Nenets (34,7 thousand) The main ethnic area is located in the Nenets autonomous district of the Arkhangelsk region, the Yamal-Nenet autonomous district of the Tyumen region and the Taimyr autonomous district of the Krasnoyarsk region. The language concerns to the Uralic group. It is subdivided into two dialects: tundrical, on which speaks majority of the Nenets, and woody. Nenets have the literature with the Russian alphabet bases. The traditional economic activity includes a deer breeding, a hunting, a fishery. Faiths: Animism and Shamanism.

Evenki (27,3 thousand)
The main ethnic area is located from the left bank of the river Yenisei up to the Ohotskoe sea and from a polar tundra up to the rivers Angara and Amur. The language concerns to the Altaic group. The traditional economic activity includes a deer breeding, a hunting. Faiths: Animism, Shamanism

Khanty (20,9 thousand) The main ethnic area is located in the basin of the river Ob. The language concerns to the Uralic group. Khanty are the most characteristic representatives of the Ural anthropological type, to which Mansi, Selkups and Nenets concern also. The traditional economic activity includes a hunting and a deer breeding. Faith: Animism.

Evens (17,2 thousand) The main ethnic area are some areas of Magadan and Kamchatka regions, Okhotsky area of Khabarovsk region and the northeast areas of Yakutia. They speak Even language ( Altaic group ). By the origin and culture they represent the northeast branch of Evenki. To the moment of their entry in Russia Evens wandered along the Okhotskoe Sea. At the 17-19-th centuries they were settled along the northeast part of Yakutia, in Chukotka and Kamchatka. The traditional economic activity includes a deer breeding and hunting, a fishery and the seal hunting. In the beginning of the 19 century they were converted in Orthodoxy, but have saved a number of the old faiths –Animism and Shamanism.

Chukchi (15,2 thousand)
Chukchi are the indigenous people of the Chukotsky autonomous district of Magadan region, live also in the north of the Koryak autonomous district and in some areas of Yakutia. They have their own language ( Paleoasiatic group). To a moment of their entry in Russia their traditional economic activity includes a deer breeding, the seal hunting, a fishery and hunting deers. Chukchi have saved his old Faiths (Shamanism, trade cults), the mythological epos.

Nanai (12 thousand)
The main ethnic areas are the rivers Amur and Ussury. Their number in the territory of the Russian Federation is 10500 persons, 2000 persons live in China. Speak Nanai language ( Altaic group). The traditional economic activity includes a fishery and a hunting fur animals.

Koryaks (9,2 thousand)
The main ethnic area is Koriak autonomic region of the Kamchatka peninsula. They speak  Koriak language ( Paleoasiatic group). Have the modern literature with the Russian alphabet bases. The traditional economic activity includes a fishery, a hunting and a deer breeding. Faiths: Animism, Shamanism

Mansi (7,6 thousand)
The main ethnic area is the river Ob. The language concerns to Uralic group. They are representatives of the Uralic anthropological type, to which the Khanty, Selkups and Nenets concern too. The traditional economic activity includes a fishery, a hunting and a deer breeding. Faithss: Animism, Shamanism

Dolgans (6,9 thousand)
The main ethnic area is Dolgan-Nenet district of Krasnoyarsk region. The language is the dialect of Yakutian language. The traditional economic activity includes a fishery, a hunting and a deer breeding. Faithss: Animism, Shamanism

Nivkhs (4,7 thousand)
The main ethnic area is the Far East of Russian Federation : Khabarovsky region and island Sakhalin. Speak Nivkh language. It is assumed, that Nivkhs are direct descendants of the most ancient population of the island Sakhalin and of the river Amur. The traditional economic activity includes a fishery and the marine craft. They have the settled image of life. Officially they were considered as Orthodox, but saved traditional faiths (Shamanism, the cult of nature, the cult of a bear).

Selkups (3,6 thousand)
The main ethnic area is Tomsk , Tyumen region and Krasnoyarsk region. They are subdivided into the northern Selkups, living in woodth-tundra, and thesouthern Selkups.
Speak Selkup language (Uralic group). They have the literature, based on the Russian alphabet. The Russian language is used also. By their image of life and culture they are like their neighbors Kets and Khanty. Faiths: Shamanism, Animism.

Olcha (3,2 thousand)
The main ethnic area is Habarovsk region. Speak  Olcha language (Altaic group). They have the literature, based on the Russian grafic. The Russian language is used also. The traditional economic activity includes a fishery and a hunting. Faiths: Shamanism, Animism.

Itelmens (2,5 thousand)
They are included in the population of the east part of the peninsula Kamchatka. Speak Itelmen language ( Paleoasiatic group). The traditional economic activity includes a fishery, a hunting fur and marine animals. Faiths: Animism, Shamanism.The large part of Itelmens assimilated with Russians.

Udegeyts (2 thousand)
They are included in the population of the Far East of Russian Federation. Speak Udegeyt language (Altaic group). The traditional economic activity includes a fishery and a hunting. Some groups had primitive agriculture. Christianity poorly concerned Udegeyts, they saved traditional faiths (Shamanism, the faith in spirits, the cult of a bear).

Eskimos (1,7 thousand)
The main ethnic areas in Russia are Chukotka autonomous district, island Vrangel. Live also in Alaska, in the north of Canada, in island Greenland. Speak Eskimos language (Eskimo-Aleut group). The traditional economic activity includes a fishery, a hunting marine animals. Faiths: Animism, Shamanism.

Chuvans (1,5 thousand)
This people does not exist nowadays. Chuvans assimilated with Chukchi.

Nganasans (1,3 thousand) The main ethnic area is Dolgan-Nenet autonomous district. They have the literature, based on the Russian alphabet. The language concerns to the Uralic group. The traditional economic activity includes a fishery, a hunting and a deer breeding. The traditional faiths are Shamanism, Animism.

Yukaghirs (1,1 thousand)
The main ethnic areas are Yakutia and Magadan region. Speak Yukaghirs language (Paleoasiatic group). The traditional economic activity includes a fishery and a hunting. The traditional faiths are Shamanism, Animism.

Kets (1,1 thousand)
It is one of the smallest people of the North. The main ethnic area is the northern part of Krasnoyarsk region. Speak Kets language. The traditional economic activity includes a fishery, a hunting and a deer breeding. Faiths: Shamanism, Animism.