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Geneflow between Asian minority groups and Russians contributed to the overall pattern of genome diversity across the different ethno-linguistic groups of Russia. [13] [14] The Russian gene pool, even taking into account contacts with Asians, is a typical European one. It lacks the Mongoloid contribution.
The 1979 census showed that only one third of ethnic Russians spoke the Ukrainian language fluently. [6] In 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued the decree on the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. This action increased the ethnic Russian population of Ukraine by almost a million ...
This page lists citizens of Russia who descend (in part or whole) from those of Ukrainian ethnicity or national origin The main article for this category is Russian people of Ukrainian descent . For more information, see Ukrainians in Russia .
Russia, as the largest country in the world, has great ethnic diversity.It is a multinational state and home to over 190 ethnic groups countrywide. According to the population census at the end of 2021, more than 147.1 million people lived in Russia, which is 4.3 million more than in the 2010 census, or 3.03%.
According to the 2001 census, there are 87,119 Ukrainians living in the city of St Petersburg, where they constitute the largest non-Russian ethnic group. [37] The former mayor, Valentina Matviyenko (née Tyutina), was born in Khmelnytskyi Oblast of western Ukraine and is of Ukrainian ethnicity. [verification needed]
Most ethnic Ukrainians live in Ukraine, where they make up over three-quarters of the population. The largest population of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine lives in Russia where about 1.9 million Russian citizens identify as Ukrainian, while millions of others (primarily in southern Russia and Siberia) have some Ukrainian ancestry. [78]
Rather than a multi-ethnic federation (as some including its Chief of State Józef Piłsudski advocated, based on the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth), it became a Polish-dominated unitary republic with large Ukrainian, Belarusian, Lithuanian, and German minorities. Nazi Germany invaded and destroyed it in 1939, starting World War II.
This category was created for people of Russian ethnicity who lived in Ukraine, and is a sub-category in the more general category intended to cover all topics about Russians in Ukraine Contents Top