Besermyan

Besermyan
Regions with significant populations
Udmurtia (Russia)
Russia2,036 (2021)
Languages
Udmurt (Besermyan dialect)
Religion
Russian Orthodoxy, Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Udmurts, Chepetsk Tatars

The Besermyan, Biserman, Besermans, or Besermens, are a numerically small Permian people in Russia.

The 1897 Russian census listed 10,800 Besermans. There were 10,000 Besermans in 1926, but the 2002 Russian census found only 3,122 of them.

The Besermyan live in the districts of Yukamenskoye, Glazov, Balezino, and Yar in the northwest of Udmurtia. There are ten villages of pure Besermyan ethnicity in Russia, and 41 villages with a partial Besermyan population.