Russian Brazilians

Russian Brazilians (Portuguese: Russo-brasileiros, Russian: Русские бразильцы Russkiye Brazil'tsy) 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 someone with a Brazilian mother and Russian father, or vice versa. Today, there are close to 350,000 descendants of Russian immigrants in Brazil, many of this population are descendants from the Volga Germans that immigrated to Brazil following their expulsion from the Soviet Union. However the great majority are White Russians who arrived in Brazil right after the Russian Civil War in the 1920s.

Russian Brazilians
Russo-brasileiros
Русские бразильцы
Total population
340,000
Languages
Portuguese · Russian
Religion
Judaism · Roman Catholicism · Russian Orthodox
Related ethnic groups
Other White Brazilians of Slavic origin such as Ukrainian Brazilians, Polish Brazilians

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.[1] On the other hand, the São Paulo Immigrant Memorial puts the number of said immigrants between 1870 and 1953 at 118,600. Ethnic Russians were only a small portion of this number while the majority were Poles, Ukrainians, Germans, Ashkenazi Jews and Balts emigrating from Russian/Soviet territories.[2]

See also

References
  1. 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.
  2. Bytsenko, Anastassia (2006). Imigração da Rússia para o Brasil no início do século XX. Visões do Paraíso e do Inferno. (1905-1914) (PDF) (MSc). University of São Paulo.


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