Russian American
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A Russian-American is a citizen or permanent resident of the United States who was born in Russia. This may mean that the person is of Russian heritage but is also sometimes widely used to denote people of Rossiyan origin, i.e. Jewish, Ukrainian, Latvian, Moldovan, Armenian, Georgian origin who were born and grew up in Russia (Tsarist, Soviet, or post-Soviet), and fluent in the Russian language.
The Russian American or Russophone population is estimated to be around 3 million. 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. 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; Sacramento, California; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; and South Florida.
[edit] See also
- AmBAR - American Business Association of Russian Professionals
[edit] External links
- Google Answers - Info on Russian-American population numbers
- "10 American showbiz celebrities of Russian descent", December 18, 2005 article in Pravda
- Russian American communities
- RussianBoston.com - Russian Portal in Boston
- RussianBoston.net - one more Russian Portal in Boston
- RussianPhilly.com - Russian Speaking Community of Philadelphia
- RussianNY.com - Russian Community of greater NY.
- Russian Community of Chicago
- Russian Speaking Community of Seattle
- Baraban.com - Russian Americans Local Community Information Resource
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