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The southernmost such post of the Russian-American Company was Fort Ross, established in 1812 by Ivan Kuskov, some 50 miles (80 km) north of San Francisco, as an agricultural supply base for Russian America. It was part of the Russian-America Company, and consisted of four outposts, including Bodega Bay, the Russian River, and the Farallon Islands.
Svoy (born 1980), Russian-born songwriter/producer for Universal Music Group; Max Terr (1889–1951), Russian-born pianist, arranger, bandleader and film composer [16] Tonearm (Ilia Bis), performance musician; Michelle Trachtenberg (born 1985), television and film actress, mother is a Russian Jewish immigrant [17]
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]
A decade-old quote by Donald Trump, Jr. resurfaced in a New York Times column over the weekend. "In terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross ...
After Russian America was sold to the U.S. in 1867, for $7.2 million (2 cents per acre, equivalent to $156,960,000 in 2023), all the holdings of the Russian–American Company were liquidated. Following the transfer, many elders of the local Tlingit tribe maintained that " Castle Hill " comprised the only land that Russia was entitled to sell.
These places in the U.S. are known to have large communities of immigrants from Russian Empire and the former Soviet Union, often accompanied by retail establishments. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The Russian diaspora is the global community of ethnic Russians. The Russian-speaking diaspora ... roughly eighty percent resettled in America. There, many still ...
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