Statistical Registration of Russian Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Fas East from 1897 to 2010

The article reveals the specificity of statistical registration of the Russian Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East in the period from the census of 1897 and the latest all-Russian census of 2010. Methodological tools of censuses was analysed: programmes and manuals, dictionaries of nationalities and languages. Based on the methodological peculiarities of the censuses, data on the number of the Russian Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East presented in the censuses was systematised and integrated. The research results show that the lack of particular focus on the list, and, accordingly, the number of the Russian Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East explains numerous discrepancies in the analytical data for 1897–2010.