Russian American
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(3,163,084 self-reported 409,000 Russian-born) |
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| New York City metropolitan area,Alaska, California, Florida (South Florida), Pennsylvania, Maryland, Portland, Oregon, Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois, Texas, Washington | |
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| American English, Russian (Russian language in the US) | |
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| Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Belarusian Americans, Rusyn Americans, Ukrainian Americans |
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(3,163,084 self-reported
Russian Americans are Americans who trace their ancestry to Russia, the Russian Empire, and the former Soviet Union. The definition can be applied to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to settlers of 19th century Russian settlements in northwestern America which includes today's US states of Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington.
Some Ukrainian Americans, Belarusian Americans, Russian Jewish Americans, Russian German Americans and Rusyn Americans identify as Russian Americans.
The Russian American population is reported to be 3.13 million.
Many Russian Americans do not speak Russian, having been born in the USA and brought up in English-speaking homes. In 2007, however, Russian was the primary spoken language of 851,174 Americans at home, according to the U.S. Census. According to the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, 750,000 Russian Americans were ethnic Russians in 1990.
The New York City metropolitan area continues to be by far the leading metropolitan gateway for Russian immigrants legally admitted into the United States.Brighton Beach, Brooklyn continues to be the most important demographic and cultural center for the Russian American experience. However, as Russian Americans have climbed in socioeconomic status, the diaspora from Russia and other former Soviet-bloc states has moved toward more affluent parts of the New York metropolitan area, notably Bergen County, New Jersey. Within Bergen County, the increasing size of the Russian immigrant presence in its hub of Fair Lawn prompted a 2014 April Fool's satire titled, "Putin Moves Against Fair Lawn".
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