Russians inTajikistan are a minority ethnic group numbering about 29,000 individuals as of 2020 Census, representing 0.3% of the population.^[1] In1989 census, ethnic Russians made up 7.6% of the population.^[2] The population of ethnic Russians in Tajikistan is rapidly declining due to low fertility rates and emigration.

Most ethnic Russians reside in the capital city ofDushanbe. Regardless of this situation,Russian is provided with the status of a co-official language withTajik and a status of a "language of interethnic communication", and since Soviet times remains widely used on many levels of the society and the state. Both Russian and Persian (Tajik) areIndo-European languages, the former is aSlavic language and the latter belongs to theIndo-Iranian language family.

Russians in Tajikistan are mostly followers of theRussian Orthodox Church, under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of theRussian Orthodox Eparchy of Dushanbe and Tajikistan.

• Yuri Ponosov,First Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan from 1996–1998^[3]
• Alexander Shishlyannikov, the firstMinister of Defence of Tajikistan

• Vladislava Ovcharenko
• Kristina Pronzhenko
• Andrei Drygin
• Yuri Lobanov
• Sergey Zabavsky
• Katerina Izmailova
• Sergey Babikov
• Lidiya Karamchakova
• Natalia Ivanova
• Galina Mityaeva
• Anastasiya Tyurina

• Russia–Tajikistan relations
• Christianity in Tajikistan
• Demographics of Tajikistan
• Russians in post-Soviet States
• Dushanbe

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