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The Bessermen are an ethnic group in Udmurtia , which lies in the Russian federal district of Volga .

The Bessermenen are strongly assimilated to the Udmurts , but have been regarded as an independent group again since 2002 (before they were counted among the Udmurts). In the 2002 census, their number was found to be 3,122. According to this information, ten villages are exclusively inhabited, 41 partially by Bessermenen.

The entry in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , 4th edition from 1888 to 1890, reads as follows:
Bessermjänen (Besermianen) , a mixed people counted among the Tatars , whose origin has not yet been precisely determined. They live, 1,400 strong, in the Russian governorate of Vyatka under the Votyaks , from whom they differ in their Muslim creed . "

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