The Russian minority in Poland (Russian: Русские в Польше, romanized: Russkiye v Polshe, Polish: Rosjanie w Polsce) consists of about 34,000 people.

[1] In the past – the times of the Second Polish Republic, partitions of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth – the number of Russians within Polish borders was much higher, over 100,000.

Changing borders (see territorial changes of Poland) and forced resettlement after World War II drastically reduced this number.

[citation needed] One of the most defining cultural characteristics of that minority is their Eastern Orthodox faith.

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