USSR ethnic composition 1979 | Statista

In 1979, over 52 percent of the Soviet Union's total population was comprised of ethnic Russians. Ukrainians made up the second largest ethnic group, at 16 percent. No other ethnic group or nationality made up more than five percent of the USSR's total population.

Ethnic composition of the Soviet Union's population in 1979

Characteristic	Share of total population
Other	3.19%
Estonian	0.39%
Polish	0.44%
Mordvinian	0.45%
Bashkir	0.52%
Latvian	0.55%
People of Dagestan	0.63%
Chuvash	0.67%
Jewish	0.69%
Kirgiz	0.73%
German	0.74%
Turkmen	0.77%
Lithuanian	1.09%
Tadzhik	1.11%
Moldavian	1.13%
Georgian	1.36%
Armenian	1.58%
Azerbaijanian	2.09%
Tatar	2.41%
Kazakh	2.5%
Belorussian	3.61%
Uzbek	4.75%
Ukrainian	16.16%
Russian	52.42%

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1991

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Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, CEE

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