundary' or Turkic-Altaic *anda/*ant 'oath (in fidelity), comrade, friend'.[15]

History
Map of the Udmurt Republic.
Part of a series on the
History of Udmurtia
Coat of arms of the Udmurt Republic

On November 4, 1920, the Votyak Autonomous Oblast was formed.[16] On January 1, 1932, it was renamed Udmurt Autonomous Oblast, which was then reorganized into the Udmurt ASSR on December 28, 1934.[16] During World War II, many industrial factories were evacuated from the Ukrainian SSR and western borderlands to Udmurtia.

Geography

The republic is located to the west of the Ural Mountains and borders Kirov, Perm, Bashkortostan, and Tatarstan.[17]

Udmurtia is a republic in the Russian Federation, located in Central Russia between the branches of the rivers Kama and its right tributary the Vyatka.

The city of Izhevsk is the administrative, industrial and cultural center of Udmurtia. Geographically, it is located not far from Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Russian Federation. The city has a well-developed transport system (including air, land, and water).

Udmurtia borders Kirov Oblast to the west and north, Perm Oblast to the east, and the Bashkortostan and Tatarstan Republics to the south.

Climate

The republic has a moderate continental climate, with warm summers and cold, snowy winters. Annual precipitation averages 400–600 mm.

Average temperatures
Month Average temperature
January −14.5 °C (5.9 °F)
July +18.3 °C (64.9 °F)

Administrative divisions
Main article: Administrative divisions of Udmurtia

Demographics

Population: 1,452,914 (2021 Census);[18] 1,521,420 (2010 Census);[19] 1,570,316 (2002 Census);[20] 1,609,003 (1989 Census).[21]

Although as of 2007 the population was declining, the decline was stabilizing and was more pronounced in urban areas. Out of the 19,667 births reported in 2007, 12,631 were in urban areas (11.86 per 1,000) and 7,036 were in rural areas (14.88 per 1,000). Birth rates for rural areas are 25% higher than that of urban areas. Of the total of 21,727 deaths, 14,366 were reported in urban areas (13.49 per 1,000) and 7,361 were in rural areas (15.56 per 1,000). Natural decline of the population was measured at −0.16% for urban areas and an insignificant −0.07% for rural areas (the average for Russia was −0.33% in 2007).[22]

Settlements

Vital statistics

Source[23]

Average population (× 1,000) Live births Deaths Natural change Crude birth rate (per 1,000) Crude death rate (per 1,000) Natural change (per 1,000) Total fertility rate
1970 1,421 23,286 13,265 10,021 16.4 9.3 7.1
1975 1,459 26,497 14,666 11,831 18.2 10.1 8.1
1980 1,508 27,601 16,862 10,739 18.3 11.2 7.1
1985 1,562 29,343 17,553 11,790 18.8 11.2 7.5
1990 1,614 24,345 15,816 8,529 15.1 9.8 5.3 2.04
1991 1,619 22,213 16,002 6,211 13.7 9.9 3.8 1.90
1992 1,623 20,074 18,063 2,011 12.4 11.1 1.2 1.73
1993 1,622 17,126 21,923 −4,797 10.6 13.5 −3.0 1.48
1994 1,619 16,874 24,183 −7,309 10.4 14.9 −4.5 1.45
1995 1,615 15,484 22,445 −6,961 9.6 13.9 −4.3 1.32
1996 1,610 14,877 20,641 −5,764 9.2 12.8 −3.6 1.26
1997 1,606 15,368 19,881 −4,513 9.6 12.4 −2.8 1.30
1998 1,603 16,130 19,080 −2,950 10.1 11.9 −1.8 1.36
1999 1,598 15,793 20,745 −4,952 9.9 13.0 −3.1 1.32
2000 1,592 16,256 21,852 −5,596 10.2 13.7 −3.5 1.36
2001 1,583 16,636 22,810 −6,174 10.5 14.4 −3.9 1.38
2002 1,572 17,746 24,520 −6,774 11.3 15.6 −4.3 1.46
2003 1,561 17,982 24,571 −6,589 11.5 15.7 −4.2 1.47
2004 1,552 18,238 23,994 −5,756 11.7 15.5 −3.7 1.47
2005 1,543 17,190 24,006 −6,816 11.1 15.6 −4.4 1.38
2006 1,535 17,480 22,011 −4,531 11.4 14.3 −3.0 1.40
2007 1,529 19,667 21,727 −2,060 12.9 14.2 −1.3 1.57
2008 1,525 20,421 21,436 −1,015 13.4 14.1 −0.7 1.65
2009 1,523 21,109 20,227 882 13.9 13.3 0.6 1.71
2010 1,522 21,684 21,100 584 14.3 13.9 0.4 1.78
2011 1,519 21,905 20,358 1,547 14.4 13.4 1.0 1.83
2012 1,518 23,225 19,526 3,699 15.3 12.9 2.4 1.98
2013 1,517 22,138 19,332 2,806 14.6 12.7 1.9 1.92
2014 1,517 22,060 19,461 2,599 14.5 12.8 1.7 1.96
2015 1,517 22,195 19,533 2,662 14.6 12.9 1.7 2.01
2016 1,517 21,024 19,090 1,934 13.8 12.6 1.2 1.96
2017 1,515 17,954 18,130 −176 11.9 12.0 -0.1 1.72

TFR source[24]

Ethnic groups

According to the 2021 Census,[25] Russians make up 67.7% of the republic's population, while the ethnic Udmurts make up only 24.1%. Other groups include Tatars (5.5%), Mari (0.5%), Ukrainians (0.3%), and a host of smaller groups, each accounting for less than 0.5% of the republic's total population.

