RUSSIAN AMERICAN

A 'Russian-American' is a citizen or permanent resident of the United States who was born in Russia or is ethnically Russian. 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.

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.
Apart from such smaller settlements as Brighton Beach, 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; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; Sacramento, California; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; South Florida and Staten Island, New York.

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See also

★ List of Russian Americans

★ Russian colonization of the Americas and Fort Ross

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★ AmBAR - American Business Association of Russian Professionals

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

★ RussianAtlanta.net - Russian Atlanta Community Portal

★ 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 Washington State and Seattle

★ Russian Speaking Community of Seattle

★ Baraban.com - Russian Americans Local Community Information Resource

★ VasinList.com - Russian Community and Classifieds

★ Russian restaurants in the USA
; Russian American organizations

★ Congress of Russian Americans