A Russian census is a
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
of the population of
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
. Such a census has occurred at various irregular points in the history of Russia.
Introduced in 1897 during the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
, the census took place decennially since 2010 according to the
UN standards. Preparing and organizing the census is under the authority of the
Federal State Statistics Service
The Federal State Statistics Service (russian: Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Росстат), ''Federal'naya sluzhba gosudarstvennoi statistiki (Rosstat)'') is the governmental statistics ...
, branch of the
Ministry of Economic Development since 2017.
History
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Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
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See also
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Demographics of Russia
Russia, the largest country in the world by area, had a population of 147.2 million according to the 2021 census, or 144.7 million when excluding Crimea and Sevastopol, up from 142.8 million in the 2010 census. It is the most populous coun ...
*
Soviet Census The following is a summary of censuses carried out in the Soviet Union:
See also
*Russian Census
*Censuses in Ukraine
Notes
References
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Demographics of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the ...
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References
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Demographics of Russia