![]() ![]() The New York state's Russian-speaking population was 218,765 in 2000, which comprised about 30% of all Russian-speakers in the nation. Brooklyn became home to the largest Russian-speaking community in the United States most notably, Brighton Beach has a large number of recent Russian immigrants and is also called "Little Odessa". The New York metropolitan area contains by far the largest number of Russian-speakers. Like most Russian Americans, Russian-speakers are mainly concentrated in major urban areas. Distribution A pharmacy in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York with its name translated into Russian Historical population Census 75% of Russian-speakers speak English "well" or "very well" according to the 2007 data of the U.S. 92% of them have a high school diploma and 51% a bachelor's degree. Russian speakers are more likely to have a higher education degree than the national average. Also, some state and elections documents are translated into it. Since 2012, New York State institutions provide free interpretations from/into Russian. Russian-speaking Jews constitute about 80% of all immigrants from the former Soviet states. If they were allowed to leave, Soviet Jews had little difficulty entering the U.S., and many did so. The next big wave of immigration started in the 1970s. Most of those people were citizens of the USSR who refused to return to their country from trips abroad, so-called nevozvrashchentsy (non-returners). Immigration and Naturalization Service listed 14,016 Russian immigrants entering the country from 1930 to 1944. Russian immigration slowed in the 1930s and 1940s due to restrictions imposed by the Stalin government in the Soviet Union. Most of the newcomers were White émigrés. The 1920 US Census identified 392,049 United States citizens born in Russia the statistics from a decade before that showed only 57,926 Russian-born Americans. Millions also left Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Though many spoke Yiddish, most knew Russian. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries many Russian Jews migrated to the United States, fleeing persecution at home. In 1882 16,918 Russian speakers lived in the US, and that number gradually increased to 387,416 by 1899. Many Russian settlers returned to Russia, but a small number of them remained. More than 200 years later, in 1867, Czar Alexander II sold Alaska to the United States. The first Russians to land on the New World were explorers who reached Alaska in 1648. History Garment workers on strike in New York City holding multilingual signs, including in Russian, circa 1913 Russian speakers in the United States According to the 2010 United States Census the number of Russian speakers was 854,955, which made Russian the 12th most spoken language in the country. Most Russian speakers in the United States today are Russian Jews. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, many Russians have migrated to the United States and brought the language with them. The Russian language is among the top fifteen most spoken languages in the United States, and is one of the most spoken Slavic and European languages in the country. ![]()
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