Russian in the USAOlga PiekarskiMaria 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 Russian-speaking Population: 371

Anchorage Russian-speaking 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

ReligionsEastern Orthodox

Christian Jewish

Related Ethnic and National Groups

Related Ethnic Groups: Belarusian-American, Ukrainian-American

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)