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The
Khakas, or
Khakass, are a
Turkic people, who live in
Russia, in the republic of
Khakassia in the southern
Siberia. They speak the
Khakas language, which belongs to the family of
Turkic languages. They have dark skin and eyes and coarse dark hair, and beards. Their face is wide, the cheekbones are not very prominent. The Khakass tend to be short, with the average male height being 162--164 cm. In some Khakass groups characteristics of the Uralic race are discernible.
The origin of the Khakas people is disputed. Some scholars see them as descendants of the
Yenisei Kirghiz, while others believe that, at the behest of the medieval
Mongol Khans, the Yenisei Kirghiz migrated to Central Asia, where they became known as the
Kyrgyz, the core nation of
Kyrgyzstan.
In the
17th century, the Khakas formed Khakassia in the middle of the lands of Yenisei Kirghiz, who at the time were
vassals of a
Mongolian ruler. The
Russians arrived shortly after the Kirghiz left, and an inflow of Russian agragian settlers began. In the
1820s,
gold mines started to be developed around
Minusinsk, which became a regional industrial center.
During the
19th century, many Khakas accepted the Russian ways of life and were converted to
Russian Orthodox Christianity.
Shamanism with Buddhist influences, however, is still common. In Imperial Russia, the Khakas used to be known under other names, used mostly in historic contexts:
Minusinsk Tatars (
Russian: минуси́нские тата́ры),
Abakan Tatars (абака́нские тата́ры), and
Yenisei Turks.
During the
Revolution of 1905, a movement towards autonomy developed. When Soviets came to power in 1923, the Khakas National District was established, and various ethnic groups (Beltir, Sagai, Kachin, Koibal, and Kyzyl) were artificially "combined" into one—the Khakas. The National District was reorganized into Khakas Autonomous
Oblast, a part of
Krasnoyarsk Krai, in
1930. The republic of Khakassia in its present form was established in
1992.
The Khakas people account for only about 12% of the total population of the republic (78,500 as of
1989 Census). The Khakas people traditionally practiced nomadic herding, agriculture, hunting, and fishing. The Beltir people specialized in handicraft as well. Herding sheep and cattle is still common, although the republic became more industrialized over time.
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