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The New York Tri-State area has a population of 1.6 million Russian-Americans and 600,000 of them live in New York City. [5] There are over 220,000 Russian-speaking Jews living in New York City. [6] Approximately 100,000 Russian Americans in the New York metropolitan area were born in Russia. [7]
After the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922, many White émigrés also arrived, especially in New York, Philadelphia, and New England. Emigration from Russia subsequently became very restricted during the Soviet era (1917–1991).
Pages in category "Russian-American culture in New York City" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Russian-Jewish culture in New York (state) (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Russian-American culture in New York (state)" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
[51] In the 1970s, the most notorious leg of the mafia was the Potato Bag Gang, [52] which served as a robbery gang for larger Russian crime syndicates in New York City. Marat Balagula was a crime boss from Brighton Beach who denies having any connection to the American Mafia or the Russian-speaking Mafia.
Russia dismisses the accusations. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the U.S. Justice Department began a broader criminal investigation into Americans who have worked with Russia's ...
A Russian court has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to six-and-a-half years in prison. (Alexander Nemenov / AFP - Getty Images)
Svoy (born 1980), Russian-born American songwriter/producer for Universal Music Group; Max Terr (1889–1951), Russian-born American pianist, arranger, bandleader and film composer [16] Tonearm (Ilia Bis), performance musician; Michelle Trachtenberg (born 1985), television and film actress, mother is an immigrant Jewish from Russia [17]