Russian Argentines
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Russian Argentines are people from Russia living in Argentina, and their Argentine-born descendants. The estimates of the number of Argentines of Russian descent vary between 170,000[2][improper synthesis?] and 350,000.[3] They are mostly living in Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires.
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Total population | |
Unknown (by birth) + 350,000 (by ancestry)[1] 0.8% of Argentina's population [improper synthesis?] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Predominantly in the Pampas and in Misiones | |
Languages | |
Spanish · Russian | |
Religion | |
Majority: Roman Catholicism · Eastern Orthodoxy Minority: Judaism · Irreligion | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Russians · Russian Brazilians · Russian Uruguayans · Russian Americans |
Most Russian immigrants arrived in Argentina between 1880 and 1921, while a smaller number arrived in the 1990s. Russian movement into Argentina can be divided into five waves of immigration, the last three consisting of actual ethnic Russians, while the first one consists of immigrants categorized as "Russian" due to their origin in the Russian Empire even though a substantial number were not in fact ethnic Russians (but included substantial numbers of Volga Germans and Jews).[4]