Ethnic
group		 1926 Census[26] 1970 Census[27] 1979 Census[28] 1989 Census[29] 2002 Census[30] 2010 Census[19] 2021 Census[25]
Number  % Number  % Number  % Number  % Number  % Number  % Number  %
Udmurts 395,607 52.3% 484,168 34.2% 479,702 32.1% 496,522 30.9% 460,584 29.3% 410,584 28.0% 299,874 24.1%
Besermyan 9,200 1.2% 2,998 0.2% 2,111 0.1% 1,903 0.2%
Russians 327,493 43.3% 809,563 57.1% 870,270 58.3% 945,216 58.9% 944,108 60.1% 912,539 62.2% 841,581 67.7%
Tatars 17,135 2.3% 87,150 6.1% 99,139 6.6% 110,490 6.9% 109,218 7.0% 98,831 6.7% 67,964 5.5%
Others 6,781 0.9% 36,794 2.6% 43,061 2.9% 53,435 3.3% 53,408 3.4% 42,558 2.9% 31,540 2.5%
1 210,052 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.[31]

Over two-thirds of the world population of Udmurts live in the republic.[32]

Religious groups
Religion in Udmurtia as of 2012 (Sreda Arena Atlas)[33][34]
Russian Orthodoxy
 
 33.1%
Other Orthodox
 
 2.4%
Old Believers
 
 0.9%
Protestantism
 
 1.4%
Other Christians
 
 5.3%
Islam
 
 4.3%
Rodnovery and other native faiths
 
 1.5%
Spiritual but not religious
 
 29%
Atheism and irreligion
 
 19.1%
Other and undeclared
 
 3%

According to a 2012 survey,[33] 33.1% of the population of Udmurtia adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 5% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 2% are Eastern Orthodox Christian believers without belonging to any church or members of other Eastern Orthodox churches, 4% are Muslims, 2% of the population adheres to the Slavic native faith (Rodnovery) or to Udmurt Vos (Udmurt native faith), 1% adheres to forms of Protestantism, and 1% of the population are Old Believers. In addition, 29% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious," 19% is atheist, and 3.9% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.[33]

The local Russian Orthodox Church is the Metropolitanate of Udmurtia, comprising the Eparchy of Izhevsk (founded 1927) under Bishop and Metropolitan Viktorin (Kostenkov) (2015), the Eparchy of Glazov (founded 1889) under Bishop Viktor (Sergeyev) and the Eparchy of Sarapul (founded 1868) under Bishop Anthony (Prostikhin) (2015).

Jews
Further information: History of the Jews in Udmurtia and Tatarstan

Udmurt Jews are a special territorial group of the Ashkenazi Jews, which started to be formed in the residential areas of mixed Turkic-speaking (Tatars, Kryashens, Bashkirs, Chuvash people), Finno-Ugric-speaking (Udmurts, Mari people) and Slavic-speaking (Russians) population. The Ashkenazi Jews on the territory of the Udmurt Republic first appeared in the 1830s.[35][36][37][38] The Udmurt Jewry had formed the local variety on the base of the Yiddish of Udmurtia till the 1930s and features of Yiddish of migrants "joined" into it (in the 1930s and 1940s);[39] as a result up to the 1970s and 1980s the Udmurt variety of Yiddish (Udmurtish) was divided into two linguistic subgroups: the central subgroup (with centers Izhevsk, Sarapul, and Votkinsk) and the southern subgroup (with centers Kambarka, Alnashi, Agryz and Naberezhnye Chelny).[39] One of the characteristic features of the Udmurtish is a noticeable number of Udmurt and Tatar loan words.[40][41]

Culture
Further information: Udmurt cuisine and Music in Udmurtia

Udmurt folklore is understood both in a broad sense (kalyk oner, kalyk todon-valan, kalyk viz - folk knowledge, folk wisdom), and in a narrower one (kalyk kylos, kalyk kylburet - folk poetry, oral poetry). In everyday life, folklore is not divided into genres, it is perceived in unity with material culture, with religious, legal and ethical aspects. Popular terms-definitions have incorporated the ritual action (syam, nerge, yilol, kiston, kuyaskon, syuan, madiskon), symbolically figurative and magically forming words (madkyl, vyzhykyl, tunkyl, kylbur), musical and choreographic behavior (krez, gur, shudon-serekyan, thatchan, ecton)[42]

Notes
  1. /ʊdˈmʊərtiə/; Russian: Удмуртия; Udmurt: Удмуртия, romanized: Udmurtija
  2. Russian: Удмуртская Республика, Udmurt: Удмурт Республика/Элькун, romanized: Udmurt Respublika/Eľkun

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