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Own work, data taken from Results of the All-Russian Population Census 2020 page (Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года) on the Russian census website using Volume 5, Table 8 titled Population of the most numerous nationalities by age group and sex (Население наиболее ...
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 ...
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]
Russian is the fifth-most used language on the Internet, [101] and is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station, [102] as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. [100] Russia is a multilingual nation; approximately 100–150 minority languages are spoken across the country.
In 2006, there were approximately 1.2 million Canadians of Ukrainian descent, [19] giving Canada the third-largest Ukrainian population worldwide, behind Ukraine and Russia. Significant Ukrainian diaspora communities also exist in Poland, the United States, Brazil, Kazakhstan, and Argentina.
More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia began its invasion, according to the United Nations. And for many refugees, that has meant leaving family members behind.
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 .