Editing Circassians (section)

===Soviet policy===
[[File:CircassianinRu.png|thumb|upright=1.75|Remaining Circassian populations in historic Circassia, 21st century]]

Despite a common self-designation and a common Russian name,<ref>S. A. Arutyunov. [http://www.aheku.org/tags/%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F?d=2 "Conclusion of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the ethnonym "Circassian" and the toponym "Circassia."] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140215004220/http://www.aheku.org/tags/%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F?d=2 |date=15 February 2014 }} 25 May 2010. {{in lang|ru}}</ref> Soviet authorities divided the nation into four different peoples and applied four designations to Circassians remaining in the historic lands of Circassia:
*[[Kabardians|Kabardian]], Circassians of [[Kabardino-Balkaria]] (Circassians speaking the [[Kabardian language]],{{sfn|Всероссийская перепись 2010, Итоги}}<ref name="gks.ru">{{cite web |url=http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/Documents/Vol4/pub-04-01.xlsx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620143101/http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/Documents/Vol4/pub-04-01.xlsx |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 June 2013 |date=20 June 2013 |title=1. НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ СОСТАВ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ |access-date=29 January 2021}}</ref> one of two indigenous peoples of the republic)
*[[Cherkess]] ({{langx|ady| Шэрджэс}}), Circassians of [[Karachay-Cherkessia]] (Circassians speaking the [[Cherkess language|Cherkess]], i.e. Circassian, language,{{sfn|Всероссийская перепись 2010, Итоги}}<ref name="gks.ru"/> one of two indigenous peoples of the republic who are mostly [[Besleney]] Kabardians. The name "Cherkess" is the Russian form of "Circassian" and was used for all Circassians before Soviet times.)
*[[Adyghe people|Adyghe]] or Adygeans, the indigenous population of the [[Kuban]] including [[Adygea]] and [[Krasnodar Krai]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.etnosy.ru/node/55 |script-title=ru:Анчабадзе Ю.Д., Смирнова Я.С. Адыгейцы. |title=Anchabadze YU.D., Smirnova YA.S. Adygeytsy |language=ru |trans-title=Anchabadze Yu.D., Smirnova Ya.S. Adyghe |access-date=22 February 2015 |archive-date=26 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026110619/http://www.etnosy.ru/node/55 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Shapsug]], the indigenous historical inhabitants of Shapsugia. They live in the [[Tuapse District]] and the [[Lazarevsky City District]] (formerly the [[Shapsug national district]]) of [[Sochi]], both in [[Krasnodar Krai]] and in Adygea.