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  2. Russian colonization of North America - Wikipedia

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    A 1773 map of northwestern America based on reports from Russian explorers. The earliest written accounts indicate that the Eurasian Russians were the first Europeans to reach Alaska. There is an unofficial assumption that Eurasian Slavic navigators reached the coast of Alaska long before the 18th century.

  3. Category:Russian communities in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Russian Americans - Wikipedia

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    The term can apply to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to those who settled in the 19th-century Russian possessions in northwestern America. Russian Americans comprise the largest Eastern European and East Slavic population in the US, the second-largest Slavic population generally, the nineteenth-largest ancestry group ...

  5. Diomede, Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Drone photo, 2018. Diomede (Inupiaq: Iŋaliq, Russian: Диомид, romanized: Diomid) is an incorporated town and is the only habitable area on Little Diomede Island.The island is located in the Nome Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. [4]

  6. List of U.S. places named after non-U.S. places - Wikipedia

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    There are many cities in the US named Florence, but this is the only one named after the Italian city. All the others were named after people. [10] Genoa: Genoa, New York [10] Genoa, Nebraska: Genoa, Nevada: Genoa, Wisconsin: Imola: Imola, California [5] La Verna: Alverno, Wisconsin [23] Lido di Venezia: Lido Beach, New York [57] Lodi: Lodi ...

  7. Eastern Orthodoxy in North America - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Orthodoxy in North America represents adherents, religious communities, institutions and organizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in North America, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Estimates of the number of Eastern Orthodox adherents in North America vary considerably depending on ...

  8. List of cities and towns in Russia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census , there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia. After the Census, Innopolis , a town in the Republic of Tatarstan , was established in 2012 and granted town status in 2015.

  9. Russian diaspora - Wikipedia

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    From the third of the Jewish population that left the area, roughly eighty percent resettled in America. There, many still desired to hold onto their Russian identities and settled in areas with large numbers of Russian immigrants already. Local populations were generally distrustful of their cultural differences. [3]