Editing Russians (section)

==Ethnographic groups==
[[File:Вилково, Дунайские плавни 1962 г.JPG|thumb|[[Lipovans]] in the [[Danube Delta]]]]
Among Russians, a number of [[ethnographic group]]s stand out, such as: the [[Northern Russian dialects|Northern Russians]], the [[Southern Russian dialects|Southern Russians]], the [[Cossacks]], the [[Goryuns]], the [[Kamchadals]], the [[Polekhs]], the [[Pomors]], the [[Russians in China|Russian Chinese]], the [[Siberians]] (''Siberiaks''), [[Starozhily]], some groupings of [[Old Believers]] ([[Kamenschik]]s, [[Lipovans]], [[Semeiskie]]), and others.{{sfn|Alexandrov|Vlasova|Polishchuk|1997|pp=107–123}}

The main ones are the Northern and Southern Russian groups. At the same time, the proposal of the ethnographer [[Dmitry Konstantinovich Zelenin|Dmitry Zelenin]] in his major work of 1927 ''Russian (East Slavic) Ethnography'' to consider them as separate East Slavic peoples{{sfn|Zelenin|1991|loc=§§ 1–4}} did not find support in scientific circles.{{sfn|Shmeleva|1994|p=283}}

Russia's Arctic coastline had been explored and settled by [[Pomors]], Russian settlers from [[Novgorod Republic|Novgorod]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://bigenc.ru/ethnology/text/3157665 |author=Teriukov, A.I. |title=Поморы |trans-title=Pomors |encyclopedia=Большая российская энциклопедия/[[Great Russian Encyclopedia]] Online |year=2016 |language=ru |access-date=14 January 2024 |archive-date=9 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220909122639/https://bigenc.ru/ethnology/text/3157665 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Cossacks]] inhabited sparsely populated areas in the [[Don (river)|Don]], [[Terek (river)|Terek]], and [[Ural (river)|Ural]] river basins, and played an important role in the historical and cultural development of parts of Russia.<ref>{{Cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=L0Zk3tUQ1M4C&q=cossacks+old+believers&pg=PA62 |title= Warriors and peasants: The Don Cossacks in late imperial Russia |isbn= 978-0-312-22774-6 |last1= O'Rourke |first1= Shane |year= 2000 |publisher= Palgrave Macmillan |access-date= 10 November 2020 |archive-date= 6 February 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220206071147/https://books.google.com/books?id=L0Zk3tUQ1M4C&q=cossacks+old+believers&pg=PA62 |url-status= live }}</ref>