The Forgotten Peoples of Russia
Spreading across 11 time zones and making up one seventh
of the earth's land surface Russia and the CIS states
embrace over 127 forgotten races or nations today. The
western world knows little about them.
These nations profess three world religions: Chistianity,
Islam, Buddhism. Additionally these nations belong to
six ethno-linguistic groups: ALTAIC group: Mongolian,
Turkic; CAUCASUS group: Dagestani, North Caucasus; ESKIMO-ALEUT
group: Aleut, Eskimo; INDO-EUROPEAN group: Slavic, Baltic,
Iranian, Romance; URALIC group: Finno-Ugric, Samoyed;
Paleo-Siberian.
Together with indigenous believers IRR/TV has produced
first ever evangelistic TV programs in the languages
of these forgotten and mostly unreached peoples.
Many of the little known of the former Soviet Union
have never heard the Gospel in their tongue. IRR/TV
has produced and provided television programs into the
following languages: Avar, Adygei, Armenian, Azerbaijani,
Bashkir, Burjat, Chuvash, Chukchi, Georgian, Kazakh,
Komi, Kumyk, Lak, Lezgin, Mari, Mordvin, Tatar, Tuvin,
Tabasaran, Udmurt, Yakut, sign language.
Over 140 programs have been translated into sign language
for the 10 million hearing-impaired of the former Soviet
Union. Many congregations have turned to IRR/TV for
material for this silent nation. You may adopt a people
group!
