Jump to content

Russian Americans

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Shpakovich (talk | contribs) at 21:04, 8 May 2008. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Russian American
File:AmeRus2.jpg
Notable Russian Americans:
Vladimir Zworykin • Sergei Rachmaninoff • Igor Stravinsky • Igor Sikorsky
Ivan Turchaninov • Vladimir Yourkevitch • Nikolai Rezanov • Alexander Procofieff de Seversky
Russia United States
Regions with significant populations
Alaska, California (Los Angeles, Fort Ross), New York City, Chicago
Languages
American English, Russian
Religion
Ethnic Russians: Mostly Eastern Orthodox. Non ethnic: Mostly Judaism, also Islam.

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.

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.

Harward researchers stated that only 750,000 Russian Americans are ethnic Russians.[3]

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 translates 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 settlements as Brighton Beach, concentrations of Russian Americans occur in Anchorage, Alaska; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Bronx, New York; Brooklyn, New York; Queens, 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.

See also

References

  1. ^ "US Census Factfinder".
  2. ^ "Introduction to Russian Curriculum".
  3. ^ http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~gstudies/russia/curriculum/intro.htm
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Chicago, an Orthodox church by Louis Sullivan.
Russian American communities
Russian American organizations




References

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Russian_Americans&oldid=211113658"