Gagauz people in Russia
Gagauz people in Russia (Russian: Гагау́зы в Росси́и) are people in of Gagauz ancestry in the Russian Federation, according to the 2021 Russian census there were around 9,272 people who identified as ethnic Gagauz in the Russian Federation. == History == The first Gagauz-Bulgarian villages in the Russian Empire came about in the mid 18th century, when Gagauz and Bulgarian people from the Balkans settled the Russian Empire, due to persecution and pressure from the Ottoman Empire.