Ethnic Russians were only a small portion of this number while the majority were Poles, Ukrainians, Germans, Jews and Balts emigrating from Russian/Soviet territories.

In São Paulo, the community founded the Brazilian Russian Association (ARB) which seeks to rescue and preserve the culture of these descendants.

[citation needed] Between 1877 and 1878, 2381 German-Russians arrived in Ponta Grossa and settled in the Octávio Colony, subdivided into 17 rural areas, far from the urban center.

The families were divided into Catholic and Protestant groups such as: Pugas, Lago, Santa Quitéria, Alegrete, Papagaios Novos and Quero-Quero.

In 1958, the Ponta Grossa region received about 100 people fleeing the Russian Revolution and founded the Santa Cruz Colony.

Men, on the other hand, grow beards and adopt white shirts, long pants and a rope belt tied around their waists.

The initiative was encouraged by the government, as well as by the Secretary of Agriculture, under the command of Carlos Botelho, who from 1904 onwards implemented a policy of creating colonial nuclei in the interior of the state.

From 1905 onwards, the colony of Nova Odessa began to receive new groups of Russian immigrants, in addition to Ukrainians and Latvians, accounting for about 300 people.

In Vila Zelina, in the East Zone region, a large community of descendants of immigrants from Eastern European countries was formed, including many Russian families.

Subsequently, the region also received German immigrants and the colonies gave rise to the municipality of Campina das Missões, where approximately 1,500 people are descendants of Russian settlers according to information from the year 2018.

One of the first Russian Orthodox churches in Brazil was built in the colony of Campina das Missões in 1912, which, along with religiosity, also maintains the language, being taught to children.

Years later, the colony area was dismembered along with the district giving rise to the municipality of Primavera do Leste, in the state of Mato Grosso.

Initially, they developed family farming and later joined agribusiness, cultivating soybeans, as well as beans, corn, cotton and sunflower.