English: Including the following officially recognized groups: Abazins, Avars, Aghuls, Adyghe, Azerbaijanis, Arabs, Afghans, Balkars, Bashkirs, Besermyan, Bosnians, Adjarians (subgroup of Georgians), Ingiloy (subgroup of Georgians), Dargins, Dungans, Ingush, Kabardians, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Karachays, Kyrgyz, Crimean Tatars, Kumyks, Kurds, Laks, Lezgins, Nogais, Digors (subgroup of Ossetians), Pakistanis, Pamiris, Persians, Rutuls, Tabasarans, Tajiks, Talysh, Tatars (excluding the subgroup of Kryashens), Tats, Turks, Meskhetian Turks (recognized as a separate ethnic group in the Russian census), Turkmens, Uzbeks, Uyghurs, Tsakhurs, Central Asian Roma, Cherkess, Chechens, Shapsugs.