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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]
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 .
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 ...
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]
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.
The Russian Federation is a multinational state with over 190 ethnic groups designated as nationalities. Population of these groups varies enormously, from millions in the case of e.g. Russians and Tatars to under ten thousand in the case of e.g. Samis and Kets. [ 1 ]