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The '''old-settlers''' ({{langx|ru|старожилы|starozhily}}) are the [[Russians|Russian]] settlers of the [[Russian North]] (the [[Pomors]]), [[Ural (region)|Ural]], [[Siberia]] (the [[Siberians]]), the [[Russian Far East]] (the [[Kamchadals]]) and the former [[Russian America]] (under the name "'''Russian Creoles'''") in the 11th – 18th centuries and their descendants.<ref name="Starozhily">{{cite web |title=Старожилы |trans-title=Starozhily (Old-Timers) |language=ru |date=2017 |website=Большая российская энциклопедия [ [[Great Russian Encyclopedia]] Online] |url=https://bigenc.ru/ethnology/text/4163437 |access-date=2021-09-22}}</ref><ref name="Schweitzer">{{cite book |year=2005 |surname1=Schweitzer |given1=Peter |surname2=Vakhtin |given2=Nikolai |surname3=Golovko |given3=Evgeniy |chapter=The Difficulty of Being Oneself: Identity Politics of "Old-Settler" Communities in Northeastern Siberia |title=Rebuilding Identities. Pathways to Reformin Post-Soviet Siberia |editor=Erich Kasten |place=Berlin |publisher=Dietrich Reimer Verlag |pages=135–151 |isbn= |chapter-url=http://www.siberian-studies.org/publications/PDF/rischweitzeretal.pdf |via=Siberian-studies.org}}</ref><ref name="Wixman">Wixman. ''Peoples of the USSR'', p.&nbsp;180.</ref> Among them, interethnic marriages, borrowing words from local languages and adopting the culture of [[Indigenous peoples of Siberia|Indigenous peoples]] were practiced.

A principal part of them were [[Old Believers]] at least prior to the rise of the [[Soviet Union]].

== Subgroups ==

* [[Alaskan Creole people|Alaskan Creoles]] – Creoles of [[Russian people|Russian]], [[Siberians|Siberian]], [[Eskimo]], [[Aleut]], and other [[Alaska Native]] ancestry.
* Chaldons – Creoles of Russians and native Siberians;
* [[Kamchadal]]s – descendants of the native [[Kamchatka Peninsula|Kamchatkan]] peoples who assimilated with the Russians;
* [[Kamenschik]]s – Old Believers in [[South Central Siberia|Southern Siberia]];
* [[Karyms]] and [[Gurans (Transbaikal people)|Gurans]], – métises of mixing Russians with [[Buryats]] and [[Evenks]] in [[Buryatia]] and [[Transbaikal]]ia;
* Markovtsy – métises of mixing Russians and [[Chuvans]] in [[Chukchi Peninsula|Chukotka]];
* Pokhodchane or Kolymans – Russians in [[Arctic]] Sakha;
* Russkoust'intsy or Indigirschiks – métises of mixing Russians with [[Yukaghir people|Yukaghirs]], [[Yakuts|Sakha]] and [[Evens]] in Arctic Sakha;
* Tundra Peasants – métises of mixing Russians with Evenks and Sakha on [[Taymyr Peninsula|Taymyr]];
* Yakutians or Lena Peasants – métises of mixing Russians with Sakha.

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