Russian Communities Around the World

[ex-bluejuly.livejournal.com]

Do you know of a city or a town that has many Russian people/immigrants that the store signs are Russian, every other restaurants are Russian, and you hear people speaking Russian everywhere?

Brighton Beach in New York is one.

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[vyacheslav.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of Russian and Ukrainian people in Philadelphia.

[hockeyophile.livejournal.com]

Not only Brighton Beach though. I think Brooklyn as a whole has a definite Russian "presence," so to speak. I've seen many Russian signs even in neighborhoods that aren't really considered to have a large Russian community.

And even some areas of Queens have decent-sized Russian communities, specifically those neighborhoods in Queens that are on the Queens-Brooklyn border.

[beowabbit]

The Brighton neighbourhood in Boston, and Brookline (an independent town that is surrounded by Boston) both have very large Russian communities. I woudln't say every other restuarant is Russian, but you see a fair number of Russian signs -- maybe one in five stores or so in Brighton, a little less in Brookline. (In Brookline, Hebrew beats out Russian.)

Pretty much anywhere in Boston you might occasionally hear people speaking Russian on the street, but especially in those two neighbourhoods.

Oh, and I hear there are a lot of Russian people in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but I'm a-guessin' that's not the answer you were looking for. :-)

[raeyn.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the West coast! There is a notable prescence in San Fran! ^^

xox

[angry-sarah.livejournal.com]

Wow are there a lot of Russians in San Fran. You know it's a big community when you meet immigrants from other countries who have found themselves in little Russia learning Russian instead of or on top of English.
Also some parts of LA have quite a few Russians...There is a great deli in Long Beach.

[langwidere.livejournal.com]

There's a definite Russian feel near Denver, Colorado in Glendale. I used to have to ride the bus through there last summer and I probably looked like a tourist snapping my head back and forth trying to see if I could read any of the Cyrillic on the signs. ;)

[raeyn.livejournal.com]

Well, there is at least a strong enough Russian community to have a Russian Orthodox church, some stores and delis up and down Geary Street. And there is Cinderella on Balboa, which I liked a goodly bit!

(http://www.inetours.com/Pages/Dining_Archive/Cinderella.html)

Their spinach soup is to die for!

As for the LA Russian populace - I have heard something to that effect from my family out there, and have considered using my Russian to help me get a job under my grandmother (real-estate appraiser for Bank of America), or my aunt (who owns her own commercial real estate company!).

[raeyn.livejournal.com]

OOH! I forgot about the Russian population in the Dallas area! It's not very noticable, but I remember that when I was a little girl in elementary school, some organization arranged to immigrate lots of Russians (mainly Jews, I think..) to the Dallas area and out of the old country.

http://www.russiandfw.com/

A random memory on that - there was a Russian girl in my.. 4th grade class? And everyone wondered why she only had one pair of jeans! Of course, my Russian teachers explained the whole jeans thing to my class, so it made sense in a way. I don't know why, but that always stuck with me for some reason :)

xox

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

The World was the question, which is not really synonymous with North America :)

About one fifth of Israeli population speaks Russian.
There are large Russian communities in many European cities, the most notably in Berlin, Germany; London, U.K.; and Prague, Czech Republic. Paris is also a place where you hear Russian speech in the streets all the time, though (due to local law) there are few store signs in languages other than French. There is also a lot of Russian store signs in Istanbul, Turkey (because of extremely wide tourist and trade flow between Turkey and Russia,) as well as in other European (Cyprus, Greece) and Asian (Northern part of China) countries with significant trade and tourist exchange with Russia.

[linnapaw.livejournal.com]

There's a Russian neighbourhood in Chicago where the signs are in Russian and such, and another neighbourhood named "Ukrainian village" where some of the signs and such are in Ukrainian.

I live in Germany now, and I hear Russian all the time, whether I be in one of the larger cities (such as Munich) or out in the boonies. Go figure.

[xoutstars.livejournal.com]

mainly the north east though...

[ex-bluejuly.livejournal.com]

I heard almost 30% of the population in Latvia are Russians. Is that true?

[vyacheslav.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's right.

[xoutstars.livejournal.com]

*lives there , a whole corner away from a plaza COVERED with russian stores. Happens to also have a mother who owns a russian clothing store*

[rainbowbubble19.livejournal.com]

My Russian dentist in Ocean View area was quite impressed with my language skills after I came back from Saint Petes

[vyacheslav.livejournal.com]

Are you Russian yourself?

[vyacheslav.livejournal.com]

34%, thats not unusual though.

Ukraine-22% Russian
Belarus-13%
Kazakhstan-30%
Estonia-30%

[goodbyemylove.livejournal.com]

hey... forest hills/rego park in queens is pretty russian area... also haifa, israel has russian signs all over the place, lotsa of russians there... thats the only two i can think of that werent already mentioned

Russian area in LA?

[bhv.livejournal.com]

So is there a strong Russian area in LA? If so where is it? I live north of San Diego and I might drive up there for a day or so.

[asthik.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of Russians in small university towns.
You can hear people speaking Russian everywhere. In 1998 I travelled by bus from Detroit to NY, and heard Russian several times.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Yep, I've heard two girls speaking Russian in the street as far as Pullman, Washington: they were exchange students from Vladivostok.

[raeyn.livejournal.com]

Swankstar, that is! I just use it to piss of my friends who don't know it, until they convince me to join them in franco-babble, or broken spammish ^^

(Gotta know a little bit of "spanish" in Texas.. I really should hit up my mother for more insults.. she's got quite a few up her sleeve!)

xox

[ex-bluejuly.livejournal.com]

West L.A. and Hollywood area has many Russian population I believe. Not that all the signs are in Russian, but I've seen several Russian book stores etc. Santa Monica College has many many Russian students.

[xoutstars.livejournal.com]

most definatley

[vyacheslav.livejournal.com]

Ah that's cool. My friend lives in that area(she's Ukrainian) and I liked it a lot when I went there. I've never seen a Russian person here in south central Michigan.