Udmurtia Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
federal subject of Russia, republic of Russia
About Udmurtia
Udmurtia is named for its native Finno-Ugric Udmurt people, who have inhabited theVolga Regionsince at least the days of AncientGreece. The majority of the Udmurts' recorded history has been devoted to fighting for survival and rebelling against their more powerful neighbors, the Mongols, Tatars, and Russians. But the Udmurts were perhaps finally subdued by the USSR, which purged most of the Udmurt nationalist intelligentsia and relocated large industries fromCentral Russiaand with them large numbers of ethnic Russians, who now comprise the majority of the region's population while Udmurts now are represent only about a third. The Udmurts are of special interest to anyone interested in paganism: Udmurtia is one ofEurope's last remaining strongholds of organized shamanism, despite its activ
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