The inflow of migrants from Russia's central regions to the "regions of new development" quickly turned indigenous peoples into minorities in their homelands. Between 1926 and 1935, under a decade, the share of indigenous peoples in the districts with indigenous populations in the northern parts of Russia fell from 56 per cent to 35 per cent. It further decreased to 15 per cent in 1970 and 4.4 per cent in 1989. They practised reindeer herding, fishing and hunting in taiga and tundra.