Russia is BIG and full of native Asians

There are Asian Russians, Russian Asians?

What it's like being Asian Russian in 2025 and why you've never heard about us 🤨

(Chimka Travels) Dec. 2, 2025: Most people think all Russians look Slavic…until they meet me or others like me. I’m an Asian Russian, specifically a Buryat-Mongolian. My video about Asian Russians blew up with over 10 million views. So in this episode, I’m finally explaining: 💬

(This is Guzel) What it's like being non-Slavic Asian Russian

• Who Asian Russians actually are 🌏
• Why you’ve never seen us in Western (or Russian) media 📍
• Where we live inside Russia 💬
• Why English language creates confusion (“Russian,” one word = two meanings) 🏔️
• The Indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Far East 🇲🇳
• My Buryat-Mongol identity
• And comments like, “We got Chinese Russians before GTA6.”

By the end of this video, viewers will understand a part of Russia almost nobody talks about.

• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:37 Who are Asian Russians?
• 02:34 Russian federal subjects
• 03:23 Identity: Russian or Buryat?
• 03:45 Why people get confused
• 04:18 Why they’ve never heard of Asian Russians
• 04:37 Buryat-Mongolian or Buryat?
• 05:36 Erasure of the “-Mongolian” part during USSR phase
• 06:29 Why I don’t look Russian
• 06:50 Why I started talking about this
• 07:18 Taiwan’s “Russian Girl” stereotype — storytime
• 08:56 Future content and upcoming Mongolia vlogs
• 09:25 Ending and goodbye

Follow me: 👉 Instagram: chimka_travel 👉 TikTok: chimka_travels ❤️Support: paypal.me/Chimkas, coff.ee/chimka_travel 📩 For business inquiries: chimka.travel@gmail.com #AsianRussian #Asian #Russian #Russia #Sakha #Yakut# Yakutia# Buryat# Buryatia #BuryatMongol #Indigenous

Why is Russia so darn BIG?
(Johnny Harris) March 24, 2021: The story of moving east and just...not stopping.

• (Eli from Russia) Former USSR (Soviet Union) Russia's hidden gem in Far East: the Kuril Islands

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