Grey Ukraine

Grey Ukraine (also Grey Klyn; Ukrainian: Сірий Клин, romanized: Siryi Klyn, also Сіра Україна – "Grey Ukraine"; Russian: Серый Клин, romanized: Seryy Klin) is an unofficial name for a region in Southern Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan, where mass settlement of Ukrainians took place from the middle of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century.

The Ukrainian settlement of Siryi Klyn (literally: the "grey wedge")[1] developed around the city of Omsk in western Siberia.

[citation needed] Historical Grey Ukraine exists roughly within the present-day northern Kazakhstan and southern Siberia.

[7][3] By 1897, Ukrainians made up 7.5% of the population in Akmolinsk Oblast, which contained Omsk and surrounding regions.

[8] Although the Russian Empire had tolerated expressions of Ukrainian identity, and the Soviet Union had initially adopted a Ukrainization policy in the region, by the end of 1932 the Ukrainization policy was reversed and the Ukrainian identity strongly declined.