Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Tindi are an indigenous people of Dagestan Russia living in five villages in the center area around the Andi-Koisu river and the surrounding mountains in the northwestern part of southern Dagestan. They have their own language Tindi and primarily follow Sunni Islam which reached the Tindi people around the 8th or 9th century. The only time that the Tindis were counted as a distinct ethnic group in the Russian Census was in 1926 when 3812 reported to be ethnic Tindis.