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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.
In the late 1800s, there was a large influx of Jewish immigrants to the United States from Russia and Eastern Europe to escape religious persecution. From the third of the Jewish population that left the area, roughly eighty percent resettled in America.
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.
Joan Rivers (1933–2014), comedian, parents were Russian Jewish immigrants; Sasha Roiz (born 1973), Russian Jewish immigrant (born in Tel Aviv, Israel) Natalya Rudakova (born 1985), actress; Paul Rudd (born 1969), American actor of Russian Jewish ancestry; Olesya Rulin (born 1986), Russian-born actress and singer
The first Russian immigrants to the United States arrived in the end of the 18th century (one of the first immigrants from Russia was Demetrius Galitzen, a Russian noble who became a Catholic priest in Mount Savage, Md. [2]). Historians differ on the number and the timing of the 'waves' of Russian immigration.
"The American Civil War Through the Eyes of A Russian Diplomat" American Historical Review 26#3 (1921), pp. 454–463 online, about ambassador Stoeckl Jensen, Oliver, ed. America and Russia - A Century and a Half of Dramatic Encounters (1962) 12 popular essays by experts published in American Heritage magazine online
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 affirmed the national origins quota system of 1924 and limited total annual immigration to one sixth of one percent of the population of the continental United States in 1920, or 175,455. It exempted the spouses and children of U.S. citizens and people born in the Western Hemisphere from the quota.
[68] [69] Hispanic immigrants suffered job losses during the late-2000s recession, [70] but since the recession's end in June 2009, immigrants posted a net gain of 656,000 jobs. [ 71 ] Nearly 14 million immigrants entered the United States from 2000 to 2010, [ 72 ] and over one million persons were naturalized as U.S. citizens in 2008.