History of Russians in Baltimore
aspect of history
The history of Russians in Baltimore dates back to the mid-19th century. The Russian community is a growing population and constitutes a major source of new immigrants to the city. Historically the Russian community was centered in East Baltimore, but most Russians now live in Northwest Baltimore's Arlington neighborhood and in Baltimore's suburb of Pikesville.
Demographics
In 1920, 4,632 foreign-born White people in Baltimore were reported as speaking the Russian language as their mother tongue, though the figure probably erroneously included a significant number of Jews whose mother tongue was not Russian. Russian was the second most widely spoken Slavic or Baltic mother tongue of immigrants in the city, after the Polish language.
In the 1930 United States census, Russian-Americans were the largest foreign-born group in Baltimore. In that year 17,500 Russian-born immigrants lived in the city and more than 24,000 Baltimoreans were of Russian parentage.
In 1940, 14,670 immigrants from the Soviet Union lived in Baltimore, many of whom were of Russian descent. These immigrants comprised 24.1% of the city's foreign-born white population.
During the 1990s around 8,208 immigrants settled in Baltimore from Russia, Ukraine, and other countries of the former Soviet Union.
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