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Russia Germans can receive a more specific name according to where and when they settled. For example, an ethnic German born in a village in Odesa is a Ukraine German, a Black Sea German and a Russia German (the former Russian Empire). Alternatively, the Germans of Odesa belong to the group of the Germans of Ukraine, of the Black Sea, of Russia ...
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that about 3,500,000 speakers of Russian live in Germany, [5] split largely into three ethnic groups: ethnic Russians (Russen, Deutschlandrussen) Russians descended from German migrants to the East (known as Aussiedler, Spätaussiedler and Russlanddeutsche (Russian Germans, Germans from Russia))
This category is for articles concerning ethnic Germans in the Russian Empire, the former Soviet Union and its successor states. The main article for this category is Russia Germans . Subcategories
The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Russification policies and compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, large groups of Germans from Russia emigrated to the Americas (mainly Canada, the United States, Brazil and Argentina ...
German-Russian (German Russian) or Russian-German (Russian German) may refer to: Germany–Russia relations; People with multiple citizenship of Germany and Russia; Russians in Germany; Ethnic Germans in the old Russian Empire or present-day Russia: Russia Germans; Baltic Germans; Black Sea Germans; Caucasus Germans; Crimea Germans; Volga ...
There were millions of ethnic Germans living outside German borders, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, with the majority of people being migrants in Russia. The migrated Germans – referred to as Volksdeutsche – had lived outside of Germany for centuries. These emigrants had settled in the lands east of Germany between the 12th and 18th ...
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Russian Germans in North America are descended from the many ethnic Germans from Russia who immigrated to North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Russian Germans frequently lived in distinct communities and maintained German language schools and German churches.