Geneticists Reported A Huge Decline In The Proportion Of Russians In Moscow

• 7.11.2025, 20:15

The share of Russians who have been born in the Russian capital for three generations is only 5%.

The share of Russians in the population of Moscow is decreasing. There are more and more Armenians, Tajiks, and Kyrgyz in the capital of the Russian Federation, and there is a trend towards a decrease in the Slavic population. Such conclusions were made by the authors of the reports presented at the Scientific and Practical Conference with international participation "Genetics-2025", writes mk.ru.

Genetic scientists reported that the active influx of migrants affects the structure of the gene pool of the Russian capital and leads to a decrease in the number of representatives of indigenous ethnic groups.

In the opinion of experts, similar processes are taking place in other Russian cities with millions of inhabitants. A senior researcher at the Population Genetics Laboratory of the Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alesya Gracheva, noted that migrants show higher birth rates.

Researchers mapped birth rates among different ethnic groups and concluded that the highest rates are characteristic of families from Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

- The main population is a group of very mixed origin," Gracheva said. - <...> The proportion of individuals of Russian ethnicity who have been born in Moscow for three generations is only 5 (!) percent.

Experts believe that these differences in fertility rates could eventually affect the ethnic and confessional composition of Russia's population.