Historical Russian Jewish population Year Pop. ±% 1897 250,000 — 1926 539,037 +115.6% 1939 891,147 +65.3% 1959 880,443 −1.2% 1970 816,668 −7.2% 1979 713,399 −12.6% 1989 570,467 −20.0% 2002 265,000 −53.5% 2010 159,348 −39.9% Source: [133][134][135][136] The Jewish population data includes Mountain Jews, Georgian Jews, Bukharan Jews (or Central Asian Jews), Krymchaks (all per the 1959 Soviet census), and Tats.[149]