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Russian American
Notable Russian Americans:
Zworykin • Rachmaninov • Stravinsky • Sikorsky
Turchaninov • Liontief • Rezanov • Seversky
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Total population

Russian
750,000 Americans
[1] 0.2% of the US population
Regions with significant populations
Alaska, North Dakota, New York City
Language(s)
American English, Russian language
Religion(s)
Eastern Orthodox

Russian Americans are Americans of Russian descent or who were born in Russia. Non-ethnic Russians in this group could be Jewish, Ukrainian, Armenian, or any other ethnicity who were born and grew up in Russia (Tsarist, Soviet, or post-Soviet) and speak Russian.

Distribution of Russian Americans according to the 2000 census.
Distribution of Russian Americans according to the 2000 census.

The Russian American or Russophone population is estimated to be around 3 million. Many Russian Americans are Jews. Many Russian Americans do not speak Russian, having immigrated to the United States more than fifty years ago. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000, 706,242 Americans indicated Russian as their spoken language.

Even though more then 2,000,000 people are considered Russian according to the census, de facto ethnic Russians are only about 750,000. The reason for those differences beetwen the numbers is the fact that many non-Russians consider themselves Russians because of them being Russophone.

Sometimes Carpatho-Rusyns and Ukrainians who emigrated from Galicia in the 19th century and the beginning of 20th century are confused with Russian Americans. More recent emigres would often refer to this group as the 'starozhili', which tranlates to mean "old residents". This group became the pillar of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America. Today, most of this group has become assymilated into the local society, with ethnic traditions continuing to survive primarily around the church.

Apart from such smaller settlements as Brighton Beach, concentrations of Russian Americans occur in Anchorage, Alaska; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Bronx, New York; Brooklyn, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Western Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Los Angeles, California; Northern New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; Sacramento, California; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; South Florida and Staten Island, New York.

Contents

  1. ^ http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~gstudies/russia/curriculum/intro.htm

Holy Trinity Cathedral, Chicago, an Orthodox church by Louis Sullivan.
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Chicago, an Orthodox church by Louis Sullivan.
Russian American communities
Russian American organizations


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