Russian old-settlers
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The Starozhily are the descendants of the Russian settlers of Eastern Siberia in the 16th and 17th centuries. Most of them were Old Believers at least prior to the rise of the Soviet Union.
References
- Wixman. Peoples of the USSR, p. 180