Quote Originally Posted by Kagemusha
I find it intresting that when people talk about the peoples living in modern Russia. Before the Slavic expansion.The Finno Ugrian people are always forgotten.
Russians have more intermixing with Finnic people than with the Turkic/Mongol. I read some genetic research about that.

Anyway, I agree that Finnic tribes lived in moder Northern Russia. This is written in Primary Chronicle of monk Kiev (all those Finnic tribes are mentioned: Mordovinians, etc.).