Oudmourtes

The Oudmourtes - also called Votiaks - are Finno-ugric people (Permian) alive in the basin of the Kama, an area of the the Ural in Russia.

Oudmourtes speak the Oudmourte.

History

Oudmourtes seem to be installed precociously on banks of Kama in this area of the Idel-Ural crossed by the the Volga, in the west of the Russian cities of Perm and Iekaterinbourg and in the east of Nijni-Novgorod.

Just like their Turkish-speaking neighbors Chuvash Tatars, S and Bachkir S and other people speaking a Finno-ugric language like the Mordve S and the Husbands (or Tchérémisses), Oudmourtes were subjected by the Horde of Gold to the 13th century, then were prone, in XIVe and XVe centuries, of the Khanat de Kazan.

The whole of these people passed under the Russian supervision at the time of Ivan IV Terrible the, in 1552.

All these people into major part were converted with the Islam before the annexation by Russia does not propagate the orthodoxe Christianity on their premises.

Demography

The population oudmourte would exceed 715.000 inhabitants in Russia, distributed mainly in two autonomous republics:

the Oudmourtie (42 100 km ²), which counted 1.619.000 inhabitants in 1990, including approximately 32% of Oudmourtes (497 000 people), Russian 58% of S (945 000) and 6,6% of Tatars
the Republic of Tatarie or Tatarstan, close to the first, which counts between 3,5 and 4 million inhabitants and where Oudmourtes account for 5,9% of the population, is between 205.000 and 235.000 people.

The capital of Oudmourtie is Ijevsk (642 000 inhabitants in 1990); the principal activity of this republic is industrial: one manufactures there engines, machine tools, construction materials; light industry is also represented (clothing, leather, pieces of furniture, etc).

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