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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 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 ...
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.
Ethnic German people from the Russian Empire (1 C, 45 P) V. Volga German people (3 C, 32 P) Pages in category "Russian and Soviet-German people"
The Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland ("Territorial Association of Germans from Russia", "Homeland Association of Germans from Russia") is an organization of German refugees expelled from their homes in Russia to West Germany after World War II. The organization is based in Stuttgart, and it was founded in 1950.
The Volga Germans (German: Wolgadeutsche, pronounced [ˈvɔlɡaˌdɔʏtʃə] ⓘ; Russian: поволжские немцы, romanized: povolzhskiye nemtsy) are ethnic Germans who settled and historically lived along the Volga River in the region of southeastern European Russia around Saratov and close to Ukraine nearer to the south.
Heads of the federal subjects of Russia of German descent (7 P) House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov (18 C, 92 P) J. Russian people of German-Jewish descent (9 P) P.
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 ...