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Igor Pushkaryov was the city's mayor from May 2008 to June 2016; previously he was a Federation Council member of Primorsky Krai. On June 27, 2016, Konstantin Loboda, the first deputy mayor, was appointed as the Vladivostok's new acting mayor. [62] On December 21, 2017, Vitaly Vasilyevich Verkeenko was appointed the head of the city.
Siberia is a vast region spanning the northern part of the Asian continent and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia.As a result of the Russian conquest of Siberia (16th to 19th centuries) and of the subsequent population movements during the Soviet era (1917–1991), the modern-day demographics of Siberia is dominated by ethnic Russians and other Slavs.
During the 1880s Vladivostok's cultural life improved, and a music school at the Siberian Fleet Depot was opened. In 1883 the city's first newspaper (Vladivostok) began, and the following year the Society of the Amursky Territory Study (headed by Fyodor F. Busse) was founded. In 1887 a public library opened, and a professional theater performed ...
Inna Vernikov [a] (born August 30, 1984) is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the New York City Council for the 48th District.The Minority Whip of the City Council, her district includes the neighborhoods of Brighton Beach, West Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Gravesend, and parts of Midwood and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn.
Related ethnic groups. Overseas Chinese. Ethnic Chinese in Russia officially numbered 39,483 according to the 2002 census. [ 2 ] However, this figure is contested, with the Overseas Community Affairs Council of Taiwan claiming 998,000 in 2004 and 2005, and Russian demographers generally accepting estimates in the 200,000–400,000 range as of ...
Demographics. 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.
The first Danes in New York were sailors in the crew of Henry Hudson’s ship the Halve Maen, which sailed into New York Harbor in 1609. In 1675 lived at least 100 Danes in New York. In 1704 the Danes together with the Norwegians build a small Lutheran chapel near the intersection of Broadway and Rector Street. Danish immigration reached its ...
The boroughs of New York Cityare the five major governmental districts that compose New York City. The boroughsare the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough is coextensive with a respective countyof the State of New York: The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens is ...