Russian in the USA
Olga Piekarski
Maria Liberovsky
Russian Demographics in the
United States
 Total Population:
3,163,084 (1% of the
total population)
 Russian-born
Population:
409,000 (0.13% of the
total population)
 Russian-speaking
Population:
865,710
 Raleigh Russianspeaking Population:
371
 Anchorage Russianspeaking Population:
1,277
Regions
Regions and cities with significant Russian-speaking
populations:
New York City metropolitan area, Alaska, California, Florida,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Portland (Oregon), Ohio,
Massachusetts, Illinois, Seattle
Religions
Eastern Orthodox
Christian
Jewish
Related Ethnic and National
Groups
 Related Ethnic Groups: Belarusian-American, UkrainianAmerican
 Related Nations: Russia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan,
Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan,
Azerbaijan, etc.
Russian Americans
 Joan Rivers (Joan
Alexandra Molinsky)
 Comedienne, actress
 Parents were Russian
Jewish Immigrants
(heritage – broad)
Russian Americans
 Mikhail Nikolaevich
Baryshnikov
 Dancer and actor
 Arrived in the US in his
twenties (L1)
Russian Americans
 Milla Jovovich (Milica
Jovović)
 actress and model
 Born in Kiev to a Russian
mother and Serbian
father, left the Soviet
Union at age 5
(heritage – narrow)
Russian Americans
 Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin
 Co-founder of Google
 Arrived in the US with his
family at the age of 6
(heritage – narrow)
Russian Americans
 Leonardo DiCaprio
 Actor
 maternal grandparents
from Russia
(heritage – broad or L2)
Russian Americans
 Mila Kunis (Milena
Markovna Kunis)
 Actress
 Born in the Ukraine,
arrived in the US at
age 7 (heritage –
narrow)