Russian diaspora

A significant ethnic Russian emigration took place in the wake of the Old Believer schism in the 17th century (for example, the Lipovans, who migrated southwards around 1700).

A major reason for young men specifically to emigrate out of Russia was to avoid forced service in the Russian army.

They were refugees, Soviet POWs, eastern workers, or surviving veterans of the Russian Liberation Army and other collaborationist armed units that had served under the German command and evaded forced repatriation.

[8] In Albania, the presence of Russians first occurred at the end of 1921, with thousands of former White Army soldiers settling in the nation at the request of Prime Minister Ahmet Zogu.

[59] The Soviet Union withdrew specialists from the country in 1961, resulting in about half of the Russian diaspora being forced to remain in Albania permanently.

A few breakaway sectarians from the Russian Orthodox Church, partial tribes of Spiritual Christian Pryguny arrived in Los Angeles beginning in 1904 to escape persecution from Tsarist Russia and were diverted to purchase and colonize land in the Guadalupe Valley northeast of Ensenada to establish a few villages in which they maintained their Russian culture for a few decades before they were abandoned;[clarification needed] cemeteries bearing Cyrillic letters remain.

[citation needed] In the late 1800s, there was a large influx of Jewish immigrants to the United States from Russia and Eastern Europe to escape religious persecution.

From the third of the Jewish population that left the area, roughly eighty percent resettled in America.

Russians (eluosizu) are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.

[citation needed] A few Russians also settled in the Korean Peninsula in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries.

But in Estonia and Latvia,[71] people without ancestors that had been a citizen of those countries before the Soviet occupation of 1940–1991, and who did not request Russian citizenship while it was available, were deemed non-citizens.