 According to some indirect data, there were over four thousand Shapsug in Russia in 1926, but the Shapsug people were not enumerated as a separate group in Russian Censuses until 2002, when the population was recorded at 3,231.The Shapsug who live in the Adyghe Republic (mainly in District of Takhtamukaysky and District of Teuchezksky) were enumerated as an Adyghe in general instead of Shapsug in particular, as they are an Adyghe (Circassian) tribe, rather than a separate ethnic group.In District of Takhtamukaysky a reservoir which was built in 1952 was named after the Shapsug tribe () since the area was inhabited by this tribe for thousands of years and was considered to be part of historical Shapsugia, a region in historical Circassia.