Depending on one’s locality and bias, “the typical Siberian is a white person” may or may not ring true. In large cities people would seem predominantly white o

Depending on one’s locality and bias, “the typical Siberian is a white person” may or may not ring true. In large cities people would seem predominantly white or mixed. Going into smaller towns it is much less clear-cut, and further away you’ll find villages without a single non-indigenous resident (read: everyone is Asian-looking). In such regions indigenous languages have official status alongside Russian, which they are not mutually intelligible with. In my opinion it is entirely fair to illustrate an article about Siberians with a photo representing one of the many native peoples. Source: grew up in a region of Russian Siberia with less than 60% of ethnically Russian residents per last census, most of which from my observation concentrated in and around the largest municipality. Taking that number at face value is, of course, assuming that all of the indigenous people, many of whom don’t speak Russian and live in remote villages, were counted in the 2010 census and declared their ethnicity “correctly”.