Аннотация:AbstractThis article deals with one of the main problems faced by the languages spoken by the peoples in the Russian Federation – the reduction of their use in various social spheres and the dominance of the Russian language. This trend is even characteristic of those languages having acquired the status of a state language along with Russian as the state language of the Russian Federation in their relevant titular Republics. The existing statistical and census information shows the number of speakers of the Udmurt language is continuously decreasing while that of those speaking Russian and recognizing it as their native language is steadily increasing.Key words: Udmurt language, Russian language, education, mass media, religion.