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Russian Americans

Russian Americans
Русские американцы
Total population

(3,163,084 self-reported

1.0% of the U.S. population (2009)
409,000 Russian-born)
Regions with significant populations
New York City metropolitan area,Alaska, California, Florida (South Florida), Pennsylvania, Maryland, Portland, Oregon, Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois, Texas, Washington
Languages
American English, Russian (Russian language in the US)
Religion
Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism
Related ethnic groups
Belarusian Americans, Rusyn Americans, Ukrainian Americans
Russian speakers in the US
Year
Speakers
1910
57,926
1920
392,049
1930
315,721
1940
356,940
1960
276,834
1970
149,277
1980
173,226
1990
241,798
2000
706,242
2011
905,843
^a Foreign-born population only

(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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