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It seems to me that this is a bit far from the Khazars. These are the Udmurts, a Finno-Ugric people. They are the indigenous population of the Central Urals and the Kama River region.

> “The Reddest”: As far back as the 18th century, ethnographers referred to the Udmurts as “the reddest-haired people in the world.” Udmurtia remains one of the few places where this phenotype occurs with high frequency: