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New York City is home to the largest Russian or Russophone population in the Western Hemisphere. The largest Russian-American communities in New York City are located in Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. Brighton Beach has been nicknamed Little Odessa due to its population of Russian-speaking immigrants from the former Soviet Union ...
Brighton Beach is featured in the Russian spy-comedy film Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach (1992). [80] The film Little Odessa (1994) is set in Brighton Beach. [81] In the film Maximum Risk (1996), starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, the main character faces off against the Russian Mob in Brighton Beach. [82]
Sean Baker's new movie views the south Brooklyn Russian immigrant neighborhood through a tender lens. ... News. Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports ...
Located in the southern-most part of Brooklyn, Brighton Beach, or "Little Odessa" as it has come to be known, is the most dramatic example of a "Russified" neighborhood (despite the fact that Odesa is a city in Ukraine). Information about visiting Brighton Beach, including recommended restaurants and sights, can be found here.
Anora "Ani" Mikheeva is a twenty-three-year-old stripper living in Brighton Beach, a Russian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn. Her boss introduces her to Ivan "Vanya" Zakharov, the 21-year-old son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, Nikolai Zakharov. Vanya is ostensibly in the United States to study, but prefers to party and play video games in his ...
Mir Yeshiva of Brooklyn, June 2020. New York City includes a sizeable Belarusian American population. The New York metropolitan area has one of the largest concentrations of Belarusians in the United States. Many Belarusians live in Brighton Beach and elsewhere in South Brooklyn, along with other ex-Soviet immigrants including Russians and ...
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