Russian Brazilians
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Southern Brazil · São Paulo · Mato Grosso do Sul · | |||||||
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Portuguese · Russian | |||||||
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Judaism · Roman Catholicism · Christian Orthodox | |||||||
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Other White Brazilians of Slavic origin such as Ukrainian Brazilians, Polish Brazilians or Belarusian Brazilians |
Russian Brazilians (Portuguese: Russo-brasileiros, Russian: Русский бразилец Russkiy brazilets) are Brazilian citizens of full, partial, or predominantly Russian national background or descent or Russian-born people residing in Brazil. The term can also refer to somomeone with a Brazilian mother and Russian father, or vice versa.
Fernando Lázaro de Barros Basto in Síntese da história da imigração no Brasil (1970) gives a total number of 319,215 immigrants from "Russia" (i.e. the Russian Empire pre-1917 and the Soviet Union post-1917) for the period of 1871 to 1968. A substantial portion of this number is due to ethnic Poles and ethnic Germans immigrating from the Russian Empire.[1]
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References
- ↑ Maria Stella Ferreira Levy. O papel da migração internacional na evolução da população brasileira (1872 to 1972). inRevista de Saúde Pública, volume supl, June 1974.