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In the 2001 Ukrainian census, 8,334,100 identified themselves as ethnic Russians (17.3% of the population of Ukraine); this is the combined figure for persons originating from outside of Ukraine and the Ukrainian-born population declaring Russian ethnicity.
Overall, the population of Russia displays strong genetic heterogenity. [11] [2] [12] Ethnic Russians primarily descended from the early Slavic peoples, which diverged from other Indo-Europeans, and early absorbed Uralic-speaking groups as well as Eurasian Steppe groups.
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]
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] The inhabitants of the Kuban, for example, have vacillated among three identities: Ukrainian, Russian (an ...
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
All of this was emphasized by the subsequent polities these groups migrated into: southwestern and western Rus', where the Ruthenian and later Ukrainian and Belarusian identities developed, was subject to Lithuanian and later Polish influence; [15] whereas the Russian ethnic identity developed in the Muscovite northeast and the Novgorodian north.